Chris James & Patrick Rynn – Gonna Boogie Anyway (Earwig Music).
Gonna Boogie Anyway is the second album for Earwig Music from the San Diego based duo an follows their Blues Music Award nominated debut, Stop And Think About It. Traditional Chicago and Delta styles supplemented by some jump blues is what they are all about and Gonna Boogie Anyway does not disappoint. Opening with Money Don’t Like Me they lay down a gritty vocal from James and his guitar snaps from the outset. It’s a straightforward opener that gets your attention. Dearest Darling is an up-tempo and a bouncy boogie is followed by You Can’t Trust Nobody, a wonderfully deconstructed classic chugging blues. Life Couldn’t Be Sweeter is another upbeat one with slide guitar from James and barrelhouse piano from Henry Gray showing that the boys sure do know how to enjoy themselves. H.M. Stomp is a guitar and harmonica (Bob Corritore) instrumental and Gray also gets himself heavily involved on piano. The pace is relentless on this one. Headed Out West is a standard Chicago blues, well played by two true exponents.
Can’t Stand To See You Go is a shuffling blues with top notch harp from Rob Stone and piano from the aforementioned Henry Gray. The eponymous title track does what it says on the tin -- a piano boogie-woogie of high impact. This is followed by The Tables Have Turned, which is another is another that chugs along with great piano. Money Don’t Like Me Part 2 is a further instrumental, guitar led with saxophone input from Jonny Viau. It’s sedately paced but it is high in quality. The penultimate song, Black Spider Blues, is a Delta blues played in a classic style. They keep it simple and that’s the key. To close off they give us Little Girl, which is a rolling blues and good fun as well.
If you can’t have a fun time with Chris James and Patrick Rynn then you are just not trying.
http://www.chrisjamesandpatrickrynn.com/
http://www.earwigmusic.com/
David Blue.
Gonna Boogie Anyway is the second album for Earwig Music from the San Diego based duo an follows their Blues Music Award nominated debut, Stop And Think About It. Traditional Chicago and Delta styles supplemented by some jump blues is what they are all about and Gonna Boogie Anyway does not disappoint. Opening with Money Don’t Like Me they lay down a gritty vocal from James and his guitar snaps from the outset. It’s a straightforward opener that gets your attention. Dearest Darling is an up-tempo and a bouncy boogie is followed by You Can’t Trust Nobody, a wonderfully deconstructed classic chugging blues. Life Couldn’t Be Sweeter is another upbeat one with slide guitar from James and barrelhouse piano from Henry Gray showing that the boys sure do know how to enjoy themselves. H.M. Stomp is a guitar and harmonica (Bob Corritore) instrumental and Gray also gets himself heavily involved on piano. The pace is relentless on this one. Headed Out West is a standard Chicago blues, well played by two true exponents.
Can’t Stand To See You Go is a shuffling blues with top notch harp from Rob Stone and piano from the aforementioned Henry Gray. The eponymous title track does what it says on the tin -- a piano boogie-woogie of high impact. This is followed by The Tables Have Turned, which is another is another that chugs along with great piano. Money Don’t Like Me Part 2 is a further instrumental, guitar led with saxophone input from Jonny Viau. It’s sedately paced but it is high in quality. The penultimate song, Black Spider Blues, is a Delta blues played in a classic style. They keep it simple and that’s the key. To close off they give us Little Girl, which is a rolling blues and good fun as well.
If you can’t have a fun time with Chris James and Patrick Rynn then you are just not trying.
http://www.chrisjamesandpatrickrynn.com/
http://www.earwigmusic.com/
David Blue.
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