Clean Getaway

Clean Getaway

by Curtis Salgado
Clean Getaway

Clean Getaway

by Curtis Salgado

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Overview

Call this the album that almost never was. In 2006 Curtis Salgado was diagnosed with liver cancer and given eight months to live unless he underwent a half-million-dollar operation. The money was raised from benefits by friends of Salgado such as Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Steve Miller, and Taj Mahal, and donations from fans. After the successful transplant, the cancer spread to his lungs, requiring yet another operation. On his first post-cancer release, anyone not knowing what he went through would be astonished that he could come out of the ordeal sounding this healthy. Salgado enlisted members of the Phantom Blues Band and drummer/producer Tony Braunagel to handle the backing, and the combination is a natural extension of the soul-blues stew the singer/harpist has been cooking up since his first solo album in 1991. It takes confidence in your vocal abilities to cover tunes sung by Smokey Robinson ("Who's Lovin' You"), Al Green ("Let's Get Married"), and Little Richard ("I Don't Want to Discuss It"), but Salgado is up to the challenge and turns in striking performances that do justice to -- or, in the case of the Robinson tune, improve on -- the originals. Elsewhere, Salgado wades in the rocking swamp blues of "Heartache," shifts into Johnny "Guitar" Watson funk-soul mode for the title track, and heads to Memphis for the Hi-styled "Drivin' in the Drivin' Rain," the latter one of four originals co-written by Salgado. There's more than a little Delbert McClinton to his raspy voice, which he uses to terrific effect on the moody, obsessive "My Confessions." The rollicking Clapton tune "Bottle of Red Wine" is a perfect vehicle for Salgado's soul shake, and gives him a chance to blow some tough harp. Blues looms large in his catalog of influences, and Salgado pays tribute to one of the genre's icons in "20 Years of B.B. King" with lyrics comprised predominantly of King song titles. It sounds corny, but he pulls it off due to his obvious sincerity and by playing it straight. The connection with the Phantom Blues Band is both natural and inspired as they lay into this material but never steal the spotlight from Salgado, who sounds enthused and, well, glad to be alive. Comebacks don't get much sweeter. ~ Hal Horowitz

Product Details

Release Date: 07/08/2008
Label: Shanachie
UPC: 0016351903822
Rank: 86170

Tracks

  1. Clean Getaway
  2. Both Sorry Over Nothin'
  3. Who's Lovin' You
  4. My Confessions
  5. What's Up with That
  6. Alone
  7. I Don't Want to Discuss It
  8. 20 Years of B.B. King
  9. Heartache
  10. Let's Get Married
  11. Drivin' in the Drivin' Rain
  12. Bottle of Red Wine

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Curtis Salgado   Primary Artist,Vocals,Harmonica,Vocals (Background)
Johnny Lee Schell   Vocals (Background),Guitar
Jon Cleary   Piano
Marlon McClain   Guitar
Melodye Perry   Vocals (Background)
Michito Sanchez   Percussion
Mike Finnigan   Keyboards
Tim Scott   Vocals (Background)
Tony Braunagel   Drums
Larry Fulcher   Bass
Julie Delgado   Vocals (Background)
Jacob Wolf   Guitar
Les Lovitt   Trumpet
Joe Sublett   Saxophone
Jeff Golub   Guitar

Technical Credits

John Porter   Mixing
Johnny Lee Schell   Engineer
Robert Vosgien   Mastering
Marlon McClain   Producer,Audio Production
Ross Hamilton   Photography
Al Green   Composer
Tony Braunagel   Producer
Sandy Solomon   Assistant Engineer
Dave Mills   Horn Arrangements
Bonnie Bramlett   Composer
Curtis Salgado   Composer,Producer,Horn Arrangements
Joe Sublett   Horn Arrangements
Eric Clapton   Composer
Delaney Bramlett   Composer
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