Barefoot Servants - Barefoot Servants

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 1994
Time: 47:34 
Size: 110,0 MB 
Label: Epic 
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Full

Tracks Listing:
 1. Jealous Man - 3:31
 2. Box Of Miracles - 3:43
 3. Love's Made A Fool - 3:32
 4. It Hurts Me Too - 4:41
 5. Foolish Behavior - 4:11
 6. Drinking Again - 3:10
 7. Whiskey Man - 0:35
 8. Red Handed - 3:40
 9. Fire And Gasoline - 3:30
10. Better Off Dead - 2:42
11. Blackbird - 5:15
12. Muscle Car - 4:18
13. Bound For Glory - 4:17
14. Railroad Line Revisited - 0:23

It's too bad this album didn't get more attention and have more success. It is a really good album. Superb musicianship, energy and a variety of styles and great songs. Jon Butcher plays great blues lead as well as Ben Shultz on slide and a rhythm section with Lee Sklar playing bass. Every aspect of the album is enjoyable. Many times an album will have one flaw like the band was great but the singing was weak. Not here. It's all good. Named after a line in BOB DYLAN's ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, covered so memorably by JIMI HENDRIX, BAREFOOT SERVANTS fired off this shot of hard charging blooze-rock mastery in 1994 (followed a decade later by a sequel). Fronted by longtime Boston's longtime black guitar hero JON BUTCHER, whose raspy, passionate vocals and searing arsenal of six string licks were the band's calling card, their ace lineup also included legendary Hollywood session bassist LELAND SKLAR (JAMES TAYLOR, PHIL COLLINS). The originals JEALOUS MAN, RED HANDED and BOX OF MIRACLES are top notch rip snorters, and the short, gripping acoustic number WHISKEY MAN will make you wish it was a full length track. To boot, a muscular take on IT HURTS ME TOO is one of the better versions of that expressive ELMORE JAMES standard, which everyone from FOGHAT to SUSAN TEDESCHI has tackled. The group's blustery meat and potatoes approach found them swinging through a variety of styles from balls-out boogie to intrinsic folk. In a perfect world, BAREFOOT SERVANTS would have been all over AOR radio in the nineties and the new millennium. For that matter, JON BUTCHER should have been a star way back in 1980.

Barefoot Servants