Re: [Harp-L] re James Cotton recommendations

[ChicagoBlues1991@xxxxxxx]

My favorite Cotton CDs are the 2 live ones: one on Antones and one on 
Alligator with Michael Coleman.

cb

In a message dated 7/21/06 4:27:55 AM, lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> I agree with most of what has been recommended.
> 
> My first pick for James Cotton stuff would be 100% Cotton. It's an amazing
> album, full of steam and feel, very modern sounding still today, and 
> features
> some of Cotton's most lasting tunes like Boogie Thing, How Long Can a Fool 
> Go
> Wrong and the amazing instrumental Creeper Creeps Again.
> 
> From exactly the same period I own an awesome yet obscure Live at the 
> Electric
> Lady which I have reviewed on my blog
> (http://harmonica.typepad.com/harmonica_ramblings/2005/03/james_cotton_li.htm
> l)
> The music is funky and the band is tight !
> 
> My next best Cotton album us the intimate and moving Deep in the Blues with
> Charlie Haden and Joe Louis Walker. It's full acoustic, mostly low-key, and
> absolutely amazing in the emotion it conveys. It was recorded when Cotton's
> voice was already shot, but the acoustic accompaniment actually sets a nice
> scene for this gravelly growl.
> 
> For Cotton as a sideman, I second Hard Again, a must-have CD in its own 
> right.
> 
> Ben FELTEN
> http://harmonica.typepad.com
> 
>