I did not believe until I heard the new album but Gregg Allman is really nice. Suspected that exercise was the usual kind of a star on Sunset Boulevard and instead Low Country Blues exudes passion and inspiration is not as remote from going to Gregg Allman Laid Back or since 1973. I speak of course of Gregg Allman's solo band because in the meantime with the musician in Nashville has continued to work wonders. Laid Back was permeated with a hard soul and beautiful ballads Southerners, Low Country Blues as the title suggests is instead of a hard blues, deep, heard, played without spectacle and bombast but intense beyond all expectation. Registered
before Gregg Allman was undergoing a liver transplant because of a tumor, Low Country Blues enjoys a superb production (T-Bone Burnett, according to Gregg the only one able to give him enthusiasm after the death of the trusted producer Tom Dowd) that stands out more with the additions with subtractions that an interpretation based on the heart of the blues, on a wide-ranging knowledge and skill with which you can bring up a more traditional music that was born in a rather complex study registration. Nothing
assoli plateali, nessuna ricercatezza formale, nessun esercizio vocale d’effetto, la voce di Gregg continua ad essere calda e pastosa, negroide anche se non più brillante come un tempo, i suoi interventi strumentali, con la chitarra acustica e con l’Hammond B3, pur misurati al millimetro suonano come una delizia per chi richiede un blues profondo, maturo, caldo, avvolgente, un blues che ha solidità di una quercia e la fluidità di un bourbon. Sia che risponda al beat di Floating Bridge di Sleepy John Estes, sia che riprenda con nuove vesti il classico di Skip James Devil Got My Woman , sia che porti in scena la potente I Can’ Be Satisfied dell’amato Muddy Waters, sia for establishing a dialogue with its past (Midnight Rider) through the verses and sounds of new Just Another Rider or wave decor gospel My Love Is Your Love the sound of the West Side of Chicago, Checking on My Baby Otis Rush, Low Country Blues gives joy, beauty and wellness.
Gregg Allman is superb, nothing in the Low Country Blues reeks of standard and routine, the way Rolling Stone is transformed almost beyond recognition, or what appeal there is jazz in Tears, Tears, Tears are signs of Amos Milburn artist still in love with his art despite the years, the deaths, the experiences are not always happy, health.
T-Bone Burnett has created around the team of musicians Gregg Allman best you could hope for, people interested in the collective result and not the exhibition entrance, people who shared moods, feeling, intent, spirit together. Dr. John with the divine plan even if we go and look between the lines, Doyle Bramhall II, a guitarist who deserves a separate article, also saw its contribution to the recent Clapton, the brass section, found in some tracks, the beatification of 'urban blues, Dennis Crouch on bass with the real architect of the sound of ancient and modern, this wonderful low country blues.
A round of applause also to the striking cover photo, those trees, those colors twilight and the streets wet from the rain that are worth more than a review nell'esemplificare the mood of this beautiful record.
Mauro Zambellini January 2011
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