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vocals, Rusty Zinn on slide guitar and Kim Wilson on harp - outstanding! Colorado bluesmen AJ
Fullerton with Jake Friel on harp does a nice acoustic blues 'Change is Invevitable' and there's more
harp/guitar blues with 'Recipe for Love' with the amazing Bobby Rush and Vasti Jackson.

Sadly the record includes one of the last performances by the late great James Harman on 'Going To
Court' with guitarists Kid Ramos and Landon Stone, 'Go' features Jon Lawton on guitar/vocals with
Virginia harp player Andrew Ali and the old blues classic 'Every Day I Have The Blues' has Lurrie
Bell paired with harp master Mark Hummel. 'Brazilian Brothel' (?) features Richard 'Rip Lee' Pryor,
son of the legendary harp player Snooky Pryor and 'Bad Bad Girl' is an actual porch blues with
Johnny Burgin on guitar and vocals and Holiday on harp. Rae Gordon belts out her own song “Find
Me When The Sun Goes Down,’ with fellow West Coast players Ben Rice and Dave Melyan and then

Rice steps up to front the shuffle 'That’ s How I Learned’. 'The instrumental 'Cake Walk' features
Dennis Gruenling and Mark Hummel with interlocking electric blues harps then JD Taylor (of the
Little Boys Blue) sings and plays with his son Alex on 'Family Tree' while Memphis band Southern
Avenue deliver the gospel-tinged 'Peace Will Come' which is a nice contrast to the other blues
songs. There is some great playing throughout here but I felt that this Volume two didn't have the

raw charm of the first album and I missed the actual porch recordings which may have been a bit of
a gimmick but they really captured the spirit of the early blues field recordings.

Graham Harrison

Adia Victoria—A Southern Gothic—Atlantic Mod ASIN :
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There is some surprisingly good modern blues coming out of

Nashville recently, both people going there to record and actual
residents like Adia Victoria. As suggested in the title this record
isn't just a collection of songs it is a whole evocation of the black
experience in the American south - it's manifestly blues but it is
very original, listen to opener 'Magnolia Blues' this isn't a 12-bar
blues, ditto the haunting 'Mean Hearted Woman' - “After all the
pain you put me through, you better hope I don’t catch up with

you". 'You Was Born to Die' is like an updated field holler with
Kyshona Armstrong and Margo Price helping out on vocals and Jason Isbell adding slide guitar,
while 'Troubled Mind' is an eery update of blues classic 'Trouble in Mind'.

T Bone Burnett is in the producer's chair and the whole album has a real rootsy sound, albeit with
modern production values - listen to the hill country blues meets rap of 'Far From Dixie' and the
lilting charm of 'Please Come Down'. On the etherial 'My Oh My' Adia is joined on vocals by Stone

Jack Jones and on the pretty ‘South for the Winter’ Matt Berninger (from The National) shares the
vocals with Adia and Margo Price. Both 'Deep Water Blues' and 'Carolina Bound' combine bluesy
country blues backing with sweet vocals, reminding me of Valerie June. I found this an evocative
record that certainly conjures up the novels of William Faulkner but does it in an original way that
doesn't rely on blues cliches and the obvious country blues sounds.

Seth James Different Hat Tiny Ass Records ?

Looking at the cover Seth with his 10-gallon hat looks like a country singer in the George Strait
mould but the first track here ‘Marmarita’ is a fabulous funky shuffle like Little Feat and 'Solid
Gold Plated Fool’ is a Delbert McClinton R&B rocker that Delbert suggested Seth record. The album