Lil' Ed and The Blues Imperials – Jump Start (CD)
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Lil Ed Williams learned slide guitar at the feet of his half-uncle J.B. Hutto, one of Chicago's most electrifying postwar bluesmen, and that raw, house-rocking lineage runs through every note he plays. A fixture on the Chicago blues club circuit since the 1980s, Williams brings the kind of lived-in authenticity that can't be taught, only inherited and earned over decades of sweaty, Saturday-night gigs on the North Side.
The band's wildly energetic and seriously soulful new CD JUMP START is jam-packed with Lil' Ed's incendiary slide playing and rough, passionate singing, as the ragged-but-right Blues Imperials cook like mad alongside him. Produced by Williams and Alligator president Bruce Iglauer, it is a tour-de-force of untamed slide guitar, rock solid rhythms, heartrending ballads and authentic deep blues vocals. Williams wrote or co-wrote 13 of the album's 14 songs, ranging from the non-stop boogie blast of ''If You Were Mine'' to the heart-on-his-sleeve honesty of ''Life Is A Journey'' to the bouncing and jazzy ''Jump Right In'' to the swaggering, autobiographical ''Musical Mechanical Electrical Man.''
Tracklist
UPC: 014551494928
Label: Alligator Records
Release Date: 6.5.12
Format: CD