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Rick Estrin & The Nightcats – Contemporary (CD)

$ 21.95
$ 21.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Rick Estrin has been one of the sharpest wits and most nimble harmonica players in the blues world for decades, honing his craft on the West Coast circuit before leading his own band into the modern era. His songwriting has always carried a sly, street-level humor that puts him in rare company, closer to Leiber and Stoller than to straight-ahead traditionalists.

Rick Estrin & the Nightcats are back with their most expansive collection yet of brilliant blues and roots music filled with cunning songs and extraordinary musicianship. Contemporary celebrates the band's ability to use tough blues and raucous roadhouse rock as jumping off points for exhilarating new roots music. It's chock-full of originals that combine savvy songwriting, instrumental prowess and perpetual grooves into a distinctively modern blues sound, highlighted by the epic title track, a dizzying, Zappa-esque mash of Chicago blues, uptown funk, balls-out rocking and muscular rapping.

Tracklist
1. I'm Running (4:07)
2. Resentment File (5:19)
3. Contemporary (4:54)
4. She Nuts Up (4:17)
5. New Shape (Remembering Junior Parker) (4:42)
6. House Of Grease (5:31)
7. Root Of All Evil (4:12)
8. The Main Event (4:25)
9. Cupcakin' (4:06)
10. New Year's Eve (3:35)
11. Nothing But Love (3:02)
12. Bo Dee's Bounce (2:39)

UPC: 014551499626
Label: Alligator Records
Release Date: 9.20.19
Format: CD