Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:07
Size: 98.7 MB
Styles: Roots, Contemporary blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front
[2:56] 1. You Made Me Feel For You
[3:32] 2. I Ain't Gonna Stand For It
[3:59] 3. Banshee Moan
[4:09] 4. I Went To The Well
[3:26] 5. Roll Away The Stone
[3:13] 6. Black Haired Boy
[2:53] 7. Low Rider
[4:30] 8. Isn't That Love
[2:40] 9. The Stuff You Gotta Watch
[3:54] 10. Prayer In Open D
[5:26] 11. It Makes No Difference
[2:22] 12. Let's Go Home
The concept for Black Irish began in 2013, as Shannon was going through what she calls “a miserable divorce,” raising her daughter Maeve, and nursing her terminally ill mother Maureen. Her parents had relocated to Holly Springs, Mississippi, and McNally moved in, caring for her mom until her death in 2015.“I had no vim or vigor in me for a couple of years,” she admits. What saved her was her email relationship with Crowell, who’d been talking about producing her since 2012. “We started this really wonderful thing of just lobbing song titles back and forth. And I just sat at a table and learned about a dozen tunes, my favorite covers, anything to spark a fire in this really dark turn.”She co-wrote three of the album’s 12 songs – one with producer Crowell, who also penned two more for her; the rest include personal favorites by Stevie Wonder (“I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It”), Robbie Robertson (“It Makes No Difference”), and J.J. Cale (“Low Rider”). The result is an album that stands with the best of classic vocal interpreters like Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris and Maria Muldaur.When it came time to record, McNally enlisted her friend, Memphis soul-gospel powerhouse Wendy Moten on background vocals, while Crowell called in some of Music City’s finest, including guitarists Colin Linden and Audley Freed, bassists Michael Rhodes and David Santos, and drummer Jerry Roe.For those familiar with Levon Helm’s ramshackle take on Muddy Waters’ “The Stuff You Got to Watch”, McNally’s smoothly swinging rockabilly/ jump blues will be a revelation. It’s her tribute to Muddy. “I love how classy he was, how sharp-dressed and handsome, with his pompadour and his gold and his perfect suit.”To McNally, the late Susanna Clark’s song about Townes Van Zandt, “Black Haired Boy” (with Emmylou and Elizabeth Cook singing harmony) is a bookend to “Prayer in Open D”, the two most “singer-songwriter” tracks, both featuring Crowell’s fingerpicking.McNally and company close Black Irish with the joyous, roof-raising Delta gospel of The Staple Singers’ “Let’s Go Home”.
She won’t be staying long. With Black Irish, Shannon McNally moves into the next part of her journey.
She won’t be staying long. With Black Irish, Shannon McNally moves into the next part of her journey.
Black Irish
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:35
Size: 115.8 MB
Styles: R&B, Contemporary blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front
[3:13] 1. Street People
[3:14] 2. Can't Pin A Color
[3:51] 3. String Of Hearts
[2:51] 4. I Spent All My Money
[4:05] 5. Cowboys And Indians
[4:08] 6. Homemade Songs
[3:22] 7. Long Face
[4:05] 8. Small Town Talk
[4:01] 9. I Don't Want To Know
[4:06] 10. But I Do
[3:04] 11. Love In The Worst Degree
[3:35] 12. Save Me Jesus
[3:16] 13. Smile (So Glad)
[3:36] 14. I Must Be In A Good Place Now
2013 album from the American singer/songwriter. The album, which is a collection of Bobby Charles songs, is a musical collaboration with the legendary Dr. John. Everybody knows Bobby Charles through his songs. Charles wrote such instantly recognizable hits as 'See You Later Alligator,' 'Walking to New Orleans' and 'But I Do,' but the reclusive singer/songwriter, who passed away in 2010, is relatively unknown for his own recordings. This album puts the spotlight back on the songs and the man who wrote them.
Small Town Talk