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CD Review
"Got My Eyes On You"
Barrellhouse Chuck And The All Star Blues Band
The Sirens Records SR-5104
by Craig Ruskey
13 tracks, 49 minutes. Highly recommended. It's almost impossible to
imagine (or find) modern blues this good in a time when it seems as though
the art form has been all but forgotten by the dwindling cast who manage to
play the music with its dynamic beauty still intact, but tossing
Barrelhouse Chuck in a recording studio with the likes of Kim Wilson, Joel
Foy, Eddie Taylor Jr., Calvin Jones, and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith was
nothing short of brilliant on the part of producer Steven Dolins. Although
the CD bears Chuck's name as the featured artist, he is a gifted
accompanist and sideman first and foremost - one who knows what subtlety
brings - and he plays brilliantly here with Wilson's harp, the buzzing
guitars, and drilling rhythm section as much to the fore as Goering's
wonderfully traditional keyboard work and vocals. Whether covering Floyd
Jones (Floyd's Blues/School Days), Detroit Junior (Call My Job), Sunnyland
Slim (It's You Baby), Big Moose Walker (The Bright Sounds Of Big Moose),
Big Smokey Smothers (Got My Eyes On You), and Muddy Waters (Just To Be With
You) among others, this all-star gathering delivers one of best blues discs
of 2006 without question. Essential, smoldering, and lowdown!
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