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Portrait Of The Blues (CD)

By: Lou Rawls (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Portrait Of The Blues (CD) Album By Lou Rawls (Artist)
1   I Just Want To Make Love To You
2   Lover's Question, A - (with Phoebe Snow)
3   Person To Person
4   Since I Met You Baby
5   I'm Still In Love With You
6   Snap Your Fingers
7   Baby What You Want Me To Do
8   Suffering With The Blues
9   Hide Nor Hair
10   Chains Of Love
11   My Babe
12   I Ain't Got Nothin' But The Blues
13   Save Your Love For Me
14   Saturday Night Fish Fry
15   Sweet Slumber
 

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Review

Q (3/93, p.90) - 3 Stars - Good - "...his most purposeful work in years..."
Down Beat (4/93, p.41) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...a suave and smooth affair....Rawls & Co. ably split the difference between jazz sophistication and bluesy swagger....a fine argument for the generous adaptability of the blues and jazz traditions, with gospel as the common ground..."

Title Note

Personnel: Lou Rawls (vocals); Steve Khan (guitar); Richard Tee (piano, electric piano, organ); Tinker Barfield (bass); Chris Parker (drums).

Benny Golson Horn Section: Jerome Richardson (alto saxphone); Ron Blake (tenor saxophone); Seldon Powell (baritone saxphone); Jon Faddis (trumpet); Jimmy Knepper (trombone).

Hank Crawford Horn Section: Hank Crawford (alto saxophone); David Newman (tenor saxophone); Seldon Powell (baritone saxophone); Tim Hagans (trumpet); Wayne Andre (trombone).

Additional guest artists: Cornell Dupree (guitar); Tom Pomposello (slide guitar); Hank Crawford (alto saxophone).

Recorded at M&I Recording Studios, New York; Streeterville Studios, Chicago, Illinois; Capitol Studios, Los Angeles from April to October, 1992.

PORTRAIT OF THE BLUES is a very classy roots album, with Rawls revisiting material by just about every artist that influenced the development of his own style (a conspicuous thematic exception being gospel acts). Here, backed by an interestingly eclectic bunch of blues and jazz musicians (Junior Wells and Lionel Hampton on the same album!) Rawls performs urbane and idiomatic renditions of songs associated with an equally eclectic bunch of singers.

Influences including Muddy Waters ("I Just Want to Make Love to You"), Clyde McPhatter ("A Lover's Question"), Jimmy Reed ("Baby What You Want Me to Do"), are all invoked here. Also included are Percy Mayfield ("Hide Nor Hair"), Little Walter ("My Babe"), and Louis Jordan (a thoroughly rocked out take on "Saturday Night Fish Fry").

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