Dave Thompson - Little Dave And Big Love

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1995
Time: 49:13 
Size: 153,2 MB 
Label: Fat Possum
Styles: Blues
Art: Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Standing Up On My Own - 5:32
 2. You Took My Baby - 3:51
 3. After Hours Bar - 4:41
 4. I'm Having It So Hard - 4:57
 5. Hey Momma - 2:39
 6. Why Do You Treat Me This Way - 3:47
 7. Instrumental #7 - 4:58
 8. Got A Bad Feeling - 4:36
 9. Ain't It A Shame - 3:08
10. I Don't Care What Nobody Say - 6:57
11. Mississippi Bay - 4:01

Robert Palmer's notes declaring Dave Thompson a "thoroughly original" bluesman "without a veneer of irony or posturing" sound downright ludicrous after actually listening to the music. While he insists that Thompson's songs are "[not] stylistically indebted to any obvious influence," one can clearly hear echoes of Stevie Ray Vaughan, especially on "Instrumental # 7" and "You Took My Baby." Most of the tracks (save the funky "Standing up on My Own") are conventional bar-blues jams, and as such are merely vehicles for Thompson's lead guitar work, which is by far the most enjoyable aspect of the album. Using a quarter as a pick, he produces a lockjaw tone that screams, cries, and slugs with the best of them, making one long for the days when a guitarist of his caliber recognized their limitations and opted to back up a gifted bandleader, instead of wasting their time with boring musicians, writing boring songs, and stifling their own success.

Little Dave And Big Love