Craig Horton - Touch Of The Bluesman (2004)

Artist: Craig Horton
Title Of Album: Touch Of The Bluesman
Year Of Release: 2004
Label (Catalog#) :Bad Daddy [659428-0022-28]
Country:: USA
Genre: Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue,log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 00:46:45
Full Size: 310mb(+3%)

Oakland-area bluesman Craig Horton's released another sure-fire blues winner in his latest Bad Daddy CD, Touch of the Bluesman. There's good reasons why the Bay Area Blues Society voted Craig Horton the 2004 Blues Guitar Player of the Year and the 2004 Blues Band of the Year, and you'll hear them on this CD. There's a dozen cuts of electric blues that should get Craig Horton some well-deserved publicity outside the greater San Francisco bay blues community. The hard-charging "Life of Luxury," or the slow and simmering "Elizabeth" bookend Horton's considerable blues gifts: he's equally adept at tearing up the fretboard as well as singing a slow blues ballad steeped in lost love. Producer Rusty Zinn (yes, the same Rusty Zinn that's recorded on Alligator and performed with Kim Wilson and Nick Moss) captures Horton with a crisp and balanced sound, and his liner notes tell it all about "a great bluesman and a true original." Right on, Rusty.

Tracks:
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01. Find Another Fool
02. Life of Luxury
03. Burnin'
04. Elizabeth
05. 10 Years Gone
06. That Little Girl Can Dance
07. Damn Money
08. Serves Me Right to Suffer
09. Wanda Jean
10. Reachin' for Shadows
11. Ain't Gonna Take It
12. Lovestruck

Personnel:
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Craig Horton (vocals, guitar)
Angila Witherspoon (vocals)
Steve Gannon (guitar)
Bernard Anderson (baritone saxophone)
Mike McCurdy, Randy Bermudes (bass guitar)
Scott Silveira (drums)
Frank Fontaine (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone)
Carl Green (tenor saxophone)
Wendell Kelly (trumpet, tenor trombone, bass trombone)
Chris Burns (organ, keyboards)
Richard Torres (percussion)