Sam Myers Coming From The Old School(blues)(mp3@320)[rogercc]

Sam Myers Coming From The Old School
Label : Electro Fi
Released : 18 May 2004
Recorded : 12 January 2004 – 14 January 2004
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It's taken Sam Myers fully 50 years to make his first solo album. But he's no stranger to either stage or studio, having worked with Elmore James and Anson Funderburgh. For his debut he's assembled a top-notch band, led by guitarist Mel Brown, to work not so much behind him as with him. Brown is a standout as an accompanist, offering wonderful decoration to "I Got the Blues" and "Burning Fire." But understandably, it's Myers who's the star of the show, and his driving harmonica playing carries its own momentum, as on his version of Rice Miller's "Ninety Nine." But there's also a very pleasing grit to his singing, whether on the slow and deeply soulful"After Hours When the Joint Is Closed," or "Waitin' On Your Mama," which could have come directly from the Chicago school of blues. It might have taken him five decades to get to this, but from the music on the disc, not a single minute was wasted.

Tracklist :
01. I'm Tired Of Your Jive
02. Ninety Nine
03. I Got A Thing For The Voodoo Woman
04. Burning Fire
05. Waitin 'On You Mama
06. I Got The Blues
07. My Daily Wish
08. You Do Not Know What Love Is All About
09. Coming From The Old School
10. Country Boy
11. Money Is My Downfall
12. After Hours When The Joint Is Closed
13. Packing Up My Blues
14. Let You Bring Me Down Slowly

Sam Myers - vocals, harmonica, bass
Alec Fraser - bass
Mel Brown - guitar, piano
Jack de Keyzer - guitar
Pat Carey - saxophone
Michael Fonfara - piano, organ
Jimmy Boudreau - drums