Year: 2000
Time: 46:14
Size: 106,3 MB
Label: Stony Plane Records
Styles: Blues
Art: Full
Tracks Listing:
1. Train - 2:34
2. Midnight Rambler - 4:34
3. Shake Your Sugar Tree - 2:14
4. If I Ain't Got - 3:31
5. The Moose Is Loose - 2:37
6. Eyesight To The Blind - 2:19
7. That's All Right - 5:10
8. Rock This Morning - 3:34
9. Guilty - 3:50
10. That Would Be Fine - 3:42
11. Outta Love - 4:05
12. We Get By - 5:30
13. Hidden Track - 2:28
Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kristi Johnson is a capable blues guitarist and a startlingly fine singer and songwriter. On her debut album she leads a bare-bones trio (augmented by the occasional guest musician) through a program of hardheaded blues and R&B, most of it original. "Train" starts things off with a bang: after a slow-strutting intro, the song transitions without warning into a quick blues shuffle, then breaks down as Johnson takes her first solo, which alternates masterful understatement with fleet-fingered heat. "Shake Your Sugar Tree," another Johnson original, sounds like a cross between Tin Pan Alley and early jump blues with a slightly nastier edge. And speaking of a nasty edge, "If I Ain't Got" is a slow, snarling scorcher; a brazen challenge to her lover punctuated by filthy guitar fills. Best of all is the soulful kiss-off "Outta Love." Johnson doesn't maintain this level of quality perfectly -- her solo on "That Would Be Fine" is ponderous and sloppy -- but for a debut album, the level of musicianship here is very impressive. She'll probably only get better.
That Would Be Fine
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