Chris
Cotton – I Watched The Devil Die
{2005 | Yellow Dog Records} “Chris
Cotton’s Yellow Dog Records debut sounds
like a house party caught on tape – world-weary
men effortlessly strumming their guitars and
bass, while passing around a jug of whiskey
for sustenance.”
America/Blues
guitarist Chris Cottons debut solo album includes
12 songs.
Track Listing:
1. Morgan City, Mississippi
– a bit of piano, whiskey jug like bass.
2. Come On – fairly traditional
delta acoustic.
3. I Watched The Devil Die
– finger pick’in good with long
instrumental intro.
4. Dying Crapshooter’s Blues
– just guitar and vocal, this is crossroad
music.
5. That’s It –
fast paced country instrumental with ho-down
fiddlin’ joined by the mandola/banjo.
6. I’m So Glad –
vocals with a deep growl.
7. Was it low? – musically,
the song is low acoustic and bass, vocally,
Cotton takes it high.
8. Black Night (featuring Big
Jack Johnson) – I liked this song best,
it was mighty fine y’all.
9. Louis Collins – a
slow, gospel-like tune done acoustically with
moving vocals.
10. Blues for Big Bill –
fiddle over bluesy shuffle, variety of vocal
contributions.
11. Bill Bailey – this
is a flashback of seventy years back to the
roots of blues.
12. Goin’ Back Home –
beautiful guitar playing on this ballad. I also
liked this track a lot.
If
you like good ol’ country and traditional
blues, then you’ll dig this recording. It’s
fairly mellow and 100% blues. It’s not the
cookie cutter blues CD being released, it’s
very traditional at parts. Rating 4.321.
Ciao’
for now, peace.
Cornbread
Cornbread@stlblues.net
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