Time: 66:51
Size: 153.0 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front
[6:59] 1. Baby Hates To Love Me
[4:53] 2. When You Love Somebody
[2:56] 3. One More Time
[3:56] 4. Go With The Flow
[4:52] 5. Heros In Heaven
[3:05] 6. One Fine Day
[6:57] 7. Don't Get Me Started
[5:06] 8. Feelin' Low
[5:29] 9. Killin' Me
[5:41] 10. Lesson Learned
[5:24] 11. Dismal Creek
[8:46] 12. Reign Of Blues
[2:41] 13. One Fine Day (Live) [hidden Track]
Reign of Blues is a powerful blues album. “Percy Fairweather” is the name used by the great Dennis Winters of The Winters Brothers Band and “The Storm” is the name taken on by Jamie LaRitz. Dennis handles the bulk of the vocals and plays guitar. Jaimie contributes vocals and plays lead and slide guitar, bass, keyboards, and drums. There are many musicians contributing to this superb production that include Chad Booher, Rick Brothers, and TJ Wilder on drums, and Joel “Taz” DiGregorio and Phil Wolfe on B3 organ. Dave Murphy also handles keyboard and there is some nice horn work with Matthew Randall on the sax and Charles J Reagan on the trumpet. There are many that lend their talents to the background vocals including Dennis’s daughters and grandchildren.
When I listen to this album, one of the many things that stand out is the unmistakable voice of Dennis Winters. The man’s got soul. Make no mistake, this is a blues album, but when I hear Dennis’s voice I can’t help but think of all the great Winters Brothers Band songs. Then there’s Jamie LaRitz absolutely ripping on lead and slide guitar. The guitar work on all songs between Jaimie and Dennis is excellent, and one of them that really astounds me is on “Don’t Get Me Started” at around 4:32 in the song where they roll into this unreal guitar solo. Just the way it transitions into it is really cool. And the interplay between keyboards and guitar reminds me of Billy Powell and Allen Collins or Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the good old days. Or maybe even Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain and “Taz” DiGregorio of the Charlie Daniels Band. This possibly was influenced by the late great Joel “Taz” DiGregorio who plays the B3 organ on this album. ~rlock
When I listen to this album, one of the many things that stand out is the unmistakable voice of Dennis Winters. The man’s got soul. Make no mistake, this is a blues album, but when I hear Dennis’s voice I can’t help but think of all the great Winters Brothers Band songs. Then there’s Jamie LaRitz absolutely ripping on lead and slide guitar. The guitar work on all songs between Jaimie and Dennis is excellent, and one of them that really astounds me is on “Don’t Get Me Started” at around 4:32 in the song where they roll into this unreal guitar solo. Just the way it transitions into it is really cool. And the interplay between keyboards and guitar reminds me of Billy Powell and Allen Collins or Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd in the good old days. Or maybe even Charlie Daniels, Tom Crain and “Taz” DiGregorio of the Charlie Daniels Band. This possibly was influenced by the late great Joel “Taz” DiGregorio who plays the B3 organ on this album. ~rlock
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