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Records would put together such a been elevated to stardom as featured MARK SCEURMAN All Aboard! MANAGING EDITOR compilation. Hey, it don’t matter if you soloist in the bands of Monk and Miles, DANIEL ALLEVA Peter Ward is on the Train To Key ain’t up to speed on what’s happening but it is on these exact 37 recordings CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Biscayne (Gandy Dancer Records) with across the pond, you can still dance to where he zoomed off into the JAMES CAMPION an all-star crew of top-notch A- this stuff. stratosphere. Please note that this is MIKE GREENBLATT TIM LOUIE Listers. This all-original 12-track gem, not the sixties Trane that went off the JOHN PFEIFFER PATRICK SLEVIN the follow-up to his 2017 Blues On My rails into the kind of cosmic slop that CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Shoulders debut, features some of the oftentimes made him unlistenable. No, AMANDA FERRANTE BATISTA Canada Calling this is a precursor to all that. Pristine. MICHAEL CAVACINI Adventurous. Bold. And he did it with RACHAEL CICCONE From his 2013 Rust Bucket to his CHARLEY CRESPO musicians who would go on to be SAMANTHA CURRELI 2016 Monkey Brain , Toronto singer- leaders and stars in their own right: ALESSANDRA DONNELLY songwriter and guitarist Sean Pinchin AMY EBELING trumpeters Donald Byrd, Wilbur Harden, GLYN EMMERSON has become one of Canada’s premier followings, they teamed up to be and Freddie Hubbard, bassist Paul ROBERT GLUCK bluesmen. Now, he’s gone off and done Wanted on these 12 tracks (which ALISON GRAVES Chambers, drummers Art Taylor, Jimmy includes a terrific reworking of Robert JESSICA GUICA some real Bad Things . These three STEPHANIE GUIDA Cobb, and Louis Hayes, all from Lockwood’s 1974 “Funny But True”). DOKTOR JOHN sessions at legendary producer Rudy Johnny plays , Quique plays harp, JENNIFER KAJZER MORGAN MAGID Van Gelder’s home studio in and they both sing (Quique used to RYAN M CGRATH Hackensack. Blues. Bebop. Standards. sing Sinatra songs in Madrid with a GREGG M cQUEEN GIORGIO MUSTICA Ballads. Didn’t matter. Critic Ira Gitler Spanish big-band). Add drums and VERONICA RAJADNYA famously dubbed these sessions as bass, trombone, , and , BRYAN REESMAN guys from the band of Muddy Waters DANIELLE SARIYAN “sheets of sound.” Get on this Trane! and you’ve got an instant party. These DEBRA KATE SCHAFER plus some of New England’s finest. two guys know how to blues it up to ANDREA SEASTRAND , Sugar Ray Norcia, Guitar HAL SELZER the max. MARIA SHIELDS Junior, Johnny Nicholas, Anthony LEANNE ACIZ STANTON Geraci, and Evil Gal Willson get to shine DANI TAUBER Where The Blues OLIVIA TAUBNER both instrumentally and vocally in front CARMEN TRIOLA of the house band which has Peter’s & Gospel Collide STEVE TRUGLIO Duo Extraordinaire: SONNY WHELDON brother, Mudcat Ward, on bass. Harry Manx and Steve Marriner have TINA WHELSKI covers and five originals burn with style KAM WILLIAMS Highlights include the Eubie Blake- put together a sumptuous sound for No Rhythm Section LEAD PHOTOGRAPHER and flair. Just months before his death, inspired “As Long As I Have A Chance,” their new duo, the Manx Marriner MARK WEISS “Devil Got My Woman,” in 1968, was Needed! CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS and the album opener “The Luther Mainline. As solo artists, they’ve each the last song that the legendary Electric guitarist Bill Frisell and acoustic KELSEY AYRES Johnson Thing” (sung by Johnson commanded their own followings as Mississippi Delta bluesman Skip James bassist Thomas Morgan have upped ANTHONY COSENTINO himself, a former Muddy sideman). GLYN EMMERSON Texan Nicholas sings two. The Evil Gal ever recorded. Pinchin’s cover features the ante on their follow up to the brilliant NADINE JOY his signature Resonator slide played 2017 Small Town duo debut. Epistrophy MICHELE TERRY sings two. It’s a democratic free-for-all. STEVE TRUGLIO in a moody mode as the song builds in Ward, known as Hi-Fi in Boston, where (ECM) is dreamy, heavenly, complex, ADPVRERILTI SWINOG RDIORENCOTOWR ICZ intensity. Conversely, “Nobody’s Fault satisfying, and unlike anything else he’s the town’s blues kingpin, plays MICHELLE DENHOLTZ bass on two, sings one, and plays a But Mine,” in 1927, was the very first PRINT ART DIRECTOR song Blind Willie Johnson ever recorded. chunky, rhythmic guitar with splashes APRNOGDUECLTAIO NT DEEISXIGENIREAR Having the kind of chops that can only of electricity like lightning when he solos DEB KERRIGAN throughout. Highly recommended. be honed by over 250 shows a year in CIRCULATION-MARKETING each of the last two years, drummer PHIL FIUMANO Mary-Jane Luvite and bassist, producer, BRUCE HOLLAND CHARLES PIZZUTA and co-writer Rob Szabo are skin-tight, ANDREW LAZZAROTTI TED SHIKO London Calling giving this slide master not only room CREATIVE DIRECTOR to move, but acreage of space in which

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