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The Cash Box Kings – Oscar's Motel (CD)

$ 21.95
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Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Chicago's South and West Side blues tradition runs deep, and the Cash Box Kings have spent years earning their place in that lineage, not as revivalists but as true inheritors. Oscar Wilson and Joe Nosek lead a band that understands the difference between studying a genre and living inside it. Alligator Records, home to decades of essential electric blues, remains the right address for this kind of uncompromising work.

2023 release. The Cash Box Kings return with another enthusiastic celebration of Chicago blues in all it's electric forms. Not content to merely pay homage to the past, they mix contemporary authority and old-school authenticity, opening a door into the intoxicating spirit and sounds of 1950s and 1960s Chicago-based blues brought right up to the minute by the original songwriting of singer Oscar Wilson and harmonicist/singer Joe Nosek. Sparked by Wilson's commanding vocals and Nosek's blistering harp, Oscar's Motel brims with raw, unvarnished ensemble playing on hard-driving shuffles, funky workouts and pleading slow blues.

Tracklist
1. Oscar's Motel (2:46)
2. Down On The South Side (3:41)
3. Please Have Mercy (4:00)
4. I Can't Stand You (4:20)
5. Hot Little Mess (3:29)
6. Nobody Called It The Blues (3:33)
7. Pontiac Blues (1:57)
8. Trying So Hard (5:17)
9. She Dropped The Axe On Me (3:43)
10. I Want What Chaz Has (3:43)
11. Ride Santa Ride (2:15)

UPC: 014551501121
Label: Alligator Records
Release Date: 3.17.23
Format: CD