What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

An exceptional talent, IMHO. I could listen to him all day, and probably will. Shai Maestro - Angelo.

[video=youtube;gqIqX3JMhKU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqIqX3JMhKU[/video]

[SteveO]

Legendary Canadian jazz guitarist Ed Bickert!

[video=youtube;bxPBvDYVX2w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPBvDYVX2w[/video]

[jazzboCR]

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Heavy Blues Chevy "Blues N'Jected" is an interesting and very good CD put out by a band with a serious sense of humor. The liner notes are as much fun as the CD with liner notes such as: "This music was recorded and mixed by M. Dycus in a bedroom on good old analog equipment. It was not stolen, he has receipts for everything." You know that this is a band that does not take themselves too seriously.
What you do get though is ten good blues tracks that get better the more you listen to the CD. The CD does not have a highly produced sound and sounds very live which is what the band was looking for.

All ten songs were written by the band. The style of music is pretty much rockin blues with excursions into swing, and slow blues. Great guitar work is all over this CD from the tasteful slow blues licks of "The Walk" and "Towed Away," to the Texas Blues style of "Old Enough To Know Better," the swing sound of "She Likes To Boogie Real Low." "Old Enough To Know Better" is a solid blues shuffle that harkens to Austin Texas blues without sounding like a Stevie Ray Vaughan ripoff. "The Walk," a slow blues number, has some unusual guitar licks that you do not expect from the typical slows blues. Vocally the band can sing as well as they play their instruments.

Bottom line...I would recommend this CD to anyone who likes Austin Texas blues, or just rockin blues or even someone who just likes guitar based blues. It works on all levels and works very well. It's a keeper.

Mick Dycus - Lead & Backing Vocals, Lead & Rhythm Guitars
Kendall Rezabek - Bass Guitar, backup vocals, consultant
Scott Young - Drums, backup vocals, percussion, accountant
Jeff McGuire - electric rhythm and electric lead guitar trade-offs
Robert Bone - Electric Rhythm guitar track 1

iTunes and Rhapsody both have this CD for download. I could not find any of these on You Tube so I put them where anyone interested can hear them.

https://sites.google.com/a/wildblue.net/...home/files

Times have changed; these are now available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhxafkhDpLk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5n1Z73WbC0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYgnNxSfK_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEUa8-m6Sjs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf-U2ZgwvkE
Couple of covers not on the disc: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2DXRn0loY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLogtOkJb5w
Greatly entertaining group. Bjgeiger hit for 6 with this.

[jazzboCR]

Superb Jazz Album....I also thank Matt for putting it back on my radar !!!!! Now if I could only find Cumbia Jazz fusion by Sir Mingus ????

Answered prayers? Or have you gotten it since? http://www.amazon.com/Cumbia-Jazz-Fusion...B0000033DN

[jazzboCR]

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Clear Blue Flame
Delta Moon
2007
Blues

http://deltamoon.bandcamp.com/album/clear-blue-flame

01 Clear Blue Flame
02 Blind Spot
03 Money Changes Everything
04 Trouble in the Home
05 Jessie Mae
06 Cool Your Jets
07 Life's a Song
08 Stranger in My Hometown
09 Lap Dog
10 I'm a Witness
11 You Done Told Everybody

"The dual slide guitars of Delta Moon carry the listener deep into the heart of the American South, where sinuous Mississippi blues meets the gritty backwoods twang of Appalachia and winds around a rock-steady beat like kudzu on a barbwire fence."

A new posted on Aug 25, 2011
Blues in a Bottle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9OYJbgohHw

One my favorite blues bands.

AMG likes the puppy stuffin's out of this disc. They've put out 9 albums in 14 years (though this was the first without their female lead). Check the review: http://www.allmusic.com/album/clear-blue...0000782770 Some tunes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDAXSMgFz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svuy51ZrJVg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32_oRceYJl8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEsc7goz76A
BONUS: complete show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agknyL8IS3Y

[SteveO]

I found it since Jazz!!!! But thanks very much for the find man!

Answered prayers? Or have you gotten it since? http://www.amazon.com/Cumbia-Jazz-Fusion...B0000033DN

[SteveO]

This guy is great! http://www.discogs.com/artist/720019-Denzal-Sinclaire


[video=youtube;6vWfb_jNVu0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWfb_jNVu0[/video]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB3BqwrwWwM - The way you look tonight!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9se0nFHFXY - Never let me go!

[jazzboCR]

I agree that Mr. Sinclaire is a pleasant singer but to call him a jazz singer is to render the term meaningless. I hear no effort on his part to immerse himself in the lyric, to dig deep to find the inner being of the song nor his conception of it. He's a cut or two above the current torrent of tepid tenors but it's jazzy pop--no more. It's a deep insult to those who are jazz singers, both past (Mel Torme) or present (Mark Murphy. Kevin Mahogany, Mose Allison, Willie Nelson on occasion or to venture to the far shores of the outre, Leon Thomas). It is also an egregious back-slap at current female jazz singers (Anne Hampton Callaway, Cassandra Wilson, Bettye Lavette of late, Rebecca Parris and so many others). The only part of those 2 clips that's jazz is the band. I have a kvetch or 2 on some of their selections but look here for the Real Deal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_male_jazz_singers

[SteveO]

Thanks for your critique Jazz ! He's in that Michael Buble stable...poppy jazz ...the actual song I heard by him " I Found Love" is not in the Buble Connick Jr. style! It isn't available on YouTube, the song selections were not really representative of why I like him!..that's how I went...I still enjoy his voice and it fits into this sub forum music wise!

[Music Head]

Recording History

studio albums - 13
live albums - 4
compilation albums - 6
singles - 38
videos - 10

Grammy Awards - 3

from my library (cd)



Producer: Arif Marden

8th album - #45 US, #55 UK, #51 AUS, #69 CAN
Singles - To Deserve You
..........In This Life

Must have been in the mood for this one, surprising myself once again. Nothing I don't like and 5 love tracks. Bette too 5 years off after her
previous best selling Some Peoples Lives. Looks like this is her third best selling album, going Platinum here, but it took 5 years of sales to
reach that. No singles helped it though, just her name I would say. I see that To Deserve You was remixed as a dance track and charted on that
side. Don't even want to listen to that, it would ruin it for me. This was her last album for Atlantic after spending her entire career there.
Bette has only had 4 albums since this and only 1 has even gone gold. The diva is memorable if only for Wind Beneath My Wings. Another artist I
should have a cd compilation of.

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - It's Too Late
Best Track - I Know This Town

Track Listing

1. I Know This Town ***
audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=618WRDjmm7E
2. In This Life ** excellent performance
live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5fcfdXp9Ac
3. Bottomless **
audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWgiKo83c2E
4. To Comfort You **
live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMuOIns0JQY
5. To Deserve You *** not the dance club version
live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOadMCtWBpk
6. The Last Time **
audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3PvC4yRNak
7. Bed of Roses **
live - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZREVdPKlsQ
8. The Perfect Kiss ***
9. As Dreams Go By ***
10. It's Too Late **
11. I Believe in You *** Don Williams does an equally brilliant version
audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m74LodrRxE

3's - 5
2's - 6
1's - 0

grade - 2.5 of 3.0
allmusic - 4.0 of 5.0