Time: 44:33
Size: 102.0 MB
Styles: New Orleans blues
Year: 2009
Art: Front
[2:54] 1. Sweet Home New Orleans
[5:17] 2. Everyday I Have The Blues
[3:05] 3. New Love
[3:46] 4. What A Difference A Day Makes
[3:52] 5. Valentine
[2:55] 6. Your Mama Don't Dance
[4:01] 7. Maestro
[4:06] 8. Good Times Is Alright
[3:52] 9. Life Goes On
[3:11] 10. Wardell
[3:42] 11. It Takes Two
[3:46] 12. Shotgun Sally
Cluster Lee – Guitar and Vocals; Randolph ‘Bambie’ Linzey – Bass; Tommy ‘Tom’ Williams – Drums; Kurt Brunius – Keyboard and Horn; Merlyn ‘Merl’ Dempsey and Terry ‘T’ Lee – Background Vocals.
In New Orleans, they don’t just play the blues, they marinate them -- soak them in years of inherited tradition; spice them up with seasonings from various musical genres; heat them slowly in performances for appreciative audiences. The result is tunes that borrow from all kinds of influences. Rooted in the blues, you could just as easily call the sound that results soul, R&B, jazz, or gospel. But what it is most of all is New Orleans music -- made for pleasure and played for the people. A case in point: The Cluster Lee Powerhouse, is a regional favorite, playing music festivals from Florida to Texas and regularly entertaining audiences throughout the Gulf Coast.
This CD was recorded and mastered in the summer of 2005, right before Hurricane Katrina. “My whole studio and most of my masters got wiped out,” says Gary Edwards, owner of the Sound of New Orleans label. “But I happened to have Cluster’s master CD in my briefcase, which I threw in my van when we evacuated.” After Edwards eventually re-established the label in New Orleans, he “woke up one morning with the idea that I wanted to put out this CD as the first one after the flood.”
This CD is a classic example of New Orleans soul/R&B/jazz/gospel blues, otherwise known simply as classic New Orleans music.
In New Orleans, they don’t just play the blues, they marinate them -- soak them in years of inherited tradition; spice them up with seasonings from various musical genres; heat them slowly in performances for appreciative audiences. The result is tunes that borrow from all kinds of influences. Rooted in the blues, you could just as easily call the sound that results soul, R&B, jazz, or gospel. But what it is most of all is New Orleans music -- made for pleasure and played for the people. A case in point: The Cluster Lee Powerhouse, is a regional favorite, playing music festivals from Florida to Texas and regularly entertaining audiences throughout the Gulf Coast.
This CD was recorded and mastered in the summer of 2005, right before Hurricane Katrina. “My whole studio and most of my masters got wiped out,” says Gary Edwards, owner of the Sound of New Orleans label. “But I happened to have Cluster’s master CD in my briefcase, which I threw in my van when we evacuated.” After Edwards eventually re-established the label in New Orleans, he “woke up one morning with the idea that I wanted to put out this CD as the first one after the flood.”
This CD is a classic example of New Orleans soul/R&B/jazz/gospel blues, otherwise known simply as classic New Orleans music.
Sweet Home New Orleans