I just received the newest release from Cleopatra Records,
A Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival. Opening is a rousing
Fortunate Son with
Mike Zito and Sonny Landreth on slide guitar. These guys tear it up...nuf said!
The Mynabirds are up next with
Bad Moon Rising, a female interpretation of the track sounding like a blend of U2 and Crissy Hines with a Bo Diddley rhythm.
Proud Mary is covered by
Blitzen Trapper. An easy rocker with light drums, vocals, a few tidy guitar riffs and keys.
Down On The Corner is covered by
Spirit Family Reunion with a solid Cajun flavor. A raspy but solid lead vocalist, nicely blended backing vocals and accordion cover most of the melody with addition of banjo and harmonica as well as assorted percussion instruments.
Have You Seen The Rain is covered by
Dead Man Winter. This is a simple vocal track with minimal instrumentation (tambourine and acoustic guitar) and I think that it's one of the purest tracks on the release.
Looking Out My Back Door is covered by
LeRoux and has a solid New Orleans feel with upfront snare drumming. Nicely blended vocals over this funky march is really quite pleasant and key and guitar solos are shot but tight.
Duke Robillard covers
Who'll Stop The Rain bringing along a troop of heavy hitters like
Bruce Bears,
Brad Hallen and
Mark Teixeira. Duke takes the lead vocal and keeps fretwork to mostly nice atmospheric chords with a short break. Bears plays a real nice solo punching up the track.
South Memphis String Band featuring heavy hitters
Jimbo Mathus (drums and vocals),
Alvin Youngblood Hart (guitar and vocal)and
Luther Dickinson on bass takes the hard line rick road and sets a cool stage for slide work over the hot rocker
Up Around The Bend.
Susie Q gets a bluesy lope by
Will Wilde. A nice blues rocker with hot harp work and relentless rhythm guitar and drums makes this another contender for top track.
Run Through The Jungle gets a real bluesy rock version that is pure
Smokin' Joe Kubek & Bnois King. Another hot track, Kubek lays down some nice riffs here.
Kirk Fletcher covers
Green River with some of the richest guitar work on the release. Fletcher definitely knows his way around the guitar and spares no mercy here! Wrapping the release is
Born On The Bayou covered by
Trampled Under Foot. The dimension of a solid female vocalist in Danielle Schnebelen over what is other wise a solid Creedence mix makes for a cool wrap of a cool release.
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