PAUL LAMB & THE KING SNAKES
"TAKE YOUR TIME AND GET IT RIGHT"
Their brandnew CD now out on Indigo
IGOXCD 531-Z (UK), IGOXCD531 (export)
Track list:
I'M A BLUESMAN
Real Audio G2, 177k*
NO GLUE IN THE WORLD
Real Audio G2, 186k*
LEND A HAND
CRAZY FOR ME
TUESDAY BLUES
GROOVIN'
LOOKING BACK
TAKE YOUR TIME
Real Audio G2, 224k*
DAYS OF JIVE
Real Audio G2, 363k*
I'M GOING DOWN
GOOD STUFF
AIN'T THAT A SHAME
MONEY WORLD
I DON'T WANT
THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG
OPEN UP
WHEELS
"Seventeen all original tracks for this new Paul Lamb album with new faces
to take the increasingly successful King Snakes into the new centurey.
Bass player Rod Demick takes his place in the rhythm section alongside
Sonny Below, the young drummer who joined the band eighteen months ago.
Rod has an impressive track record as a sideman and session musician playing
with the likes of David Essex and Van Morrison. Rod is an electric rather
than an upright bass player which has brought a more hard-driving feel
to the band.
On the lookout for a new lead singer, Paul Lamb zeroed in on the biggest
name on the circuit, the award-winning Earl Green who has fronted his own
band and shared the stage with Otis Grand. When Paul offered him the job,
"Earl said 'Give me two weeks'. I said 'You've got three days because we're
back on the road'. And he was in."
Earl Green's powerful vocals takes the King Snakes both to new heights
of urban soul/jazz sophistication and down to the depths of deep country
blues feeling. he was brought up on Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (check
out 'I'm Going' Down') while at the same time, you can almost hear the
swell of the brass-led big band in his phrasing and intonation. Earl Green
joined the band in January: he and the band spent an intensive few months
on the road leading up to the recording session, singing and playing together
to find the common ground so evident on this album.
Paul's vision for this recording 'was to try and go for that New Orleans
sound rather than the 1940s and 1950s Chicago jump blues thing' and the
King Snakes get straight into that groove with Rod Demick's 'Im A Bluesman'
followed by the Bayou shuffle of Earl Green's 'No Glue in the World' featuring
the piano of Steve Weston. There's plenty new on this album, but there's
always Johnny Whitehill. He remains a thrilling and versatile guitar player:
compare the styles on songs as diverse as 'Lend A Hand', 'Crazy for Me',
or 'Groovin''.
And what's left to say about the incomparable harp playing of Paul
Lamb? He brings out all the drama of the blues whether it's Rod's wistful
'Tuesday Blues', driving up the tension on the Jimmy Smith-influenced instrumental
'Groovin' (one of three tracks featuring Hammond organ), the pure rock'n'roll
of 'Days of Jive' or the sleaze of 'I Don't Want'. He also operates on
the other side of the glass, both producing and mixing an album with a
much cleaner, more spare sound than on previous King Snakes recordings.
Paul Lamb took his time and got it right. The end result? Good Stuff."
Harry Shapiro
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