Lightning in a Bottle is the double-disc soundtrack to the documentary film of the same title directed by Antoine Fuqua and shot at a February 7, 2003, concert at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Billed as a "Salute to the Blues," the show featured veteran blues musicians as well as a younger generation of players and artists either directly working in the genre or deeply influenced by it, and the running order follows the evolution of blues from Africa, up the Mississippi, and through Chicago and beyond.
With a house band of Steve Jordan and/or Levon Helm on drums, Dr. John on piano, Willie Weeks on bass, and Danny Kortchmar on guitar, Lightning in a Bottle has quite a few high points, including Macy Gray's version of Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog," Bonnie Raitt's "Coming Home," and the deep Southern gospel soul of Solomon Burke on "Turn On Your Love Light." Also impressive is David "Honeyboy" Edwards' stark and haunting solo acoustic rendering of "Gamblin' Man." Mavis Staples arguably stole the show, however, with her huge, shuffling, and ominous take on Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean."
The shifts and mutations of the blues from an acoustic music to an electric one are traced, ending in Chuck D and the Fine Art Militia's thundering rap version of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom."
CD 1:
01. Angelique Kidjo / Senie Zelie
02. Mavis Staples / See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
03. David "Honeyboy" Edwards / Gamblin' Man
04. Keb' Mo' / Love In Vain
05. James "Blood" Ulmer & Alison Krauss / Sittin' On Top of The World
06. Odetta / Jim Crow Blues
07. Natalie Cole / St. Louis Blues
08. Natalie Cole, Mavis Staples & Ruth Brown / Men Are Just Like Street Cars
09. Buddy Guy / I Can't Be Satisfied
10. India Arie / Strange Fruit
11. Macy Gray / Hound Dog
12. John Fogerty / The Midnight Special
13. Larry Johnson / Where'd You Get That Sound
CD 2:
01. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown / Okie Dokie Stomp
02. Bonnie Raitt / Coming Home
03. Gregg Allman & Warren Haynes / The Sky Is Crying
04. Steven Tyler & Joe Perry / I'm a King Bee
05. Buddy Guy / First Time I Met The Blues
06. The Neville Brothers / Big Chief
07. Shemekia Copeland & Robert Cray / I Pity The Fool
08. David Johansen & Hubert Sumlin / Killing Floor
09. Solomon Burke / Turn On Your Love Light
10. Solomon Burke / Down In The Valley
11. Angelique Kidjo, Buddy Guy & Vernon Reid / Voodoo Child
12. Mos Def / Minnesota Blues (aka "Black Jack Blues")
13. Chuck D. & The Fine Arts Militia / (No) Boom Boom
14. B.B. King / Sweet Sixteen
Media Info:
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Channels: joint stereo
Samplerate: 44100
Encoder: LAME 3.99
MPEG-1 layer 3
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