Robert 'Top' Thomas - The Town Crier

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2013
Time: 43:21 
Size: 99,8 MB 
Label: Wildwood Records
Styles: Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Mississippi Quickie - 3:31
 2. Blues Grass - 3:08
 3. The Same Thing Could Happen to You - 2:36
 4. Lazy Little Daisy - 3:45
 5. King Snake Crawl - 4:15
 6. Bad Seed - 5:11
 7. What's the Matter Ma - 1:50
 8. Sugar Shop - 3:16
 9. Yeehaw Junction - 3:08
10. I'm a Freight Train - 2:50
11. Daddy's Gone - 2:48
12. The Town Crier - 4:05
13. It Aint Easy - 2:58

Robert 'Top' Thomas recorded several albums with the combo SmokeHouse, including "Cadillac In The Swamp". Of course, the guitarist, singer and composer has also toured with SmokeHouse, as has been the case with Blue House, Mark 'MuddyHarp' Hodgson, The King Snake Allstar Revue, Lazy Lester, Alex Taylor, Victor Wainwright, Noble 'Thin Man' Watts or Bill Wharton.
If you start your debut album with a boogie somewhere between Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker, you definitely have the right record opener in the track list. But that's not all, you can also tell that the man from New Smyrna Beach (Florida) has his heart in the right place for the blues. Comparisons are rare, but if Elvin Bishop comes to mind here and there, then the blues fan is on the right track.
Robert 'Top' Thomas didn't just write great songs for SmokeHouse. He also brings this quality to bear here, for example together with band member Stephen Dees. Only "The Same Thing Could Happen To You", which has a slight zydeco mood, comes from Jerry West.
But this style alone is not enough for Robert 'Top' Thomas and his formidable band. For example, they are also fit in the Swamp or Chicago variations. Thus, "Town Crier" offers a great deal of variety, without the protagonist getting lost in any way, without going off the road.

The Town Crier