Bman's Blues Report

I just received one of my favorite releases out of Big Legal Mess' catalog, Jimmy The Kid from my man Jimbo Mathus and if you haven't got this one, it's high time! Jimbo is an extremely meticulous and creative writer and one that I look forward to hearing from often. If you aren't yet a Mathus fan, he's played with everyone from Buddy Guy to Luther Dickinson and his music varies from hard country and bluegrass to blues and rock. His palette is full of color and originality. That being said, this release gives you a really healthy dose of solid country music, old style! The cover shows a graphic of a nude woman perched on a train... how can you get more homey than that! Opening with Good Old Time , a solid country track with a light taste of rock like you might expect from the original NRPS band. This track has authentic pedal steel flavor and none of the Hollywood sparkle. Excellent! Fallen Angel is a country soaked ballad in the style that you might expect fro...

I just received a cool new DVD/CD which featured a documentary about a real music outlaw. This documentary by Robert Gordon and Paule Duane feature real live footage of a wild man with a wild past. Jerry McGill had recorded with Sam Phillips Sun Records in 1959 and been the road manager for Waylon Jennings under the name of Curtis Black. This is the story who lived the life of a real outlaw, serving prison time, swinging a gun around, robbing and thieving. I knew a man like this once in my life (but without the gun) and as stated by Robert Gordon, historian and film maker, someone who I may not have wanted in my house, but someone I was glad was in my life. This is not a dry, dusty, fluffy documentary with a lot of pretty scenery but the real time documentation of a 70 year old man who has not at all mellowed, full of most everything and ready to spring at the whisk of a mouse whisker. This is a documentary about music but this is really a healthy slice of life and one that will like...