Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice - Acid Blue (1995)

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Title: Acid Blue
Year Of Release: 1995
Label: Fantasy
Genre: Jump Blues, Jazzy Blues
Quality: Mp3 320 / APE (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 60:08
Total Size: 160/401 Mb (scans)
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Greg Piccolo & Heavy Juice - Acid Blue (1995)


Tracklist:

1. Peacock Alley
2. Sign Language
3. Always a First Time
4. Smoothin' for Lester
5. Who Do You Think You're Foolin
6. Someday After Awhile (You'll Be Sorry)
7. Bottoms Up
8. I Can Do This All Night Long
9. Tuff Guy
10. Rock Me Baby
11. Cool Mambo
12. Keep on Tryin

Greg Piccolo - Guitar, Sax (Tenor), Vocals
Ron Levy - Piano, Organ (Hammond)
Larry Peduzzi - Guitar (Bass)
Billy Klock - Drums
Rob Fried - Percussion...

The second solo album by Greg Piccolo is a skilled tenor saxophonist, singer and composer, one of the founders and leaders of Roomful of Blues. On this disc Greg also recorded guitar parts (and did it, by the way, very well!), And he helps the group Heavy Juice, named after his first solo album. As part of the group on the keys and the ageless Hammond B3, Greg's old companion is the masterful rumfunker Ron Levy.

The second solo album has more vocal tracks - 7 out of 12, five author's tracks, and the rest of the covers. Arrangements are not so saturated, so the game of Greg and Ron Levy comes to the fore. The disc is quite diverse stylistically: blues, jamp-blues, funk, jazz, reggae, mambo, pop. The first half, perhaps, is more interesting (more jazz and blues), in the second half the more pop-component is more pronounced. Played professionally, recorded qualitatively, the impression is generally good.