Size: 101,9 MB
Time: 44:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Blues
Art: Full
1. Train (2:34)
2. Midnight Rambler (4:35)
3. Shake Your Sugar Tree (2:12)
4. If I Ain't Got (3:31)
5. The Moose Is Loose (2:37)
6. Eyesight To The Blind (2:18)
7. That's All Right (5:10)
8. Rock This Morning (3:32)
9. Guilty (3:48)
10. That Would Be Fine (3:42)
11. Outta Love (4:03)
12. We Get By (3:30)
13. Untitled (2:28)
Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Kristi Johnson is a capable blues guitarist and a startlingly fine singer and songwriter. On her debut album she leads a bare-bones trio (augmented by the occasional guest musician) through a program of hardheaded blues and R&B, most of it original. "Train" starts things off with a bang: after a slow-strutting intro, the song transitions without warning into a quick blues shuffle, then breaks down as Johnson takes her first solo, which alternates masterful understatement with fleet-fingered heat. "Shake Your Sugar Tree," another Johnson original, sounds like a cross between Tin Pan Alley and early jump blues with a slightly nastier edge.
And speaking of a nasty edge, "If I Ain't Got" is a slow, snarling scorcher; a brazen challenge to her lover punctuated by filthy guitar fills. Best of all is the soulful kiss-off "Outta Love." Johnson doesn't maintain this level of quality perfectly - her solo on "That Would Be Fine" is ponderous and sloppy - but for a debut album, the level of musicianship here is very impressive. She'll probably only get better. /Rick Anderson, AllMusic
(For personnel details, see artwork included.)
And speaking of a nasty edge, "If I Ain't Got" is a slow, snarling scorcher; a brazen challenge to her lover punctuated by filthy guitar fills. Best of all is the soulful kiss-off "Outta Love." Johnson doesn't maintain this level of quality perfectly - her solo on "That Would Be Fine" is ponderous and sloppy - but for a debut album, the level of musicianship here is very impressive. She'll probably only get better. /Rick Anderson, AllMusic
(For personnel details, see artwork included.)
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