Year: 2006
Time: 78:01
Size: 180,8 MB
Label: Note music (NCD 1013)
Styles: Blues
Art: Front
Tracks Listing:
1. Statesboro' Blues - 4:33
2. Parchman Farm - 4:41
3. Sweet Lovin' Mama - 7:38
4. Crazy Life - 5:39
5. Halfway To Nowhere - 4:25
6. That's Alright - 6:42
7. Comin' Home Baby - 4:58
8. 7th Son - 4:43
9. Outskirts Of Town - 7:01
10. Back At The Chicken Shack / T-Bone Suffle - 5:46
11. Checkin' On My Baby - 6:10
12. Be Cool - 3:29
13. Undercover Lover - 4:42
14. The Snitch - 5:12
15. I Don't Worry About A Thing - 2:16
A safe start to the album with a title borrowed from Blind Willie Mc Tell, ‘Statesboro’ Blues’, on which Bob Haddrell on keyboard and Nick Newall, a special guest for that evening, on the sax alternate solos, which foretells that this quartet is on fine form this fated 17th of September 2006.
This great evening of blues was brought to life by BBC recording. For ‘Parchaman Farm’, the brilliant Bob gives another flavour demonstrating his talents, a true magician of the black and white keys, fabulously seconded by Alan Glen and his six-strings and Dino Coccia on drums. A few gems from the harmonica are slipped in here and there, just in time to continue with a great version of‘Sweet Lovin’ Mama’ from the illustrious Johnny Guitar Watson, who would have undoubtedly appreciated Dino Coccia on drums whilst Alan Glen was throwing himself on the harmonica. It’s spicy, it’s furious, it’s dynamite bursting your eardrums with countless colours, it’s like a beautiful fireworks display.
But the Barcodes’ talent is also knowing when to switch tempos and dive in a raging blues and going seamlessly into a slow track, perfect for those special evenings with the love of your life: ‘Crazy Life’ and its saxophone solo makes you believe you’re in the deepest of cellars listening to the best sound in slow blues around. Another track, co-written by Alan Glen, ‘Halfway To Nowhere’ and a faster pace which increases the temperature before the quartet follows up with another two beautiful pieces, ‘That’s Alright’ then ‘Comin’ Home Baby’ in which Nick Newall does marvels with the flute to then make space for the excellent Alan Glen, playing a brilliant solo with his six-string on one of the best cover version of ‘7th son’ I have ever heard. It is then followed by a more mellow, more ‘London Club’ atmosphere with ‘Outskirts of Town’ when Alan Glen shows us how he can make his six-string shiver before rushing off again to treat us to a medley by Jimmy Smith and T Bone Walker and a superb combination: ‘Back at the Chicken Shack + T Bone Shuffle’.
You think you’ve heard the best of what this trio and their ‘special guest’ can offer? How wrong you are, check out this unbelievable version of ‘Checkin’ On My Baby’ during which Bob Haddrell on keyboard and Nick Newall playing the flute make you shiver with pleasure and then, wait for it, it’s Alan Glen’s turn to get you to going with ‘Be Cool’, one of his compositions and its terribly choppy and swinging rhythms. The following two tracks, written by Dino Coccia, are superb and prove you can be an (excellent) drummer and have the gift of writing.
The evening of the 17th of September ends the same way it started on a fast pace, just so you know you should have been there and that not only you shouldn’t miss their CD but especially you have to go to their next concerts.
This CD is the consecration of a group you can’t afford to ignore! An absolute must!
Live! In Session For The BBC
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