Paul Orta & Tonky De La Pena – Pawn Shop Blues (Great Recordings).
Paul Orta (Port Arthur, Texas, USA) and Tonky De La Pena (Madrid, Spain) arrived at the studio with a Hohner harmonica and a Martin D28 guitar in hand, sat down and recorded Pawn Shop Blues. There were no amplifiers used and it harks back to the old Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee format. The eponymous opener is a slow Delta blues and is a great start to the album. Muddy Waters’ Catfish Blues features slide guitar and Tonky takes over on the vocal. Talk To Your Daughter is a full harmonica blues with Orta back on vocal. However, I don’t think that the dog noises are necessary on this JB Lenoir song. Ponme Otro Whiskey is sung in Spanish but I’d have preferred the Scottish spelling of Whisky. Otherwise, it’s a standard guitar and harp blues. Boogie The Woogie is a lung bursting stunner and the classic Jimmy Reed song Bright Light, Big City has piercing harmonica from Orta.
Voodoo Mama is in Spanish again and is strange yet compelling. Willie Dixon’s Bring It On Home has more echoes of McGhee & Terry and Feel So Bad is a classic guitar and harp blues, written by Lightning Hopkins. Oh Susanne is more of the same, only slower and the last of the Spanish songs, Vaga Bundo, is upbeat. It is appropriate that the final track is Tribute To Sonny Terry and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It is an excellent tribute and a wonderful end to a thoroughly entertaining album.
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Paul Orta (Port Arthur, Texas, USA) and Tonky De La Pena (Madrid, Spain) arrived at the studio with a Hohner harmonica and a Martin D28 guitar in hand, sat down and recorded Pawn Shop Blues. There were no amplifiers used and it harks back to the old Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee format. The eponymous opener is a slow Delta blues and is a great start to the album. Muddy Waters’ Catfish Blues features slide guitar and Tonky takes over on the vocal. Talk To Your Daughter is a full harmonica blues with Orta back on vocal. However, I don’t think that the dog noises are necessary on this JB Lenoir song. Ponme Otro Whiskey is sung in Spanish but I’d have preferred the Scottish spelling of Whisky. Otherwise, it’s a standard guitar and harp blues. Boogie The Woogie is a lung bursting stunner and the classic Jimmy Reed song Bright Light, Big City has piercing harmonica from Orta.
Voodoo Mama is in Spanish again and is strange yet compelling. Willie Dixon’s Bring It On Home has more echoes of McGhee & Terry and Feel So Bad is a classic guitar and harp blues, written by Lightning Hopkins. Oh Susanne is more of the same, only slower and the last of the Spanish songs, Vaga Bundo, is upbeat. It is appropriate that the final track is Tribute To Sonny Terry and it does exactly what it says on the tin. It is an excellent tribute and a wonderful end to a thoroughly entertaining album.
http://www.great-recordings.com/
http://home.hetnet.nl/~porta/index.html
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