Time: 62:23
Size: 142.8 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Surf
Year: 1997
Art: Front
[2:34] 1. Beat Cop
[4:48] 2. Swing With You Baby
[2:39] 3. Storm Surge
[2:28] 4. Moon Relay
[2:43] 5. Sweet Honeysuckle
[3:13] 6. Violated
[2:28] 7. Mowgli's Bounce
[7:37] 8. Come On
[3:39] 9. Renee's Cha Cha
[5:32] 10. That's Alright
[3:11] 11. Run Chicken Run
[3:49] 12. Sad & Blue
[4:05] 13. Women From Pluto
[3:00] 14. Need You So Bad
[3:07] 15. She's A Liar
[5:29] 16. Garbage Man
[1:53] 17. Hurry Up, Slow Down
In his search for voice, Morris fuses two seemingly opposite styles into a vision that works; older, African-American inner city blues with young, blonde white teens at the beach. Call it Otis Rush meets the Ventures or the Iceman Albert Collins melts strings with a surfin' Dick Dale. Whatever you label it; Danny Morris plays from a blues based style that incorporates roots and surf, and a bluesy, California beach roots rock. And it works. There are a lot of people saying I'm not playing blues anymore, but to me it's all the same. When I hear Albert Collins' Truckin' CD, I hear a surf record. Most of the songs have that 60 go-go surf beat. The Otis Rush records I like have tons of reverb echoplex sound. I've always liked that Collins and Rush reverb drenched sound. To me, what I do takes the blues outta the barroom and puts it outside. I don't play the Beach Boys stuff; my surf style has the edgy, meanness of the blues sound. I also listen to a lot of the Cuban music from the 5O's, so you'll hear Spanish stuff," said Morris. How do blues rooms react to this mixture? "When I start playing the Ventures, they look at me like. This isn't what we expected, but don't change it, we love it!" So put on your 5O's beach garb, wax the boards, pile in the woody, and oil up the air whammy bar because Danny's takin' us on a surfin' guitar safari. ~Art Tipaldi
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