Bman's Blues Report

 I just had the opportunity to review the most recent release, Men Are Like Potato Chips , by Anni Piper and it's a solid blues rocker. Opening with Devil Bride , Brian Foxworth really set a solid drum rhythm giving Anni Piper on vocal and bass a great platform for her chugging rocker. Ted Swanson   lays in some nicely stylized guitar work and Jimi Bott rounds out the band on percussion. Sassy, title track, Men Are Like Potato Chips , has a vintage blues style lead by Chris Shuttleworth on tuba and Steve Kerin on keys giving the full range to Piper on lead vocal. I do like  Shuttleworth's tuba solo on this one. Cheetah , is my favorite track on the release is tasty guitar work by Swanson, and strong drum beat by Foxworth, John Dover contributing a tight trumpet lead and of course smooth lead vocal by Piper. Thunderous drums by Foxworth open Match With A Sasquatch rocking with Piper's vocals and Tim Langford and the track picks up a hot James Brown funky drum rhyth...

I just received Broken Halo , the newest solo release from Tim Langford . Langford, best known as the guitar player with the Taildraggers, has put together a very interesting solo project using acoustic guitar, dobro, tenor Uke and harmonica along with electric bass and electronic drums. The recording opens with the very haunting La Llorona , an original song based upon a Hispanic legend of a woman who drowns her children to be with the man she loves, only to be rejected. She ultimately commits suicide and prevented from entering heaven, forced to walk the earth in search of her children. This is a great song.Particularly nice slide work. Shaking A Cup is a light acoustic boogie tribute to the homeless in the street. Cool guitar riffs throughout. You Hide It Well is a straight up acoustic blues tune with slide dobro. Princeville Serenade is another acoustic duet with uke and slide dobro. Langford seems to have a great formula for pulling strong melody and feeling from this pairin...