Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:36
Size: 147.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front
[4:15] 1. I Miss Your Kissin'
[5:08] 2. Bleeker Street Strut
[4:33] 3. Power Of Midnight Lightnin'
[4:42] 4. Got's To Go
[5:02] 5. Spanish Castle Magic
[5:06] 6. Shake Your Moneymaker
[3:46] 7. It's About That Time
[4:57] 8. I Ain't Superstitious
[4:19] 9. Lookin' For The Truth
[6:00] 10. Uprising
[5:39] 11. Honeybee
[6:23] 12. Revolutionary Boogie
[4:41] 13. Gotta Go Right Now
Michael’s originals Bleecker Street Strut, Uprising, and the title track Revolutionary Boogie let loose his take-no-prisoners rock‘n roll, featuring who’s-who guests Charlie Torres on bass and Neil Burton on drums. Danny “Doc” Lane is featured on slide guitar. The originals Got’s To Go, Power of Midnight Lightnin’ and Lookin’ for the Truth feature the powerhouse mainstays of the Michael Powers Frequency Band, consisting of the steady-force of Barry Harrison, drums and Billy Cristiani, bass. Power of Midnight Lightnin’ is a stormy love song which features guest pianist John Colianni, formerly with Lionel Hampton & Mel Torme and currently with the Les Paul Trio. Colianni’s style has been described as reminiscent of the great Art Tatum.
Playing rhythm, lead and bass simultaneously, sometimes using his rings, Michael’s live show spans from Muddy Waters to Jimi Hendrix, as he regularly plays tributes to both. He covers Hendrix’s Spanish Castle Magic this time, recorded at Brent & Gig Lizzy’s 30 Below Studio in New York, who also mixed this song.
Playing rhythm, lead and bass simultaneously, sometimes using his rings, Michael’s live show spans from Muddy Waters to Jimi Hendrix, as he regularly plays tributes to both. He covers Hendrix’s Spanish Castle Magic this time, recorded at Brent & Gig Lizzy’s 30 Below Studio in New York, who also mixed this song.
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:06
Size: 112.4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2004
Art: Front
[4:07] 1. Successful Son
[3:05] 2. Can't Quit You Baby
[4:08] 3. Baby's Got A Train
[3:33] 4. She's About A Mover
[3:18] 5. Shock
[4:21] 6. Country Boy
[3:34] 7. Bird On A Wire
[3:36] 8. Psychotic Reaction
[3:52] 9. Night In Madrid
[3:24] 10. Another Man Done
[4:44] 11. Graffiti
[4:15] 12. All Over Town
[3:02] 13. Shimmy Up
This is as close to the perfect blues album I’ve ever heard, and certainly a modern classic. This is Michael Power’s Hoodoo Man. Everything is just right. It would not be a stretch to say that on many levels, especially production, Onyx Root is up a notch from the highly touted debuts by Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughn and even Joe Lewis Walker. Kudos to producers Steve Rosenthal and Jimi Zhivago, who understood this artist and captured him flawlessly. Frank Garfi at Studio 900 beautifully engineered the CD.
Onyx Root covers the gamut. Virtually the entire spectrum of black music up to the late 70’s is spanned without any notable shift. You get powerful covers of classics by Muddy Waters, the Howling Wolf and Willie Dixon to unexpected treasures by Vera Hall, Leonard Cohen, and Count Five. Powers’ originals are equally exciting and showcase his true strength as a songwriter. By the time you get toward the end of the album you’ve integrated funk, rock, soul and R&B without ever really feeling a change. The slight genre bending is irrelevant because Powers understands that these musical forms are at their roots one and the same. He is unmistakably a bluesman and the blues is the basis of it all. ~Frank Matheis
Onyx Root covers the gamut. Virtually the entire spectrum of black music up to the late 70’s is spanned without any notable shift. You get powerful covers of classics by Muddy Waters, the Howling Wolf and Willie Dixon to unexpected treasures by Vera Hall, Leonard Cohen, and Count Five. Powers’ originals are equally exciting and showcase his true strength as a songwriter. By the time you get toward the end of the album you’ve integrated funk, rock, soul and R&B without ever really feeling a change. The slight genre bending is irrelevant because Powers understands that these musical forms are at their roots one and the same. He is unmistakably a bluesman and the blues is the basis of it all. ~Frank Matheis
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