If you want your blues shufflin’ to the boogie, get a hold of Ronnie Earl and his team of Lorne Entress/dr, Dave Limina/B3-p and Jim Mouradian/b. He can take you to the church with gospel blues on the jazz classic “Moanin’” while the spiritual of “Precious Lord” will glow like light through a stained glass window. If you want to visit the other side of the tracks, you get some funky chicken with the B3as Diane Blue belts out “What Have I Done Wrong” and with a smoking horn section she growls out “Higher Love.” Earl himself bends the strings until they moan for a chiropractor on”Right Place Wrong Time” and has them crying like John Boehner on “Giving Up.” The rhythm section shows an incessant instinct to shuffle as on the strutting “I Need You So Bad” while the tame goes soft and foggy on the ballad read fo Brook Benton’s “I’ll Take Care of You.” Take two listens of this and call me in the morning for whatever ails ya.
Stony Plain Records