Bman's Blues Report

I've been listening to the newest release, Live Long Day by Willie McBlind and I have to say it's not like anything else that I have heard in years. Fronted by the worlds leading harmonic guitarist, Jon Carter, and vocalist, Babe Borden and rounded out with Mat Fieldes on bass and Lorne Watson on drums. This cd pays tribute to the train in a journey. I don't need to tell you that when the liner notes starts to describe the instruments as 64 tone Just intonation and 12 tone Ultra Plus that you're about to hear something where the artists take the instrumentation fairly seriously. The cd is made up of 9 original tracks and one Robert Johnson track (Love In Vain). It is going to be difficult for me to describe in great detail what I am hearing so my best shot is to just give you impressions that I get as I listen. As stated earlier the instrumentation is a large part of the composition and there are powerful infusions of vocal input that remind me of everything from ...