Black Shuck Records artist: Big Bill Morganfield - Blues With A Mood - New Release Review

I just received the new release, Blues With A Mood, by Big Bill Morganfield and it's quite good. Opening with Muddy's Look At What You Done, Morganfield wastes no time at all getting into a cool Chicago groove. Featuring Morganfield on vocal, Steve Guyger this is a great track. Havin' Fun is a slower number along the lines of How Long Blues. Augie Meyers plays a very nice piano piece on this and is joined by Colin Linden with some cool acoustic guitar work. Money's Gettin' Cheaper opens with Eddie Taylor Jr. on a real sweet T-Bone style guitar solo and Morganfield delivers on a real nice Texas style loping blues. This is a real cool swing blues track. Willie Dixon's Ooh Wee provides a nice platform for Big Bill's vocals and the strong harp attack of Guyger who really does a nice job on this track. No Butter For Miy Grits is a swampy old style track with nice slide work from Linden and adds harp work from Richard Doc Malone. A story telling style track, there is a lot texture in this track and Tim Mookie Brill and Chuck Cotton on drums really hold it tight. Tight Things, a Latin rhythm blues track again finds Linden playing some really cool guitar riffs with Cottons on tom percussion and backing by Jim Horn on Sax. Devil At My Door has a very traditional Chicago sound when the delta was just creepin' in. I really like this track. A lot of old dirt on this track. I think that this is Morganfield's best vocal and writing effort on this release. Malone brings up the heat with some real smokey harp riffs. Another Lonely Night is a hot swing number which is really well balanced. Taylor plays a nice guitar solo early in the track, followed closely by horn on sax. Morganfield finds the fretboard for a solo on this track as well and the crew is rockin'. Hot Love is another track which oozes Chicago blues. Morganfield takes a nice guitar solo on this track and his vocals are spot on. Laying in the groove Taylor rips out another great guitar solo on this track and Meyers plays some cool piano as well. Ending with Son Of The Blues, a very early John Lee Hooker like track, Morganfield really conjures the sounds of the fathers. This is a great track due to the vocal styling as well as all of the individual sounds added by the musicians. The piano and slide work are just perfect. Great track!

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