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CD PICKS - MAY 2019 Big Daddy Wilson – Deep In My Soul (RUF)
Born and raised in North Carolina, this bluesman still remembers his early years as a real deep south country boy, singing in his local church. His epiphany came in 1979 when he enlisted in the US army, travelled to Germany and discovered the power of blues music that cast such a spell over audiences in local clubs there.
As a rising artist, Wilson was quickly embraced on the European blues circuit for his smoked honey voice, alongside some original songwriting that took in blues, folk, reggae and soul on the albums Love Is The Key (2009), Thumb A Ride (2011), I’m Your Man (2013) and Neck Stone Brew (2017).
Last year Big Daddy Wilson teamed up with guitarist Laura Chavez, bassist Dave Smith and producer Jim Gaines (famed for his work with Santana and Stevie Ray Vaughn), to record this latest album. It was recorded at Bessie Blue Studios in Stantonville and mixed at the legendary Muscle Shoals Studios in Alabama. Highlights include: the brassy soul of I Know; the heartfelt ripple of Mississippi Me; the rubber band funk of Tripping On You; the reggae flavoured I Got Plenty; the wah wah guitar driven Voodoo; and the slow burning, atmospheric Crazy World.
Where The Girls Are – Volume 10 (ACE) 120
The original Where The Girls Are album was released on vinyl in 1984 and now Volume 10, the final album of this series, has been released on CD. Rare treasures include Two Stupid Feet by The Shirelles; If I Fell by Reperata and the Delrons; Hot Spot by The Bronzettes (a dancefloor-friendly gem produced by Chubby Checker); Nothing Can Go Wrong by The Beas (a jangly nugget that may well have influenced The Bangles); Big House (a Phil Spector style opus by The Carolines from New York); and the previously unissued Top Twenty by The Delicates.
This collection comes with a well-illustrated 24-page booklet containing some fascinating facts about these generally unknown girl singers and bands.
The Pop Genious of Mickie Most (ACE)
Mickie Most was born Michael Peter Hayes in 1938 in Aldershot. After an undistinguished school career he became a sheet metal worker and cinema projectionist before developing a taste for popular music, frequenting the rock and roll clubs in London in the late fifties. He began as a performer with The Most Brothers, touring with The Kalin Twins, Eddie Calvert and a very young Cliff Richard. By the early sixties he had gone solo, playing guitar on a Gene Vincent tour, appearing on TV’s Thank Your Lucky Stars and bottom of the bill on a British tour with the Everly Brothers, Bo Diddley and The Rolling Stones.
No real success came until he began producing pop records for other people and he went on to become one of the most successful record producers ever, as well as becoming a TV talent show pundit and forming his own record company RAK Records. Mickie Most died in 2003, just shy of his 65th birthday, from a rare form of cancer associated with exposure to asbestos.
This very well put together 25-track CD, with a picture-packed 72-page booklet is the soundtrack to the life of Mickie Most, including amongst the many hits: Tobacco Road by The Nashville Teens; House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals (a number one on both sides of the Atlantic); Hi Ho Silver Lining by Jeff Beck; Is It True from Brenda Lee; Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow by Donovan; and No Milk Today by Herman’s Hermits.
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