Johnny Adams - One Foot In The Blues (1996)
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Artist: Johnny Adams
Title: One Foot In The Blues
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: Rounder Records
Genre: Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, Scans)
Total Time: 52:22
Total Size: 287 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist: Title: One Foot In The Blues
Year Of Release: 1996
Label: Rounder Records
Genre: Blues
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue, log, Scans)
Total Time: 52:22
Total Size: 287 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Won't Pass Me By (4:23)
02. One Foot In The Blues (6:36)
03. Baby Don't You Cry (5:20)
04. Ill Wind (3:16)
05. Roadblock (4:51)
06. Angel Eyes (3:40)
07. Half Awake (7:37)
08. I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone (5:49)
09. Two Years Of Torture (3:45)
10. Cookin' In Style (3:15)
11. I Know What I've Got (3:49)
Johnny Adams is renowned for his smoky but smooth voice, but One Foot in the Blues is as much a showcase for Lonnie Smith's Hammond B-3 organ, which sounds like a living, breathing creature. The spare, mostly live-in-the-studio production allows plenty of wide open sonic space for Smith's expressive organ (including his pulsating bass pedal), Ed Peterson's after-hours tenor sax, and Jimmy Ponder's gentle guitar fills. While Adams' most fervent champions thrill to his every note, others may find his singing mannered on the ballads that dominate this session, and his voice is certainly huskier than in the days when he earned the sobriquet "the Tan Canary." As the title suggests, the CD is only partly blues; Adams' other "foot" here, as on his previous '90s recordings, is placed squarely between the cabaret-jazz crooning of Johnny Hartman and the soul-pop styling of Lou Rawls.