Big Al & The Heavyweights - Sunshine On Me

Bitrate:320K/s

Year:2013
Time:38:57 
Size:90,0 MB 
Label:Self-Release 
Styles:Blues/Roots Rock/Contemporary Blues/Zydeco 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Don't You Want Me - 3:06
 2. What's Up With That - 3:45
 3. Sunshine On Me (feat.Warren Haynes) - 3:43
 4. Money Matters - 6:04
 5. Won't You Dance With Me - 2:35
 6. Pass a Good Time (feat.Anders Osborne) - 2:57
 7. What Was I Thinking - 3:10
 8. Midnight Train to Memphis - 3:20
 9. Peaches - 3:30
10. So Many Women - 3:28
11. Zydeco Boogie - 3:14

Blues, zydeco and rock band from Louisiana, USA. Formed in 1996 as the Unknown Blues Band by Big Al Lauro, Warren Haynes, and Rick Gergen.Big Al & the Heavyweights featuring Big Al,Harmonica Red, James Bass,Dean Galatas. All you have to know about these guys is the fanatical following of "Gumbo Heads" that numbers in the thousands. They drive hundreds of miles to get a serving of Big Al and the Heavyweights musical gumbo. You see, Big Al and the Heavyweights is an unconventional original music band that hails from New Orleans, LA. Why Big Al himself is from The Big Easy. That is where he grew up, surrounded by the sounds of New Orleans music - Jazz, Blues, Zydeco, Cajun, Rock, and Swamp Pop. It is these influences that make Heavyweight music so accessible and fun/ These seasoned road veterans hit it tight and hard from the get-go, and the intensity never lets up. Their sound is tried and true Chicago blues with little Westside saxophone and a taste of South Louisiana bubbling up with some frattoir and accordion. Drummer Big Al Lauro plays the blues shuffles like he was born with the drum sticks in his hand, and John The Colonel Fuhrman s harmonica threatens to go completely off the rails but never quite takes it that far. This is roadhouse music, music for a dancing up a good time with a cold one never far away from one s hand. There s a humorous why-you-got-to-be-like-that-woman tune in the vein of Sonny Boy s Don t Start Me Talkin called What s Up With That. and the deep funk of the title cut with special guest Warren Haynes slinky slide guitar over a Meters-esque beat. The Heavyweights vary up the South Side sound with some zydeco two steps spread throughout the disc so that they don t get bogged down in the blues.Sunshine On Me brings on a need to shake a tailfeather and sip an ice-cold beverage, and do that all night long. --Offbeat Magazine.

Sunshine On Me