John Mayall - 2022 - The Sun is Shining Down (qobuz Hi-Res) [[email protected]]
Artist: John Mayall
Title: The Sun is Shining Down
Format: Format: 10 × File, FLAC, Stereo, Album, Remastered, 24bit 96kHz (qobuz)
Producer: John Mayall
Release Date: January 28, 2022
Recorded: December, 2019 at Horse Latitudes Studio, Glendale, California and Strawhorse Studios, Los Angeles, California
Label: Forty Below Records
Genre: Blues, British Blues, Jazz Blues, Harmonica Blues, Blues Rock
Duration: 45:43
John Mayall:
Wikipedia:
John Mayall, (born 29 November 1933) is an English blues singer, guitarist, organist and songwriter, whose musical career spans over fifty years. In the 1960s, he was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, a band which has counted among its members some of the most famous blues and blues rock musicians. They include Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Hughie Flint, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Johnny Almond, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya and Buddy Whittington.
In November 2008, Mayall announced on his website he was disbanding the Bluesbreakers, to cut back on his heavy workload and give himself freedom to work with other musicians. Three months later a solo world tour was announced, with: Rocky Athas on guitar, Greg Rzab on bass, and Jay Davenport on drums. Tom Canning, on organ, joined the band for the tour which started in March 2009. An album was released in September 2009. Since then, Mayall has continued to tour with the same backing band, minus Canning, who left due to other priorities.
The Sun is Shining Down:
Allmusic Review by Thom Jurek:
Just after his 88th birthday in 2021, John Mayall, the long-reigning king of British blues, announced he was hanging up his road shoes. He also noted that he would continue to record and felt excited by the work he was doing. The Sun Is Shining Down (album number 60) was completed just before that announcement. As evidenced here, his ability to write and record vital modern blues with excellent musicians continues unabated. These ten tracks showcase a cast of invited all-star guests; most are guitar slingers -- after all, this is the man who gave us Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and countless others. His own band comprises guitarist Carolyn Wonderland, bassist Greg Rzab, drummer Jay Davenport, and a horn section for the proceedings. Mayall sings, plays piano, Wurlitzer, Hammond B-3, and harmonica.
Opener "Hungry and Ready" is a swinging Chicago blues with Mississippi-born bluesman Melvin Taylor playing lead guitar atop hard-grooving horns. Mayall, in excellent voice, still plays a deft, wailing harmonica. Taylor's solo is mean and winding. South Carolina blues hero Marcus King takes the lead chair for "Can't Take No More," a funky roadhouse blues driven by B-3 and a cracking drum kit. King lays down layer after layer of tasty guitar fills. Former Heartbreaker and current Fleetwood Mac axeman Mike Campbell guests on Bernard Allison's "Chills and Thrills," offering his funky, yet precise economical style as the perfect foil for Mayall's voice and evil B-3. Buddy Miller adds a nasty blues tone and grimy solo to "I'm as Good as Gone." Violinist Scarlet Rivera accompanies the band on "Deep Blue Sea." Her sweeping fills and labyrinthine solo expand the tune's frame to the breaking point, and Mayall's piano work is exemplary, coming right out of the stride and NOLA traditions, adding color and texture with a Wurlitzer. Ukulele innovator Jake Shimabukuro trades tasty, snarling lines with Wonderland on "One Special Lady" (a jump blues) as Mayall's B-3 prods the band to support them. Taylor tears it up again on a cover of Roosevelt Sykes' "Driving Wheel." His stinging fills punctuate each sung line as the horns stroll and roil underneath. Wonderland shines as a soloist on the closing title track. Her sinister, steamy blues, razor-wire fills, and accents bubble and bump atmospherically around and under Mayall's organ and moaning vocal while the band shuffles, swells, and vamps all around them. Wonderland doesn't merely trade lines with Mayall, she offers a tight, soulful solo and plays call-and-response with herself, offering tight lines and smoky phrases. Hopefully, life goes according to plan and Mayall gets to deliver many more recordings before he's done, because The Sun Is Shining Down sounds hungry and vital. Mayall delivers these rough-and-ready blues like a champ.
Tracklist:
01 - Hungry and Ready (feat. Melvin Taylor) - 5:00
02 - Can't Take No More (feat. Marcus King) - 3:45
03 - I'm as Good as Gone (feat. Buddy Miller) - 4:23
04 - Got to Find a Better Way (feat. Scarlet Rivera) - 5:00
05 - Chills and Thrills (feat. Mike Campbell) - 5:20
06 - One Special Lady (feat. Jake Shimabukuro) - 4:17
07 - A Quitter Never Wins - 4:33
08 - Deep Blue Sea (feat. Scarlet Rivera) - 4:25
09 - Driving Wheel (feat. Melvin Taylor) - 3:41
10 - The Sun Is Shining Down (feat. Carolyn Wonderland) - 5:19
Credits:
John Mayall - Composer, Hammond B3, Harmonica, Piano, Primary Artist, Producer, Vocals, Wurlitzer
Bernard Allison -Composer
Cristina Arrigoni -Back Cover Photo
Mike Campbell -Featured Artist
Mark Chalecki -Mastering
Eric Corne - Engineer, Guitar (Rhythm), Mixing, Producer
Jay Davenport -Drums
Michael Dumas -Engineer
Ron Dziubla -Saxophone
Tinsley Ellis -Composer
David Gomez -Inside Photo
Thomas Johansen -Engineer
Marcus King -Featured Artist
Inaiah Lujan -Graphic Design, Layout
Buddy Miller - Featured Artist
Mark Pender - Trumpet
Scarlet Rivera - Featured Artist
Shye Ronen - Digital Art
Richard A. Rosenberg - Trombone
Bobby Rush - Composer
Greg Rzab - Guitar (Bass)
Margaret Sampson - Composer
Jake Shimabukuro - Featured Artist
Brad Silverberg - Photography
Roosevelt Sykes - Composer
Melvin Taylor - Featured Artist
Billy Watts - Guitar (Rhythm)
Anthony Wolch - Cover Art, Creative Director, Typography
Carolyn Wonderland - Featured Artist, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm)
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