The Dogtown Blues Band - Search No More

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2021
Time: 38:47 
Size: 88,9 MB 
Label: Self Released
Styles: Blues/Chicago Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Cooking With Style - 3:13
 2. River's Invitation - 2:16
 3. You Better Believe It - 3:32
 4. You Shook Me - 4:58
 5. All Night - 3:27
 6. Search No More - 5:22
 7. Miss Ann - 4:45
 8. Glory Of Love - 3:51
 9. I Wonder - 2:53
10. Long Train Coming - 4:25

Great new review for The DogTown Blues Band from Living Blues Magazine. One of the oldest and most respected Blues publications. Venice, California’s DogTown Blues Band is a wildly eclectic ensemble that brings jazz elements to blues and blues elements to jazz on its second CD. This comes as no surprise since the six core members’ collective sideman credits include work with such diverse artists as Count Basie, Gatemouth Brown, Kenny Burrell, Nels Cline, Kenny G, Beth Hart, Jefferson Starship, Diana Ross, Rufus Thomas and Edgar Winter. Their performances on the disc range from unfiltered Chicago blues, particularly on Easy Baby, a Willie Dixon composition originally recorded by Magic Sam that that features the commanding voice of guest Barbara Morrison, to the Doc Pomus jump blues Doc’s Boogie, sung and played on chromatic harmonica by Bill Barrett. Three numbers by guitarist Richard Lubovitch add to the mix: a Wes Montgomery– style original titled County Line, a jazzy minor blues called Variation II and Boxcar 4468, an instrumental that begins as a slow Blues switching to a swinging 6/8 jazz groove over which he, organist Wayne Peet and guest slide and pedal steel guitarist Marcus Watkins take turns stretching out. Horns are added on three selections and are especially effective on All the Way Down, an instrumental showcase for Barrett’s breathtaking command of the chromatic harp that he co-wrote with Lubovitch. Morrison was a perfect choice for featured vocalist, having sung mostly blues early in her career with Johnny Otis and more recently as the star of her own theatrical tributes to Big Mama Thornton and Dinah Washington, though these days she gigs and records primarily in a straight-ahead jazz context. Besides Easy Baby, she applies her deeply soulful, richly resonant alto pipes to the standards Everyday Day I Have the Blues and Ain’t Nobody’s Business and to the Don Nix blues ballad Same Old Blues. Curiously, the CD credits list Aaron and Milton Sparks as the composers of Everyday I Have the Blues. Although Aaron did record a song of that title in 1935, the version that opens Everyday is actually an almost total reworking of it that Memphis Slim recorded in 1949 as Nobody Loves Me and that subsequently became a hit under the original title for Lowell Fulson, B.B. King and Count Basie. Indeed, the DogTown Blues Band’s treatment is largely based on the 1955 Basie version, right down to Peet’s four-bar piano introduction. —Lee Hildebrand

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