Made in Italy: thorns-tingling acoustic Blues, which, despite Angelo Rossi's nickname, is crafted with great personality and authenticity. The happy peninsula could be too tight for an artist. Unvarnished, inky blues songs tainted with an infectious mood and edgy incisiveness: a real treat for connoisseurs.
If finding original artists in the Italian Blues scene is not easy, finding acoustics can be a prohibitive undertaking, then a praise to all those who engage in this daring. The reasons are as usual multiple but impossible to analyze in a review, so we will limit ourselves here to talk about Angelo Rossi called "Leadbelly" at his third opera, after a first self-produced CD and Jump up songs, produced by PopolodelBlues (PDB 011 ) in 2000. At the first listening I don't want to take anything with me when I'm gone - don't worry, Angelo doesn't leave us anything here - you feel a lack of that immediacy that Jump up songs he possessed, if not for the mere fact that Angelo, in 2000, had been recorded in the environment most suitable to him that is "on the road", he already legendary for the outbursts on the slide on the Bum-chick, the chitarraccia which is also the its symbol. The impact, it was said, is less strong and this CD needs some listening before breaking the ice, before turning out to be excellent, lacking or almost flawed, with a sound that works like a low-speed electric drill. Acoustic Blues that creeps into the folds of life; the most successful pieces, truly excellent, are "Broken Wheel", "Flat Green Land", "Don't Shut Your Door" and the final "No More War", a "pacifist" piece that is not, as usual, the usual dull melenia sung to subject. The most difficult piece could be "Brother Wim Blues", very rarefied, perhaps, as some have remarkably noticed, a tribute to Wim Wenders. The less original song, "Me and my Mule", due to the use of the bass tuba, popularized by Tom Waits. But they are marginal details: Angelo does not mimic anyone, not even the current fashion of the Mississippi High Hills, with Burnside clones that multiply out of all proportion. Angelo is a supremely sincere and at the same time refined musician, like his Blues, and this peninsula is damn narrow. The 270-degree cover is splendid, which could be a beautiful poster by Paola Cortelazzo. A great record: PDB blue 'choice.
Tracklist:
01. Lost In Mississippi 04:26
02. Look At Me 02:17
03. Broken Wheel 02:46
04. Got To Pay My Bill 04:16
05. Me & My Mule 03:32
06. Slowly Stuff Blues 03:39
07. Brother Wim Blues 03:06
08. Flat Green Land 03:28
09. Cherry Ball Blues 03:07
10. Don't Shut Your Door 03:56
11. No More War 04:47
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