Label: Bullseye Blues
Recorded at Blue Jay Studio, Carlisle,
Massachussets in February & March 1983
Blues
If you're looking for a CD reissue of Joseph Benjamin Hutto's last record, 1983's "Slippin' And Slidin'", you've found it.
The first ten tracks on this CD was originally released as Varrick 006, "Slippin' And Slidin'", by J.B. Hutto & The New Hawks, but this remastered edition features richer sound and two bonus tracks, the agressive instrumental "Floatin' Fruit Boogie" and the funky "Radar" (which features two simple but fiery solos from Hutto's second guitarist Brian Bisesi).
J.B. Hutto and the New Hawks are accompanied by excellent pianist Ron Levy and the Roomful of Blues reed section, saxists Greg Piccoli, Doug James and Rich Lataille, and they turn out a soulful cover of Roy Hawkins' B.B. King-composition "Why Do Things Happen To Me", and a fiery take on Fenton Robinson's "Somebody Loan Me A Dime".
The sound is excellent, and Hutto's loud, smouldering slide playing and big, booming voice shows no signs of the illness that took his life just a few months later. Brian Bisesi plays some raw, groovy rhythm guitar behind Hutto's leads, and Ron Levy adds sublime boogie piano to the funky "Eighteen Year Old Girl", and slow, soulful, jazzy fills to "Jealous Hearted Woman".
The three saxophones adds nice texture as well, particularly on "Black's Ball" and "Little Girl Dressed In Blue", but the biggest highlight on this consistently fine album has to be Hutto's screaming cover of Howlin' Wolf's ferocious "I'm Leaving You". An up-tempo blues with some tough, sinewy rhythm guitar playing and great, swinging blues piano licks, the song powers along like the proverbial freight train, making it impossible to sit still.
If you manage to do so anyway, you should check your pulse.
By Docendo Discimus.
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Ron Levy - Piano
Doug James - Baritone Saxophone
Greg Piccolo - Tenor Saxophone
J.B. Hutto - Vocals, Guitar
Brian Bisesi - Guitar
Kenny Krumbholz - Bass
Leroy Pina - Drums
Rich Lataile - Alto Saxophone
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01. Pretty Baby 4:38
02. Why Do Things Happen to Me 5:20
03. New Hawk Walk 3:45
04. Eighteen Year Old Girl 4:19
05. Black's Ball 2:59
06. Soul Lover 3:03
07. Somebody Loan Me a Dime 3:02
08. Jealous Hearted Woman 5:53
09. Little Girl Dressed in Blue 3:10
10. I'm Leaving You 2:48
11. Floating Fruit Boogie 3:53
12. Radar 3:07
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