James Blood Ulmer
"Birthright"
Hyena Records-
TMF9335(
2005)
file under: Jamband/Electronica
James Blood Ulmer - guitars, vocals, flutes
Winner of Downbeat Magazine's "Blues Album of the Year" Award!
James Blood Ulmer is in the midst of a career revival—an artistic renaissance if you will. A new generation of music fans have discovered his music, while simultaneously longtime fans from throughout his 40-year career have shown a renewed fascination with the iconoclastic genius. His previous two recordings, Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions and No Escape From The Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions led to much recognition, including a Grammy Award nomination, Rolling Stone Magazine “Best Album” honors, a performance at Martin Scorsese blues celebration concert at Radio City Music Hall and high profile appearances with the likes of Government Mule, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. On Birthright, his latest studio album, Ulmer goes it alone. It’s just he and his guitar singing and playing 12 of the most stark, personal and spellbinding songs he’s ever recorded. The blues hasn’t sounded this fresh in a long, long time. It’s clearly the work of an American music legend continuing to reinvent himself, while remaining as relevant today as at any point in his long and distinguished career.
"James Blood Ulmer returns to the music of his forebears with a stunning testimonial to the spiritual, psychic, social and existential intensity that's been at the heart of the blues _expression since the beginning and continues to inform the true living blues tradition. - Living Blues: "With his weather-beaten voice and hard-strummed guitar scratchings, James Blood Ulmer could clear a room of blues dilettantes with a single album cut. Those who stick around are rewarded with some of the deepest blues this side of Son House."
- Chicago Sun Times
"The blues - ancient and modern, from Blind Willie McTell to Ornette
Coleman - have always run deep in this South Carolinian's black rock and
future jazz. But on Birthright, there is nothing but blues: just Ulmer's subterranean rock-slide moan and spider dance guitar improvisations, in stark, original memoirs...Ulmer has taken the long road home...But he sounds like he never left."
- David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"The number of bonafide original contributions to the musical language
of the blues in the last 30 years are as scarce as hair on a Mississippi bullfrog. Junior Kimbrough's All Night Long and Otis Taylor's Respect the Dead come immediately to mind. One must now add James Blood Ulmer's Birthright to this short list and it may be the most groundbreaking of
all."
-Dave Rubin, Guitar Player Magazine
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1CD-
$12.00
Track
Listing
(click linked titles for mp3)
1.
Take My Music Back to Church
[4:42]
2.
I Can't Take it Anymore
[2:38]
3.
Where Did All The Girls Come From
[5:05]
4.
I Ain't Superstitious
[3:46]
5.
White Man's Jail
[3:58]
6.
High Yellow
7.
The Evil One
8.
Geechee Joe
9.
Love Dance Rag
10.
Sittin' on Top of the World
11.
My Most Favorite Thing
12.
Devil's Got to Burn
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