Is It News

Product Details

Artist : Doyle Bramhall
Format : Best of
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0634457209725
Label : Outside Music
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2007-09-25
UPC : 634457209725

ASIN : B000I0QKUG

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Lost In the Cargo
2. Is It News
3. Chateau Strut
4. Tortured Soul
5. Cryin’
6. I’ll Take You Away
7. Big
8. Ooh Wee Baby
9. You Left Me this Mornin’
10. Top Rank Boxing
11. That Day
12. The Moon Is Shining

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Editorial Reviews

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This may be the best roadhouse-rock-and-blues-guitar album a drummer's ever made. But then again, this 40-year-veteran Austin songwriter's always had an affinity for guitarists. His first band, the Chessmen, featured Jimmie Vaughan and opened for Jimi Hendrix. Bramhall cowrote nine tunes with Jimmie's brother Stevie Ray. And his own son, Doyle II, is a six-string star who tours and records with Eric Clapton. So when the disc opens with charging chords and tremolo riffs atop a big Bo Diddley beat and closes with a prickly Texas Stratocaster serenade from Bramhall's fellow former Chessman, that's not surprising. Producer C.C. Adcock, Dylan guitarist Denny Freeman, and the junior Bramhall also get their licks in. What's unexpected is how far Bramhall stretches the genre's limits, setting "Tortured Soul" to an ambling drumbeat and atmospheric slide guitar arrangement that wobbles amiably into Tom Waits's turf. And "Chateau Strut" is a flat-out fusion instrumental, while "Cryin'" sounds like a lost doo-wop classic pinched from David Lynch's jukebox. Bramhall directs all this with his authoritative punch on drums and a dry, unadorned singing style that keeps his third solo disc direct and soulful all the way through. --Ted Drozdowski

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