Tim Williams - So Low

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2015
Time: 32:19
Size: 74,4 MB
Label: Lowden Proud Records
Styles: Blues/Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. If You Live - 3:34
 2. More Pepper In Your Chili - 2:30
 3. My Big Money - 3:28
 4. Anywhere C/O The Blues - 3:00
 5. Pistol Snapper - 3:16
 6. The Witching Hour - 4:05
 7. The Grizzly Bear - 3:29
 8. Big River - 2:37
 9. Midnight After Midnight - 3:00
10. Lightnin' - 3:15

An excellent ten track album of traditional acoustic blues from Canada, Tim Williams simply has to be one of the finest pickers on the planet these days. A former double award winner at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, this release highlights his captivating style and talent to full effect.
Both of Williams’ previous recent releases, ‘Blue Highway’ and ‘Evenings Among Friends’ – a re-release of an earlier effort – were wonderful bits of striking resonator and acoustic guitar-led blues work. With ‘So Low’ Williams confirms his clearly well-deserved place at the hi-end of the acoustic blues-tree.
Tracks covered include the jazz-inspired If You Live from Mose Allison; Broonzy’s My Big Money – a lesser-known gem; Blind Boy Fuller’s Pistol Slapper, here titled Pistol Snapper, with Williams’ own take on it as part of the ever-evolving folk-process; Johnny Cash’s Big River; and Tampa Red’s classic The Witching Hour. Many tracks are self-penned and showcase the guy’s deep absorption in and understanding of the music and traditional blues in general.
Closing with his own composition, Lightnin‘, a clear homage to his own personal hero, Texan Lightnin’ Hopkins, this album is a genuine revelation, filled with neat guitar chops and intricate picking in styles that range through Delta to Piedmont, Texas to Chicago and most of the USA’s notable blues-posts in between. A positive delight.

So Low