Eric Bibb – Blues-Ballads and Work Songs (2011)

01 – Goin’ Down The Road Feelin’ Bad
02 – John Henry
03 – Take This Hammer
04 – Cocaine Blues					play
05 – Candy Man
06 – Goin’ Down Slow
07 – Sittin’ On Top Of The World
08 – Come Back Baby
09 – Frankie & Albert
10 – Stagger Lee					play
11 – Juke Dance
12 – My Honey Pie
13 – Satisfied
14 – Sophisticated Shade

Bass [Höfner Violin Bass], Bass [Vintage 63] – Roger Ekman (tracks: 12, 13)
Body Percussion [Mouth-Percussion], Shaker – Svante Drake (tracks: 12, 13)
Electric Guitar – Kahanga "Master Vumbi" Dekula (tracks: 12)
Electric Guitar [Electric Slide Guitar] – Christer Lyssarides (tracks: 13)
Guitar, Vocals, Producer, Liner Notes – Eric Bibb
Mandola – Christer Lyssarides (tracks: 14)
Sousaphone – Bo Juhlin (tracks: 14)

Released at his 60th birthday, Blues, Ballads & Work Songs is a new album Eric Bibb says he's been working on for most of his life. Most of the songs in the album were "standards" of the folk/blues scene when Eric was first exposed to them.

One of the most powerful examples of this childhood memory is Track no. 4 "Take this hammer", which Eric's farther used to sing when Eric was just a boy. His farther even recorded it on a LP (Vanguard). This piece is one of the most haunting in the album. Eric quite rightly stresses in his foreword that the "trick" with this kind of albums is "how to make it your own - while still honouring the tradition". Some of Eric's arrangements in the album (eg. Tracks 2 and 6), I think, do great justice to the tradition while both his singing and guitar paying are more bluesy and rougher than what we've been accustomed to hear from him. I liked that.

On top of the lyrics, Eric explains the origin of the songs, and when/how he first got touch with them. Useful and interesting info on various artists and old recordings. Would be intriguing to see Eric's collection of blues recordings!

Most of the songs are played by fingerpicking - in Eric's recognizable style - various guitars (12 string, 7 string, ...), all mentioned in the intro to each track. The differences of the instruments can be heard, if focused, through Jan-Erik Persson's very transparent recording (as often with Opus3 records) of the guitars. Eric and Jan-Erik have been working together for 35 years - what's a better way celebrate such friendship than to release an album that reflects deep personal roots of Eric Bibb's art. ---inner-magazines.com

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