Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers - Solid Ice (2007)

Artist: Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers
Title Of Album: Solid Ice
Year Of Release: 2007
Label (Catalog#) :Telarc BluesCD-83661
Country: USA
Genre Modern Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+cue,log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 62:51
Full Size: 382Mb(+3%)(covers)
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Solid Ice is the kind of work that gives professionalism a good name. Jimmy Thackery founded the Nighthawks, an electric blues band, in the 1970s, leaving it in the late 1980s to go off on his own with accompanying musicians known generically as the Drivers. Always a good songwriter, Thackery outdoes himself here with well-crafted tunes with lyrics which only appear simple (e.g., "XXX Wife," which sounds like a joke but which proves to be a rueful, complex exploration into the riddles of marriage, divorce and adult sexuality), set to guitar lines that slink or burn or soothe or rock out as the occasion demands.

When Thackery takes time out to jam, as in the title piece and in the terrific "Hobart's Blues," no wanking is to be detected anywhere. To the contrary, here's a master doing what masters do.

Tracks:
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1. Hit The Big Time - 4:22
2. How Long - 3:46
3. Fifteen Minutes - 5:11
4. Hobart's Blues - 6:50
5. Daze In May - 5:22
6. Blue Tears - 5:35
7. X X X Wife - 6:41
8. One Or The Other - 8:06
9. Solid Ice - 9:09
10. Blue Tears Reprise - 2:13
11. Who Knows - 4:53

Personnel:
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Bass – Mark "Bumpy Rhodes" Bumgarner
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Mark Stutso
Guitar, Vocals – Jimmy Thackery

All thanks to original releaser