Time: 34:58
Size: 80.1 MB
Styles: New Orleans blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front
[4:05] 1. What I'm Talkin' About
[5:03] 2. Go On Fool
[3:14] 3. As The World Turns
[2:40] 4. Beating Like A Tom Tom
[4:01] 5. Pretty Acres
[3:59] 6. Tell It Like It Is
[3:31] 7. Try A Little Love
[2:22] 8. I'm Leaving You
[3:36] 9. Walk That Walk
[2:21] 10. Many Rivers To Cross
Carlo Ditta – Vocals, Guitar; Chris Lacinak – Drums; Chewy Black – Drums; Anthony Donado – Drums; Vernon Rome – Bass; David Hype – Bass; Earl Stanley – Bass; Robert Snow – Bass; Steve Allen – Saxophone; Charlie Miller – Trumpet, Piano; Ruby Moon – Background Vocals; David Rebeck – Accordion.
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of Carlo Ditta in keeping the best of the New Orleans music scene alive the last 30 years, both as producer, songwriter, and guitarist and also as founder and head of Orleans Records. Coco Robichaux, Mighty Sam McClain, Marva Wright, Ironing Board Sam, Little Freddie King—they all owe him something. Now here’s Carlo’s own, teased out over the past few years with a single here and there, and it’s a revelation, a strangely wonderful set that, at its best, melds John Prine’s wit to Tom Waits’ mouth and rocks the swamp while doing so. It’s so offhand listeners might miss the brilliance at first, since he’s grumbling more often than singing, but thanks to both its groove and Ditta’s offhand observation, the opening title track approaches some sort of Randy Newman level of sleaze-as-art. The rest of the album, with a track list that consistently pits originals against covers in an iron cage death match, follows suit—Carlo might as well be making it up as he goes along on his excellent and unjustly ignored 2011 single “As the World Turns,” but he’s not. ~Robert Fontenot
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of Carlo Ditta in keeping the best of the New Orleans music scene alive the last 30 years, both as producer, songwriter, and guitarist and also as founder and head of Orleans Records. Coco Robichaux, Mighty Sam McClain, Marva Wright, Ironing Board Sam, Little Freddie King—they all owe him something. Now here’s Carlo’s own, teased out over the past few years with a single here and there, and it’s a revelation, a strangely wonderful set that, at its best, melds John Prine’s wit to Tom Waits’ mouth and rocks the swamp while doing so. It’s so offhand listeners might miss the brilliance at first, since he’s grumbling more often than singing, but thanks to both its groove and Ditta’s offhand observation, the opening title track approaches some sort of Randy Newman level of sleaze-as-art. The rest of the album, with a track list that consistently pits originals against covers in an iron cage death match, follows suit—Carlo might as well be making it up as he goes along on his excellent and unjustly ignored 2011 single “As the World Turns,” but he’s not. ~Robert Fontenot
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