Danny Kalb & Friends - Moving In Blue (2012)

                                                                        Danny Kalb
 Renowned blues guitarist Danny Kalb not only has a new album, but it s a double album in which he gets to explore the many sides and facets of the blues. A founding member of Blues Project in 1965 (which also included future Blood Sweat and Tears members Al Kooper and Steve Katz), Kalb is a fine guitarist with a deep understanding of the blues. This mighty collection kicks off with his own composition Feel Just Like Goin Hom,e a somewhat generic up-tempo blues rocker. It reveals Kalb s capable voice and workmanlike skills on the guitar, but it s the next song where the magic starts. Death Comes Creeping far better suits Kalb s gritty voice, and his hypnotic droning finger picking seems to be more his strong suit. This down-home riverside blues is pure pleasure and downright eerie when he sings God told Nicodemus, You must be born again. Other traditional covers include haunting acoustic rides through Got My Mojo Working, Can t Be Satisfied and In My Time Of Dying. Then he goes in a slightly different direction with Black Coffee, lush and luxurious in a T Bone Walker way. Kalb also offers a distinctly Chicago take on Big Joe Williams Baby Please Don t Go and John Lee Hooker s Louise. Dylan s It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry and Make You Feel My Love are given good updates, while Hank Williams (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle shows that early country wasn t far away from old blues. Originals like Waitress At the Troubadour, Feel Just Like Goin Home and Mournin At Midday are well-done, but the absolute highlight might be his stunning rendition of Son House s Death Letter Blues. It s dark, darker than black. This could actually be broken down into two records: An electric one and an acoustic based one. Released in this manner, however, the double CD album offers variety and diversity, showing the many ways you can use three chords and the truth and Kalb s singular, masterful take on it. David Malachowski

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Credit:

Mark Ambrosino - Drums, Keyboards, Percussion, Slide Guitar, Backing Vocals, Banjo, Bass  
Roy Blumenfeld - Drums
Bob Jones - Bass
Danny Kalb - Guitar, Vocals
Jonathan Kalb - Bass, Harmonica, Slide Guitar, Backing Vocals
Lenny Nelson - Bass
Jesse Williams - Bass

Tracklist:

Disc 01

01. Feel Just Like Goin' Home 02:01
02. Death Comes Creeping 05:09
03. Black Coffee 04:10
04. So Doggone Lonesome 03:31
05. Tryin' To Get To You 04:07
06. Sally Go 'Round the Roses 04:54
07. Can't Be Satisfied 04:15
08. Goin' Down Slow 04:52
09. Make You Feel My Love 04:21
10. Leaving Blues 03:28
11. Got My Mojo Working 05:30  
12. Waitress At the Troubadour 02:52
13. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle 02:42

Disc 02
 
01. God's Radar 03:32
02. Louise 03:53
03. Mournin' At Midday 03:49
04. My Baby's So Sweet 05:57
05. In My Time of Dying 04:00
06. Yellow Cab 03:33
07. Gee Baby, Aint' I Good To You 04:42  
08. Death Letter Blues 05:16
09. It Takes a Lot To Laugh, It Takes a Train To Cry 03:57
10. Baby, Please Don't Go 03:00
11. I'll Fly Away 04:53  
12. Yellow Sky 02:52