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116,081 - Total Helpful Votes: 10 of 12
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
My girlfriend bought this for me, knowing that I like blues. And that's essentially what this is, a blues album. Tracks such as 'Prophet's mission' have the syncopated rolling beats of trace blues that are the north missisipi roots of becomes R&B in the modern puff daddy etc sense.
Suprises such as 'Bow Legged Charlie' reminds me of Ray Charles in his western mode - indeed, the same Ray Charles of the piano blues and blues brothers released several country and western albums in the 70s and some tracks here are similar in flavour, a funkified country music that reclaims the influence that black musicians had on the earliest white country folk.
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