Bill Black's Combo - Basic Black (1970) [Hi-Res 192kHz]

It's Memphis now. And Beale Street a while back. It's cotton carnivals and steamboats-'round-the-bend. It's sportin’ life and free spirits, roustabout guitars and lowdown dirty blues. Sugar cane. Bluegrass. Et cetera. Above all, It's Bill Black's Combo smack dab in the middle of the music of today.

Bill Black's Combo has been making long-time contact with the feel and frenzy of the era of joy that was Memphis then and is the celebrated bounce and beat of what's going on. This small band of disciples has a whole perspective that communes with inspired flamboyance and rock-ribbed implication. It is touched with a profusion of vitality. It rides.

The Combo is a great invention. The pulse never subsides. The taste is never dulled. In this album it has pul together a multi-decked sandwich of majestic hits and singular originals that is at once a throwback to an epoch and a toss into tomorrow. It stirs up adventurous amalgams with the chart-honored Everybody's Out of Town, The Beatles’ Let It Be and Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay. It strikes up a tingle of exultation with new melodies. It unshackles your reserve. It shakes you right down to your essentials.

Bill Black's Combo was part of the heat and glare of the Presley Phenomenon. The beat of Bill Black s bass was totally agitating, intensely alive, personal, direct. The certainty of the bass is still here. For the first time, the Combo has embarked on using voices, the Memphis Belles on Paul Simon's Keep the Customer Satisfied.

You don't need a Rand-McNally map to plan a trip to the vitality of the Memphis magic. The aura is here In bounteous quantity. The spots before your eyes are full of bubbles and hospitality. The sound of Bill Black's Combo is the nobility of the inhabitants, the ease and simplicity of the illusions of reminiscence. You can whiff the aroma of magnolias, breathe deeply the reality of down-home refreshment.

Just follow where Bill Black's Combo leads. You'll bounce your way to an era of joy, to the beat of the existing, to the brink of delightful delirium. ~Mort Goode

Tracklist:
01. Bill Black's Combo - Everybody's Out of Town (02:17)
02. Bill Black's Combo - Free and Funky (02:25)
03. Bill Black's Combo - Let It Be (03:57)
04. Bill Black's Combo - A Black Experience (02:30)
05. Bill Black's Combo - Lay Lady Lay (03:32)
06. Bill Black's Combo - Put Out My Fire (02:24)
07. Bill Black's Combo - Keep the Customer Satisfied (02:37)
08. Bill Black's Combo - Rainy Night In Georgia (03:33)
09. Bill Black's Combo - Here Comes That Old Feeling Again (03:07)
10. Bill Black's Combo - Venus (02:47)
11. Bill Black's Combo - I'm So Glad You're You (03:12)