battle of the blues

Various Artists (from the album Battle of the Blues: Chicago vs Oakland available on Delta Roots Records)
Title headlines aside, in the Battle of the Blues there are no losers. Gathering a strong showing of independent Soul and Blues artists from his time in the Bay Area, Twist Turner (drummer, songwriter, producer) presents the album with some of the talent he heard when he returned to Chicago after six years on the west coast. Battle of the Blues: Chicago vs Oakland showcases California grown Blues with the Pacific breeze guitar licks of Freddie Roulette in “Red Tide” while the lights go low to late night blue when Nat Bolden meets an after-hours drinking buddy in “Good Morning Mr. Blues” and bassman Aldwin London fronts the band on vocals for “Funny How Time Slips Away”.
 
Bringing a Blues shout from a homebase that runs from Sacramento through the San Joaquin Valley, Mz Sumac sets the standard, and the tone, with “Broke Ass Man”. The ‘Soul Keeper’ of Chicago, Gerald McClendon, wards off the winter chill of a lover with the warm fires of smooth R&B in “Cold in the Streets” joining fellow Chicagoan Gospel Bluesman Emery Williams Jr. (“Mama Don’t Weep”) and Mississippi-born, Chicago-based James Newman as he tells his story with words and music in “Me and My Guitar”. A stomping beat is the call for Battle of the Blues: Chicago vs Oakland to launch an attack with some Bay Area bump and grind provided by Country Pete McGill in “Hoochie Coochie Mama”.
 
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