I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Stone Cold , from Russ Green , and it's a driving blues rocker. Opening with Lint Redux , you are immediately in the middle of a swampy blues with modern effects. With a firm foot stomp by Felix Pollard on drums and Vic Jackson on bass Russ Green on harmonica and vocals really has the earthy feel. Giles Corey on slide gives the track great grease and Green's harp work is strong. Excellent opener. 12 Feet of Water opens with a terrific harmonica aria before grinding into a super drum driven romp. With the feel that I can only describe as Hill Country , Green delivers such soulful vocals, comforted by Joe Monroe on keys, this track just grabs you. Green's harmonica is like a shuddering wind blowing through you with the thumping bass of Vic Jackson and Vince Agwada on guitar. Excellent! Easy going shuffle, Nobody Knows has a smooth, supple melody with backing acoustic guitar, minimal drum work and melodic ha...
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Talk about keepin’ it fresh?
Oh yeah. This album does it. Popa
Chubby (Theodore Horowitz) is a bad man with an axe in his hand! I’ve met the
man and I believe this is the album he was always meant to do.
At first you will be impressed with solid blues and blues
rock songs with a touch of nasty funk.
Tracks 1 & 2, Goin’ Downtown and Good Thing fall into this
category. Next comes an instrumental
version of the Buddy Holly classic Bye Bye Love, the first of many tracks where
Chubby pays homage to his influential heroes.
There are rockers Dirty Diesel (a touch of Stevie Ray?) and
Motorhead Saved My Life and the slow gut-bucket Blues For Charlie . Then
there’s Slow Down Sugar which throughout includes a muted trumpet paying homage
to Miles Davis. Later this track breaks into a primitive rap reminiscent of
Miles’ Doo-Bop album that received terrible reviews but which fused jazz and
hiphop perfectly way back in the early 90s.
A couple top notch originals, The Catfish and Put a Grown
Man To Shame are not to be missed and the album concludes with the Robert
Johnson cover Come On In My Kitchen which is terrific!
But the crowning jewel in this excellent album is track 5,
Wes Is More, where Chubby channels Wes Montgomery! It’s basically a jazz shuffle in which Popa
Chubby displays more depth and diversity than anyone could imagine. Just
wonderful!
This is a GREAT album and has a little for everyone whether
your tastes run to rock, blues/rock, funk, hip-hop, or straight jazz. The
Chubby man offers it all up on this recording.
This album is EXTREMELY recommended by Stilladog. The more diverse your
taste in music is the more you will like this album.
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