Professor John and His Band - Big Hands (2002)

Tracklist

01. Down On the Farm
02. So Hard to Be Me
03. I Ain't That Kinda Man
04. Big Big Man
05. Makin' a Woman Smile
06. Rosemary in July
07. Cry Cry Cry
08. Sweet Georgia Brown
09. I Wanna Go Home
10. Every Day and Every Night
11. I Like It Like That
12. Thinkin' of You
13. Not Enough Sin
14. Cabbage Greens



Melding Now Orleans Rhythm and Blues with contemporary yet original Blues/Rock feel. Think of Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino merging together to create a piano-pounding good time for all.

"Watching pianist Professor John lead his band, you get the sense that the larger-that-life ivory pounder could go over the edge at any moment. Filled with energy, he attacks the piano keys, pummeling single-note runs with the force of a linebacker and nailing note clusters with his elbow. Away from the piano, he stomps on the stage until you think he might break a boot through it, cajoles women to join him in near debauchery and dances joyously around waving a skull staff in an effort to stir the well-oiled crowd...." ~Dave Zaworski (Associate Editor, Down Beat Magazine)

"I've heard several fine blues piano discs in the past year or two but Professor John approaches the music not as an elegant jazz spin-off, more like a rowdy rock'n'roll precursor that most people have forgotten ever existed. There was a time when sax and piano (rather than guitar) were considered THE rock instruments, and Professor John recalls those days with fervor. He has an aggressiveness that no one else appears to possess."

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