Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
| Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions | ||||
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| Released | May 8, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 48:48 | |||
| Label | Hyena Records | |||
| Producer | Vernon Reid | |||
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Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in New Orleans at the Piety Street Recording Studios and released on the Hyena label in 2007.[1]
Reception
The
Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states, "The creative place Blood finds himself in his partnership with Reid is yielding great fruit. This album is the strongest of their collaborations thus far, and is a wild ride through blues, R&B, and hard-driving distorted and feedback-laced — yet utterly musical — New Orleans funk. It's a monster".[2]
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| Source | Rating |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |   [3] |
Track listing
- All compositions by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated
- "Survivors of the Hurricane" – 3:53
- "Sad Days, Lonely Nights" (Junior Kimbrough) – 5:59
- "Katrina" – 3:46
- "Let's Talk About Jesus" – 4:19
- "This Land Is Nobody's Land" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:18
- "Dead presidents" (William R. Emerson) – 4:40
- "Commit a Crime" (Chester Burnett) – 5:21
- "Grinnin' in Your Face" (Eddie J. House Jr.) – 4:36
- "There Is Power in the Blues" – 2:28
- "Backwater Blues" (Traditional) – 5:52
- "Old Slave Master" – 2:36
- Recorded at Piety Street Studios, New Orleans in 2006
Personnel
- James Blood Ulmer – guitar, vocals
- Vernon Reid – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
- Charles Burnham – violin, mandolin
- Hammond B3 organ, keyboards, mellotron, clarinet
- David Barnes – harmonica
- Mark Peterson – electric bass, double bass
- Aubrey Dayle – drums, percussion
- Irene Datcher – vocals (track 4)
References
- ^ James Blood Ulmer discography Archived 2009-11-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed July 29, 2010
- ^ a b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 27, 2010
- ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.