Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2003
Time:48:19
Size:112,0 MB
Label:Cold Wind Records
Styles:Texas Blues/Electric Blues/Chicago Blues
Art:Full
Time:48:19
Size:112,0 MB
Label:Cold Wind Records
Styles:Texas Blues/Electric Blues/Chicago Blues
Art:Full
Tracks Listing:
1. Money Comes Easy - 3:18
2. I Don't Like That Life - 3:36
3. Nothin' Can Save Me Now - 3:07
4. Found Love - 2:26
5. So Many Women - 2:52
6. Fattening Frogs For Snakes - 3:32
7. Car Trouble - 2:57
8. Howling Wolf - 7:33
9. Going Down To Main Street - 3:11
10. I'm Tryin' - 4:05
11. Nothin' But A Shuffle - 3:07
12. Would She Love Me - 2:39
13. Life In Texas - 3:13
14. Long Winter Nights - 2:34
1. Money Comes Easy - 3:18
2. I Don't Like That Life - 3:36
3. Nothin' Can Save Me Now - 3:07
4. Found Love - 2:26
5. So Many Women - 2:52
6. Fattening Frogs For Snakes - 3:32
7. Car Trouble - 2:57
8. Howling Wolf - 7:33
9. Going Down To Main Street - 3:11
10. I'm Tryin' - 4:05
11. Nothin' But A Shuffle - 3:07
12. Would She Love Me - 2:39
13. Life In Texas - 3:13
14. Long Winter Nights - 2:34
Texas native, but now a Twin Cities resident, Texas Red (Paul Halperin) has been playing the blues for more than 30 years. This dedication has not translated into recordings, however, and "Nothin' Can Save Me Now" is only his second album (the other was 1997's "What Kind Of Woman Is That?"). Even his latest album was recorded mostly in 2001, but it has definitely been worth the wait.
The album opens in style with "Money Comes Easy," which features some excellent muddy harp from Curtis Blake. A shuffle that sets the table for what is to follow. The overarching style is a quite sophisticated mixture of bits of Texas and Chicago, with everything nicely understated. The next couple of tracks ("I Don't Like That Life" and the title track) truck along nicely before the band tackle their first cover, a fine rendition of Jimmy Reed's "Found Love." Like the rest of the covers here (SBWII's "Fattening Frogs For Snakes," and Muddy Waters' "Howling Wolf" and "Going Down To Main Street") it remains pretty faithful to the original. The band really come into their own on the 10 songs that were written by Red himself. The steady rolling groove of "I'm Tryin'" is a joy to behold, for example, and songs like "Nothin' But A Shuffle" and the swinging "Life In Texas" sound like real floor fillers. Red also has a keen eye for detail, which comes through in the lyrics to "Car Trouble" and "Would She Love Me."
"Nothin' Can Save Me Now" is a fine album, that will appeal to those who prefer a subtle edge to their blues. There are no overblown guitar or harp solos here, just quality blues all the way, as you would expect from a band comprising some of the cream of the Twin Cities blues musicians (Dan Schwalbe, Curtis Blake, Jack Taylor and Greg Shuck). Whilst Twin Cities blues fans will be delighted that there is another Texas Red album on the shelves, "Nothin' Can Save Me Now" is one that should appeal to blues lovers way beyond the boundaries of the Twin Cities ~ www.coldwind.com
The album opens in style with "Money Comes Easy," which features some excellent muddy harp from Curtis Blake. A shuffle that sets the table for what is to follow. The overarching style is a quite sophisticated mixture of bits of Texas and Chicago, with everything nicely understated. The next couple of tracks ("I Don't Like That Life" and the title track) truck along nicely before the band tackle their first cover, a fine rendition of Jimmy Reed's "Found Love." Like the rest of the covers here (SBWII's "Fattening Frogs For Snakes," and Muddy Waters' "Howling Wolf" and "Going Down To Main Street") it remains pretty faithful to the original. The band really come into their own on the 10 songs that were written by Red himself. The steady rolling groove of "I'm Tryin'" is a joy to behold, for example, and songs like "Nothin' But A Shuffle" and the swinging "Life In Texas" sound like real floor fillers. Red also has a keen eye for detail, which comes through in the lyrics to "Car Trouble" and "Would She Love Me."
"Nothin' Can Save Me Now" is a fine album, that will appeal to those who prefer a subtle edge to their blues. There are no overblown guitar or harp solos here, just quality blues all the way, as you would expect from a band comprising some of the cream of the Twin Cities blues musicians (Dan Schwalbe, Curtis Blake, Jack Taylor and Greg Shuck). Whilst Twin Cities blues fans will be delighted that there is another Texas Red album on the shelves, "Nothin' Can Save Me Now" is one that should appeal to blues lovers way beyond the boundaries of the Twin Cities ~ www.coldwind.com
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