Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2009
Time: 41:06
Size: 97,3 MB
Label: Lion and Fox
Styles: Blues
Art: Front
Year: 2009
Time: 41:06
Size: 97,3 MB
Label: Lion and Fox
Styles: Blues
Art: Front
Tracks Listing:
1. Jump Tonight! - 3:12
2. What Is A Man? - 2:39
3. Trouble - 3:05
4. Mexican Boogie - 2:51
5. Mona - 3:52
6. Always about a woman - 3:57
7. Crossroads - 4:07
8. Diving Duck Blues - 4:10
9. The Habit of You - 2:47
10. I Beat Mike Tyson - 3:35
11. KLM - 3:15
12. Sunday Morning - 3:33
1. Jump Tonight! - 3:12
2. What Is A Man? - 2:39
3. Trouble - 3:05
4. Mexican Boogie - 2:51
5. Mona - 3:52
6. Always about a woman - 3:57
7. Crossroads - 4:07
8. Diving Duck Blues - 4:10
9. The Habit of You - 2:47
10. I Beat Mike Tyson - 3:35
11. KLM - 3:15
12. Sunday Morning - 3:33
Swing and jump blues are an easy sell to me when done well and this Washington D.C. area band does do it right. The CD is filled with an assortment of mostly jump blues and a little other stuff. I prefer the swinging stuff, but it’s all kind of interesting. The Deacons are led by Universalist minister and target shooting bassist and vocalist “Reverend Jake” John O’Connnor. Guitar player Cliff Schaumberg has been entertaining DC area blues fans since 1962. “Georgia Slim” Jim Wilson plays keyboard, guitar, slide guitar, and offers up some lead and backing vocals. Last but not least is Dennis Hash on drums.
11 of the 13 tracks were penned by the band. They open with a Big Joe Turner classic, “Jump Tonight!” and that swinging track grabs you and makes you want to put your dancing shoes on! The Rev’s vocals and Wilson’s keys are classically done and Shaumberg shows he is no weakling on guitar, either. The other cover is Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads”. Shaumberg fronts the band for this track, the only one he sings on. He offers up a very gritty alternative to O’Connor. He also plays some stinging guitar here. “Mona” is sort of a weird track. It reminds me of a Cars tune with O’Connor’s vocals reminiscent of Rik Ocasek; the beat and overall sound is like a New Wave rock song. The synthesizer by Wilson also seem out of place on a predominantly jump blues CD, but what the heck; they are giving it their all. He also fill sin some synthesizer to close out “Trouble”, the funky track on the CD. I prefer it when he jumps and swings, but it’s not bad and he plays pretty darn well. “I Beat Mike Tyson” begins as slow blues done well and with some great piano work; then the tempo shifts right in the middle of the song and turns into a jumping track with some great guitar by Shaumberg. Quite interesting. They close with a churchy sounding organ and piano and overall soulful playing in “Sunday Morning”, the only instrumental here. Wilson shows off his guitar on "The Habit of You" and another change of pace on vocals; he also sings well on “Trouble” and “Always a Woman”; the latter track gives us a nice a very slow boogie piano by him. The big songs that are originals and showcase their driving blues and rock style are “What is a Man?”, “Mexican Boogie” and “Driving Duck Blues”. Rough and tumble, jumping and swinging; this is where the band is at its’ best in my opinion. When they lay it all out they seem to be at their hottest.
11 of the 13 tracks were penned by the band. They open with a Big Joe Turner classic, “Jump Tonight!” and that swinging track grabs you and makes you want to put your dancing shoes on! The Rev’s vocals and Wilson’s keys are classically done and Shaumberg shows he is no weakling on guitar, either. The other cover is Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads”. Shaumberg fronts the band for this track, the only one he sings on. He offers up a very gritty alternative to O’Connor. He also plays some stinging guitar here. “Mona” is sort of a weird track. It reminds me of a Cars tune with O’Connor’s vocals reminiscent of Rik Ocasek; the beat and overall sound is like a New Wave rock song. The synthesizer by Wilson also seem out of place on a predominantly jump blues CD, but what the heck; they are giving it their all. He also fill sin some synthesizer to close out “Trouble”, the funky track on the CD. I prefer it when he jumps and swings, but it’s not bad and he plays pretty darn well. “I Beat Mike Tyson” begins as slow blues done well and with some great piano work; then the tempo shifts right in the middle of the song and turns into a jumping track with some great guitar by Shaumberg. Quite interesting. They close with a churchy sounding organ and piano and overall soulful playing in “Sunday Morning”, the only instrumental here. Wilson shows off his guitar on "The Habit of You" and another change of pace on vocals; he also sings well on “Trouble” and “Always a Woman”; the latter track gives us a nice a very slow boogie piano by him. The big songs that are originals and showcase their driving blues and rock style are “What is a Man?”, “Mexican Boogie” and “Driving Duck Blues”. Rough and tumble, jumping and swinging; this is where the band is at its’ best in my opinion. When they lay it all out they seem to be at their hottest.
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