Bloggin’ The Blues - Roll With The New
You might have noticed I spent a good portion of last week obsessing over the 2007 BMAs. Now that the BMAs are over, I’m starting to work through some current blues releases.
I just wrote a review of the Jimmy Burns live album. The blues is a music style that is often best experienced in a live setting, which is one reason why there are so many live blues albums — the other being that live albums are often cheaper to produce than studio sets. It’s one of the beautiful contradictions of the blues that songs filled with so much authentic pain and emotion is often delivered with flamboyant showmanship.
It can be a dangerous thing to hear live versions of songs before hearing their studio counterpart because even if an artist does nothing but skillfully duplicate every lick and note from the record, there is still an energy that comes through when a song is performed live. It will be he hard to hear such standouts as “Leaving Here Walking” and “Miss Annie Lou” any other way, but this first introduction to Jimmy Burns was too good for it to be my last.
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