Al Lerman - Slow Burn (2016)

Tracklist

01. Don't Push Your Mess on Me
02. It Takes Me All Night Long
03. Bad Luck Blues
04. Gonna Have to Wait
05. Now That Your Man's Gone
06. Totally out of Whack
07. Younger Man Than Me
08. Any Way You Want
09. Tattoo Like You
10. Better off Taking Chances
11. Kokomo
12. Slow Burn



Al Lerman has a nice feel for the blues, and he does a yeoman’s work on this album. He writes the material, sing, plays both acoustic and electric guitar and blows a nasty harmonica. He gets support by Alec Fraser-Omar Tunnoch/b, Al Cross-Bucky Berger/dr and Lance Anderson/p with the feel keeping earthy and relaxed.

His voice is wonderfully rough and tumbled, and he mixes it well with the harp on lazy and slinky pieces like “It Takes Me All Night Long” and the steady “Gonna Have To Wait.” The team gets gritty with piano and acoustic guitar with “Totally Out Of Whack” and some good old Crescent City boogie takes place on “Kokomo” while the raucous guitar takes you to Chicago on ”Slow Burn”. The band can boogie as well, shuffling on “Don’t Push Your Mess On Me” and “Any Way You Want” as Lerman picks and grins like a juke joint junkie. Lots of good smouldering sounds here.

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