Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice - Acid Blue

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1995
Time: 60:08
Size: 145,9 MB
Label: Fantasy
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
 1. Peacock Alley - 4:25
 2. Sign Language - 3:00
 3. Always A First Time - 6:22
 4. Smoothin' For Lester - 5:44
 5. Who Do You Think You're Foolin' - 6:00
 6. Someday After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry) - 5:23
 7. Bottoms Up - 3:25
 8. I Can Do This All Night Long - 6:21
 9. Tuff Guy - 4:05
10. Rock Me Baby - 6:00
11. Cool Mambo - 4:09
12. Keep On Tryin' - 5:08

This is a new kind of music invented by Greg Piccolo who plays sax, guitar, vocals, and composes his own music, from A-Z. From a moving rendition of Freddie King's "Someday After Awhile" in which his guitar phrasing is pure Piccolo to his original "Tuff Guy" a rousing stomp in the vein of his earlier masterpiece "Dressed Up To Get Messed Up" (1984) this is an exciting style never heard before. Even the latin rhythmed Sonny Stitt sax classic "Cool Mambo" and Illinois Jacquet's "Bottom's Up" puts such new energy into old music you'd think they were written just yesterday, as he also breaths life into Lester Young with an improviseed "Smoothin' with Lester". Piccolo's vocals are signature, a subtle instrument.
Obviously he couldn't have made this music in his 25 year gig with Roomful of Blues, though you could hear it coming as far back as 1984. By ramping down to a smaller combo his individual energies can finally surface to define his virtuosity in a new genre known as "Pic Music" though the Fantasy Label called it "Acid Blues".

Acid Blue