Corey Harris & Henry Butler - Vü-Dü Menž
Styles: New Orleans Blues, Piano Blues, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
Released: 2000
Label: Alligator
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 124.2 MB
Time: 54:16
Art: front + back
1. Let 'em Roll - 4:17
2. If I Was Your Man - 4:39
3. Sugar Daddy - 2:39
4. There's No Substitute For Love - 4:13
5. King Cotton - 4:02
6. Mulberry Row - 3:34
7. Down Home Livin' - 3:43
8. Voodoo Man - 3:56
9. Song of the Pipelayer - 3:32
10. If You Let A Man Kick You Once - 4:14
11. L'esprit De James - 3:13
12. Shake What Your Mama Gave You - 3:22
13. Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel? - 2:33
14. What Man Have Done - 4:00
15. Why Don't You Live So God Can Use You? - 2:13
Personnel:
Corey Harris - vocals, guitar
Henry Butler - vocals, piano
Notes: This impressive album assures that New Orleans music will live strong and healthy into the next generation. A collaboration between a couple of once upstarts, now stalwarts of the new roots-music generation, this is good-time music. Corey Harris plays slide-steel guitar and about 90 other styles, slipping his strings between the 88 piano keys that Henry Butler dances across. On the collaborative tracks, which make up most of the album, their two instruments leave no room for others. They're tight as yarn, weaving together like a Mardi Gras Indian headdress. Each also makes solo performances. They've been compared to great partnerships like Tampa Red and Georgia Tom, but this suggests too much of a historical sound; Harris and Butler are thoroughly modern. Comparing them to Professor Longhair and Snooks Eaglin is accurate in spirit, but Vü-Dü Menz is so fun, no background is needed to enjoy it; even Martians would shake their hips to this much swing. ~ Robert Gordon
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Posted by muddyOznake: Corey Harris, Henry Butler, Piano Blues, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues
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