Time: 33:18
Size: 76.2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front
[4:29] 1. Wood And Wire
[4:59] 2. Natural Thing
[4:15] 3. I Miss The Road
[3:53] 4. Steal My Heart Away
[4:11] 5. One More Chance
[4:59] 6. Just Let Go
[6:30] 7. Hearts Desire
Just days after the release of a long-unfinished album, a group effort meant to help ease his struggles from Parkinson’s Disease, the widely admired rock and blues guitarist Jimmy Nalls died Thursday after a fall at his home. He was 66. Nalls, who had lived in Nashville since the mid 1980s, was famous for his role in 1970s southern rock and fusion group Sea Level. He was also a valued sideman who worked with a wide variety of major American artists, including Dr. John, Gregg Allman, T. Graham Brown and Lee Roy Parnell.
Gabriel Hernandez, owner of Blues Vintage Guitars, Inc. in Nashville and one of the producers of the new album, says Nalls was an underrated but influential guitar player. “He was at such a burgeoning scene and time in Macon, GA, when Capricorn Records was just exploding. He was doing session stuff for all kinds of people and hanging out with the Allman Brothers.”
The Jimmy Nalls Project, released June 19, is a collaboration by more than a dozen prominent guitarists and numerous other musicians and producers that completes a solo album Nalls had to abandon more than a decade ago after his Parkinson’s symptoms left him unable to play. In 2015, friends and colleagues rallied to complete tracks that were in various states, playing largely in Nashville’s House of Blues studio, often with Nalls on hand to enjoy it. The project was intended to raise funds to defray the substantial costs of Nalls’s care and to improve the disability accommodations in his home. Proceeds now will go to Nalls’s family.
Among the contributors to the album are international blues rocker Joe Bonamassa, Tennessee-based jazz icon Larry Carlton, rockers Robben Ford and Warren Haynes and standout Nashville six-stringers Jack Pearson, Johnny Hiland, J.D. Simo and Kenny Greenberg. Chuck Leavell, longtime keyboard player with the Rolling Stones and leader of Sea Level between 1976 and 1980, played on the album as well.
Gabriel Hernandez, owner of Blues Vintage Guitars, Inc. in Nashville and one of the producers of the new album, says Nalls was an underrated but influential guitar player. “He was at such a burgeoning scene and time in Macon, GA, when Capricorn Records was just exploding. He was doing session stuff for all kinds of people and hanging out with the Allman Brothers.”
The Jimmy Nalls Project, released June 19, is a collaboration by more than a dozen prominent guitarists and numerous other musicians and producers that completes a solo album Nalls had to abandon more than a decade ago after his Parkinson’s symptoms left him unable to play. In 2015, friends and colleagues rallied to complete tracks that were in various states, playing largely in Nashville’s House of Blues studio, often with Nalls on hand to enjoy it. The project was intended to raise funds to defray the substantial costs of Nalls’s care and to improve the disability accommodations in his home. Proceeds now will go to Nalls’s family.
Among the contributors to the album are international blues rocker Joe Bonamassa, Tennessee-based jazz icon Larry Carlton, rockers Robben Ford and Warren Haynes and standout Nashville six-stringers Jack Pearson, Johnny Hiland, J.D. Simo and Kenny Greenberg. Chuck Leavell, longtime keyboard player with the Rolling Stones and leader of Sea Level between 1976 and 1980, played on the album as well.
The link is no longer available. You are encouraged to buy this CD. Proceeds will go to Nalls’s family.