Ann Rabson with Bob Margolin - Not Alone
Жанр: Modern Acoustic Blues
Страна: USA
Год издания: 2012
Аудиокодек: MP3
Lossless: funny_horse
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: 320 kbps
Продолжительность: 00:41:30
01 - I'm Going To Live The Life I Sing About In My Song [00:03:50]
02 - Let's Get Drunk And Truck [00:01:59]
03 - How Long Blues [00:03:05]
04 - It Ain't Love [00:03:00]
05 - Guess I'm A Fool [00:03:40]
06 - Caledonia [00:03:38]
07 - Let's Go Get Stoned [00:02:58]
08 - Let It Go [00:03:47]
09 - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby [00:04:04]
10 - Anywhere You Go [00:03:27]
11 - No Time For The Blues [00:03:17]
12 - River's Invitation [00:04:40]
About
Rabson continues to forge her own unique path in the blues world with Not Alone, an album that features the guitar work and vocals of another low-key blues legend, Bob Margolin. It's not exactly an album of duets -- Rabson sings most of the leads and her piano playing is featured throughout -- but it's not entirely a solo effort, either, since Margolin only performs solo on a couple of tracks. What is clear is that both players are having a ball and their energy and good humor are infectious. The album is a delight from start to finish. Except for Margolin's "Let It Go" -- a bluesy rhumba marked by Rabson's rippling piano arpeggios and lyrics delivered in a wry drawl that bring to mind the philosophical ruminations of Mose Allison -- the tunes here are mostly familiar covers. Rabson reinvents the material with her surprising arrangements and on-the-money vocals. "Let's Go Get Stoned," the Ashford & Simpson tune made popular by Ray Charles, gets a downtempo treatment that celebrates excess with a gospel-flavored arrangement. Rabson delivers the Rev. Thomas Dorsey standard "I'm Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song" with a wry approach that manages to sound both spiritual and carnal, especially when she sings: "I can't say one thing and then do another, be a saint by day and a devil under covers." A boogie-woogie cover of Louis Jordan's "Caledonia" features Margolin's smooth, laid-back guitar work supporting Rabson's excellent piano work, while her ragtime reading of Hudson Whitaker's almost obscene "Let's Get Drunk and Truck" is a pure delight.
