Time: 50:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full
01. I Was Born To Wail (4:46)
02. Feeling Her Gone (3:26)
03. Baby's Got The Blues (3:31)
04. The All Night Cafe (4:54)
05. Load Me Up Baby (4:31)
06. Mississippi Moods (4:35)
07. Happy Wife, Happy Life, Happy Home (3:09)
08. The Song I Couldn't Write (4:54)
09. I Love The Feminine Girl (5:07)
10. Hand Holding Man (4:01)
11. Can't Get That Girl Off My Mind (3:33)
12. In The Land Of You (3:52)
At the heart of great songwriting is great storytelling and a keen eye for wordsmithing and phraseology. Jon Gindick has graced the world with another collection of great stories full of fresh phrases and joyful tales of life, love and the blues on his second album “Love At The All Night Cafe.” It’s also no coincidence that Gindick is also a master harmonica player, for his leads and solos are as fluid and lyrical as his vocal lines, as if he is singing through the blues harp. Gindick is backed by his trio of Ralph Carter on bass, guitarist Franck Goldwasser and Pete Gallagher on drums for a twelve-song set of foot stompin’ blues, swingin’ R&B, Calypso and soul.
The opening number, ‘I Was Born To Wail,’ is a lesson on the history of the blues harp with Gindick playing out his dream of joining the masters of the art and paying tribute to all who inspired him, and calling them out by name “Sonny Boy, Sonny Terry, Big Walter, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed and Howlin’ Wolf. These are the giants who created my music and to them I take my hat off.” The easy groove of the tale of heartache in ‘Feeling Her Gone’ has a classic Memphis Soul sound. The vibe gets edgy for ‘Baby’s Got The Blues,’ then deftly switches gears into a Latin groove for the satirical title track ‘The All Night Cafe.’ Some fine piano work from Carter frames Gindick’s colorful description of the scene portrayed in the painting “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper that graces the album cover. He then spars with Goldwasser on the slinky shifting blues ‘Load Me Up Baby’ and spells out the virtues of his muse on the sweetly swinging ‘Mississippi Moods.’
Gindick takes liberty with the old advice to husbands on ‘Happy Wife, Happy Life, Happy Home,’ while the band dishes out some breezy western swing. He gets to finally put into words the depth of his love on the piano driven ballad ‘The Song I Couldn’t Write,’ then challenges the #metoo movement with an old-fashioned boogaloo about his baby ‘I Love The Feminine Girl,’ and then defends his machismo by declaring his sensitivity on the loping blues ‘Hand Holding Man.’ The tasty bossa nova ‘Can’t Get That Girl Off My Mind’ plays out the romantic tale. For the album closer Gindick speaks of his music and the profound love and redemption he has found in its creation on the soaring ‘In The Land Of You’ (a man giving up everything for a woman he has seen only once.)
Another great songwriter and his wife once penned the line “Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs, And what’s wrong with that?” Jon Gindick has taken this notion to heart and with “Love At The All Night Cafe” gives it an edge of bluesy reality ~Rick J. Bowen
The opening number, ‘I Was Born To Wail,’ is a lesson on the history of the blues harp with Gindick playing out his dream of joining the masters of the art and paying tribute to all who inspired him, and calling them out by name “Sonny Boy, Sonny Terry, Big Walter, Little Walter, Jimmy Reed and Howlin’ Wolf. These are the giants who created my music and to them I take my hat off.” The easy groove of the tale of heartache in ‘Feeling Her Gone’ has a classic Memphis Soul sound. The vibe gets edgy for ‘Baby’s Got The Blues,’ then deftly switches gears into a Latin groove for the satirical title track ‘The All Night Cafe.’ Some fine piano work from Carter frames Gindick’s colorful description of the scene portrayed in the painting “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper that graces the album cover. He then spars with Goldwasser on the slinky shifting blues ‘Load Me Up Baby’ and spells out the virtues of his muse on the sweetly swinging ‘Mississippi Moods.’
Gindick takes liberty with the old advice to husbands on ‘Happy Wife, Happy Life, Happy Home,’ while the band dishes out some breezy western swing. He gets to finally put into words the depth of his love on the piano driven ballad ‘The Song I Couldn’t Write,’ then challenges the #metoo movement with an old-fashioned boogaloo about his baby ‘I Love The Feminine Girl,’ and then defends his machismo by declaring his sensitivity on the loping blues ‘Hand Holding Man.’ The tasty bossa nova ‘Can’t Get That Girl Off My Mind’ plays out the romantic tale. For the album closer Gindick speaks of his music and the profound love and redemption he has found in its creation on the soaring ‘In The Land Of You’ (a man giving up everything for a woman he has seen only once.)
Another great songwriter and his wife once penned the line “Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs, And what’s wrong with that?” Jon Gindick has taken this notion to heart and with “Love At The All Night Cafe” gives it an edge of bluesy reality ~Rick J. Bowen
Love At The All Night Cafe