James Day & The Fish Fry - Southland

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2014
Time:50:16 
Size:116,1 MB 
Label:Neon Blues Records / VizzTone 
Styles:Blues/Harmonica Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Chain of Pain - 2:36
 2. Next New Thing - 3:17
 3. Muscadine Wine - 3:49
 4. Time & Money - 3:22
 5. Nat'chel Man - 3:22
 6. Fish Fry Jump - 4:16
 7. Country Woman - 4:09
 8. One Step Des Chameaux - 3:09
 9. Don't Bruise the Melons - 3:25
10. Weather Blues - 3:56
11. Zydeco Boogaloo - 2:40
12. Festival Time - 4:02
13. Money, Smarts & Charm - 3:16
14. Southland - 4:57

Though James Day has made the City of Brotherly Love his hometown, his music has not strayed far from his upbringing near the Gulf of Mexico. His years in Biloxi and New Orleans are channeled into James Day and the Fish Fry’s sophomore album, Southland. 20 musicians are credited on this project, but the core of Philadelphia’s Fish Fry is Day on vocals, guitars and harp, Mark Shewchuk on guitars and drums, Ron Baldwin on keys (including the accordion!), John Merigliano on drums, and Michael Massimino on bass. Day, Shewchuk, and Baldwin have been playing together for a dozen years and share a brotherly bond of musicianship that is palpable. Southland has 14 tracks and with a running time of 50 minutes you can do the math and figure out that the album is not loaded up with self-indulgent 10-minute guitar jams. Instead, you will find a solid crop of well-written original tunes that relate a vivid image of life in the American South (so, it turns out that Southland is not just a clever title). Some of these songs have been in the works since their 2006 demo, and the guys have filled in the rest with newer material that combine together to complete a really neat story.

Southland