Albert Bashor - Cotton Field Of Dreams

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2012
Time: 57:58 
Size: 134,5 MB 
Label: Earwig
Styles: Blues/Electric Blues
Art: Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Jukin' Down On Johnson Street - 4:33
 2. Rockin' Red Rooster - 2:51
 3. Poodle Ribs Story - 2:44
 4. Poodle Ribs - 4:59
 5. Put Me On Like You Do - 4:04
 6. Tater Diggin' Woman - 3:14
 7. So Blue - 4:04
 8. One Last Time - 4:33
 9. Cotton Field Of Dreams - 5:38
10. Seeing Eye Dog Blues - 4:06
11. Fetch Me - 5:01
12. No Place Like Home - 3:40
13. High On Your Love - 3:47
14. Lucky Man - 4:38

Fullfilling one’s life long dreams can be a such a satisfying thing that you can let issues of quality and market focus fall by the way side in pursuit of the prize. Cotton Field of Dreams, the debut album from long time sideman and studio player Albert Bashor is no doubt the culmination of many years of work and many miles traveled, achieved with help from respected friends with some gems and a few tracks that could have been left behind. The fourteen songs are a mixture of blues, roots rock and acoustic pop, all featuring Bashor’s raspy southern inflected vocal, witty turn of a lyric and quirky storytelling. “Jukin Down on Johnson Street,” kicks off the album with flair as it cleverly shifts from a rumba to a shuffle while telling the story of being caught up in the spell of the blues. “Red Rockin Roster,” follows with some hot barrel house piano from Little Feats’ Bill Payne who guests on several tracks alongside sax man Ron Holloway: curious why they opted not to have drums on this track which would have put it over the top. Bashor then takes a time out to tell the story behind his oddball funk tune “Poodle Ribs,” the story is funnier than the song. The strongest song on the album has to be the smooth swinging’ duet “So Blue,” with guest vocalist Shay Jones, who plays the perfect foil to Bashor and his clean acoustic guitar. Rock guitar god Pat Travers lifts the off-the-cuff blues “Fetch Me,” to a high light spot, that no doubt was a once in a lifetime jam session for Bashor and friends, they could have ended the album right there.

Cotton Field Of Dreams