Hører snart denne R2D4 (se nedenstående sakset fra Stereophile) er scoret ovenikøbet PÅ VINYL. (jeg havde været tilfreds med cd'en).
ROBERT BAIRD
JIMMY ROGERS: Ludella
Antone's ANT0012 (CD) 1990. Clifford Antone, exec. prod.; Kim Wilson, prod.; Derek O'Brien, asst. prod. No engs. listed. ADD? TT: 52:27
Despite the lawyerly, bean-counting, and often despicable thing it has become, the music business was once a different place, populated by genuine characters, and few were as rare and generous and full-throttle devoted to music as Clifford Jamal Antone. In 1975, he opened the first Antone's club in Austin, Texas, with a show by Clifton Chenier. Although it moved locations several times, Antone's became a routine stop for road shows and the nexus for Austin's once-vaunted blues scene, cultivating such local talent as the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the great Lou Ann Barton, whose 1989 album, Read My Lips, on the Antone's Records label, is a stone classic. Though he lost control of the club thanks to brushes with the law in 1984 and 1996, Antone remained active in booking it, and also in the larger Austin music scene. This past spring, following a South By Southwest at which he was energized and ebullient, Antone died unexpectedly on May 23 in Austin at the age of 56. As anyone who ever heard one of his rhapsodic stage introductions knows, there will never be another like him. I dedicate this "R2D4" entry to this bear of a man, who, while he may have had some smarmy sides—he was a club owner, after all—was also a blues nut of the first order: what Austin writer John T. Davis called "as much an evangelist as an entrepreneur."
Released at what was arguably the peak of his now-dormant but still-in-print label, this pair of albums represents the work of some of Clifford's favorite musicians. Jimmy Rogers' Ludella, recorded half in the studio and half live at the club, is electric Chicago blues at its best. The proceedings are enlivened by players like pianist Pinetop Perkins (who's now 92, and was in Austin being looked after by Antone when he died), harp player Kim Wilson, and, on the live cuts, guitarist Hubert Sumlin. Rogers standards like "Rock This House" and "Chicago Bound" have never sounded better. And you gotta love the unreadable black-on-dark-blue cover art.
mvh. SES.
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. Igor Stravinsky
Vi har alle lært at skjule vore fordomme, og vi viser ikke vore forkerte meninger. PO Enquist 1976.