Size: 100,7 MB
Time: 43:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues/Roots/Americana
Art: Front
1. One More River (3:31)
2. Work Song (4:01)
3. Area Grey (3:39)
4. Ghost Train (4:34)
5. Beatnik Jam (3:07)
6. Desert Song (3:49)
7. Unknown Country (3:32)
8. Tangled Up (2:39)
9. Pawnshop Kingdom (3:25)
10. Your Spell On Me (2:54)
11. Bean Soup (3:00)
12. Anywhere USA (3:06)
13. High Strangeness (1:59)
This album was recorded over a ten-year period at three different studios: Sacred Cat in Sacramento, Sun Studios in Memphis, and High Rye Studios in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania. Accordingly, there is a very long list of performers on the album related to that time span and the disparity of locations where the songs were recorded. In the liner notes, James established that all of the songs “have an occult connection, and the blues and roots genre is the perfect format to explore events beyond everyday physical life. In this life, you may see apparitions, spontaneous auras, experience missing time, or witness something strange in the sky. One thing is for sure, most folks are skeptics, and no one believes this mess until it happens to YOU.”
James plays acoustic guitar and harmonica, provides the vocals and produced the album. The album is his third release in the blues and roots genre. Firecracker was released in 2009, and Southland was released in 2013. James grew up in the coastal southern towns of Biloxi and New Orleans but presently calls Philadelphia home. Regular bandmate Ron Baldwin joins him on organ and electric and acoustic piano. Seventeen other musicians fill out the list of performers on the album.
In his album notes, James references the album as an “esoteric twist in modern blues…mixing traditional blues and different approaches”. Clearly “Beatnik Jam” and “High Strangeness” are well outside the realm of blues or roots music. Some of the other songs might pass through some gray areas of blues but do find a basis in a turn on the blues. “Your Spell on Me” on the surface with its voodoo spells does sound like it would be well outside the realm of blues, but in fact might be one of the album’s bluesiest, easy-going songs with its love spell. Traditional blues themes do transform in James’ hands and the talents of his many supporting musicians. /John Sacksteder, Blues Blast Magazine
James plays acoustic guitar and harmonica, provides the vocals and produced the album. The album is his third release in the blues and roots genre. Firecracker was released in 2009, and Southland was released in 2013. James grew up in the coastal southern towns of Biloxi and New Orleans but presently calls Philadelphia home. Regular bandmate Ron Baldwin joins him on organ and electric and acoustic piano. Seventeen other musicians fill out the list of performers on the album.
In his album notes, James references the album as an “esoteric twist in modern blues…mixing traditional blues and different approaches”. Clearly “Beatnik Jam” and “High Strangeness” are well outside the realm of blues or roots music. Some of the other songs might pass through some gray areas of blues but do find a basis in a turn on the blues. “Your Spell on Me” on the surface with its voodoo spells does sound like it would be well outside the realm of blues, but in fact might be one of the album’s bluesiest, easy-going songs with its love spell. Traditional blues themes do transform in James’ hands and the talents of his many supporting musicians. /John Sacksteder, Blues Blast Magazine
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