The Cornbread Project - Catawampus

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2019
Time: 32:49
Size: 75,7 MB
Label: Straight Shooter Records
Styles: Blues/Roots
Art: Front + Back

Tracks Listing:
 1. Hobo Blues (feat.Big Creek Slim) - 3:42
 2. Rollin' & Tumblin' (feat.Sahra da Silva) - 3:00
 3. You Got To Choose (feat. James Harman) - 3:13
 4. On My Way (feat.Big Creek Slim) - 3:36
 5. My Little Machine (feat. Big Joe Louis) - 3:03
 6. Autumn Shakedown (feat.Rachard Farrell) - 2:54
 7. Kokomo Blues (feat.Troels Jensen) - 2:43
 8. Mannish Boy (feat.Mud Morganfield) - 3:39
 9. Change My Ways (feat.Sahra da Silva) - 3:26
10. Grandma Lurleen's Recipe (feat. James Harman) - 3:30

Catawampus is an album that certainly tips its hat, probably a battered fedora worn at a jaunty angle, at the blues musicians of the ’50s and earlier. However, it is no mere pastiche and brings itself up to date with just the lightest dusting of other genres such as soul, gospel as you might expect, and less predicted production approach that lends more to the likes of hip-hop than traditional recording methods. But it all comes down to the music being used to carry that all-important vocal rather than someone just writing blues songs with lyrics tacked on as an afterthought. And that is where the album comes into its own. And as is the way with many blues albums, this is an album of standards, but this is where the twist comes. It is a combination of new production and reinterpreted playing applied to existing songs, often unused takes and shelved recordings that haven’t seen the light of day, and thus you end up with something both fresh and authentic, archival music being brought bang up to date. There are iconic songs such as Mud Morganfield’s take on his father’s Mannish Boy, Sahra De Silva’s adds some sultry jazz-rock vocals to Rollin’ & Tumblin’, and perhaps the most wonderfully weird offering is the last one, essentially James Harman handing out Cornbread cooking tips to an ancient blues-bar piano score. So this is an album of more recent standards being revisited, reworked, re-celebrated for all the right reasons. I guess more than anything; it proves that a good song is a good song no matter what you do with it. Forget the revolution; Catawampus is all about the evolution.

Catawampus