Re: Kim Wilson and song writing in general

["M. N." <mnessmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rainbow Jimmy wrote:
"A friend lent me a Kim Wilson tape-succintly marked Kim Wilson in nice 
block printing on a generic cassette. Nice music, excellent musicianship. 
The harp playing was damn near perfect. Despite all that, the songs didn't 
do it for me. Formulaic, kind of flat. I wasn't enamored with the singing 
either."

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If you're not terribly moved by Kim's solo material, you still might dig his 
backing of Jimmy Rogers on the excellent live CD "Ludella." I also highly 
recommend "Memphis Barbecue Sessions" by Big Jack Johnson, which features 
Kim blowing acoustic harp. Both are 100-proof straight ahead blues - nothing 
"new" there.
Just curious, do you have the Satan & Adam CDs? Jason Ricci really said it 
best when I interviewed him for Planet Harmonica: "Satan and Adam, to me, 
were the most unique thing that happened to the blues since Muddy Waters. 
People don't realize that was probably the best thing that happened to the 
blues in our lifetime."
MN

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