Rawls & Luckett - Can't Sleep At Night

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1994
Time:50:46 
Size:116,7 MB 
Label:Rooster Blues Records 
Styles:Blues/Soul 
Art:Full 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Can't Sleep At Night - 2:57
 2. I Don't Do Windows - 2:46
 3. Can We Talk It Over - 3:53
 4. What Makes A Good Man Go Bad - 3:04
 5. Have You Ever Played The Fool - 3:40
 6. Shake It. Shake It. Baby - 4:23
 7. Good Love (Takes More Than A Minute) - 3:36
 8. Soul To Soul - 3:35
 9. Playboy - 3:50
10. Be Fair To People - 4:26
11. If You're Not Home By Tomorrow - 4:22
12. Who Made The Mountain - 3:00
13. Don't Mess With My Wife - 4:24
14. Medley: I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy / Ace Of Spades - 2:45

Musicians:
Johnny Rawls - vocals, guitar, organ, claves;
L.C. Luckett - vocals, guitar,bass guitar, piano, organ, tambourine;
Eric Thomas - (bass on 7);
Arthneice ‘Gas Man’ Jones - harmonica;
Miro Ferraci, Arthur G. Edmaiston, Jr. - tenor saxophone;
Curt Pulliam - trumpet;
Eddie "Fast Eddie" Gillispie - drums.

If you long for "new" material in the old-school style, you should definitely make this a part of your collection. It's early Johhny Rawls, and L.C. Luckett, with a raw soul that will blow your socks (or other items of clothing) off. :) Luckett's and Rawls' voices blend just right on these cuts, and their solos make you close your eyes to listen (not a good thing if you're driving!) This is a must for any true soul lover. And check out Rawls' later cds. Soulful blues at its best.Johnny Rawls and L.C. Luckett are veterans of the chitlin’ circuit having formed the nucleus of deep soul singer O.V. Wright’s last band as well as backing Latimore, Lynn White, Willie Cobbs, Z.Z. Hill, and Little Johnny Taylor. This is their debut album as leaders, and it offers a hearty mix of deep southern soul and blues with a dash of gospel. Material is mostly originals by the pair although two tracks are associated with Wright, I Don’t Do Windows and a medley of I’d Rather Be Blind/ Crippled and Crazy coupled with Ace of Spades. While Wright’s influence can be heard in the pleading urgency of several performances, including the title track and What Makes a Good Man Go Bad, the mood on others, like the soulful ballad Can We Talk It Over, owes as much to Sam Cooke, Otis Redding and Sam and Dave.Their blues generally are not as distinctive lyrically or instrumentally as their hard soul tunes, but the impassioned singing and playing makes If You Not Home By Tomorrow a particularly arresting track. The dance number Shake It, Shake It Baby (“let me see you pop,”) is a lightweight funky dance number that suggests a slightly uptempo Get Out Of My Life Woman. Most of their songs though are solid performances, capturing a range of moods and settings - from deep soul to the slight swamp/pop flavor of Soul to Soul. Rawls and Luckett overdub on guitar, bass and keyboards with horns added to several tracks, and Arthneice ‘Gas Man’ Jones adds harp to Be Fair To People and If You’re Not Home Till Tomorrow. Certainly this album compares very favorably with most of the recent similar efforts from the Ichiban and Malaco labels, and it’s well worth more than a listen. This review originally appeared in the March 1995 Jazz & Blues Report (Issue 199).

Can't Sleep At Night