Billy Branch & The Sons Of Blues (USA)
"Roots And Branches
The Songs Of Little Walter"
Alligator Records - 2019
07/03/2019
Billy Branch
& the SONS OF BLUES
cHICAGO BLUES TREASURE
Musicians:
Billy Branch - harmonica, vocals
Sumito "Ariyo" Arioshi - piano
Giles Corey - guitar (except Track 12)
Marvin Little - bass
Andrew "Blaze" Thomas - drums
Shoji Naito - guitar (Track 12)
Tracklist:
01 - Nobody but You 3:07
02 - Mellow Down Easy 4:31
03 - Roller Coaster 3:15
04 - Blue and Lonesome 4:11
05 - Hate to See You Go 4:57
06 - My Babe 4:54
07 - Juke 3:19
08 - Last Night 5:03
09 - Just Your Fool / Key to the Highway 3:23
10 - Boom Boom out Go the Lights 3:38
11 - It's Too Late Brother 3:15
12 - One More Chance with You 4:00
13 - You're so Fine 3:32
14 - Blues with a Feeling 4:26
15 - Remembering Little Walter by Marion Diaz (Little Walter's Daughter) 2:43
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COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY
The harmonica has been from the origins of blues music, an instrument without which the development of the twelve bars would not have been possible as it has reached to this day. John Lee Williamson, Sony Boy Williamson I, Little Walter, Big Walter Horton, Junior Wells, James Cotton or Carey Bell modernized their use in the 40s and 50s in Chicago and their relief has reached today with musicians such as Sugar Blue, Bob Corritore or this case Billy Branch. This album is more than a tribute to the most transcendent blues harmonica of Chicago, Branch has updated fifteen Walter's classics in a very honest and personal way, without too much protocol and straight to the heart. Modern Chicago blues in purest form.
