Sharrie Williams & The Wiseguys – Live At The Bay-Car Blues Festival (Crosscut Records).
This performance is from the 2006 Bay-Car Festival which is held in the North West of France, near Dunkirk. Saginaw resident Williams blows away the audience with her explosive opener, Tell Mama. Lars Kutschke’s guitar rings on this funky version of Clarence Carter’s song that Big Mama Thornton made her own. Big Fall is medium paced soul but Kutschke does pick up the speed a little on his solo. How Much Can A Woman Take is a slow blues and Pietro Taucher steals the show on organ even though Kutschke does try to upstage him. The more I listen, the more he does. Power is all about the voice and builds into a pounding blues with lightning fast guitar breaks.
I’ll Take You There is funky soul and a long one at that. Hard Drivin Woman is a mid paced boogie and I’ll Give You Mine is a slow jazz burner. Just You And Me has Robin Rogers guesting on harmonica and vocals and is a good time blues on which harp and piano feature highly. The final track, Travellin’has a little bit of Bo Diddley in there before it becomes a singalong and then goes off into Gospel shouting before coming full circle back to the beat. Also available is an eight track DVD covering all of the songs on the album apart from Just You And Me. This shows you how much of a stage presence Sharrie Williams has.
http://www.sharriewilliams.com/
http://www.crosscut.de/
David Blue.
This performance is from the 2006 Bay-Car Festival which is held in the North West of France, near Dunkirk. Saginaw resident Williams blows away the audience with her explosive opener, Tell Mama. Lars Kutschke’s guitar rings on this funky version of Clarence Carter’s song that Big Mama Thornton made her own. Big Fall is medium paced soul but Kutschke does pick up the speed a little on his solo. How Much Can A Woman Take is a slow blues and Pietro Taucher steals the show on organ even though Kutschke does try to upstage him. The more I listen, the more he does. Power is all about the voice and builds into a pounding blues with lightning fast guitar breaks.
I’ll Take You There is funky soul and a long one at that. Hard Drivin Woman is a mid paced boogie and I’ll Give You Mine is a slow jazz burner. Just You And Me has Robin Rogers guesting on harmonica and vocals and is a good time blues on which harp and piano feature highly. The final track, Travellin’has a little bit of Bo Diddley in there before it becomes a singalong and then goes off into Gospel shouting before coming full circle back to the beat. Also available is an eight track DVD covering all of the songs on the album apart from Just You And Me. This shows you how much of a stage presence Sharrie Williams has.
http://www.sharriewilliams.com/
http://www.crosscut.de/
David Blue.
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