The Coming Tide

by Luke Winslow-King

Overview

Singer and songwriter Luke Winslow-King isn't your garden variety blues convert. Born in Michigan, where he attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, specializing in jazz guitar, he then studied music theory and composition at the University of New Orleans, earning a scholarship to study Czech music at St. Charles University in Prague. He also worked as a music therapist for a time, taught music at the La Velle School for the Blind, wrote scores for theater and movie productions, and has done a couple of stints as a street musician in New Orleans, where he makes his home and co-founded a record label, Earthwork Music. He knows his way around the American roots music block, and all of the avenues he's taken inform The Coming Tide, which is an organic mesh of country blues, traditional jazz, gospel, ragtime, folk, and a dash of rock & roll, somehow emerging as both ragged and elegant all at once. A fine guitarist, Winslow-King doesn't have a great voice in the commercial sense, but he has the perfect smoky, wine-soaked voice for vernacular expression, and he also wisely (he produced the album) has bandmate Esther Rose buoy things with harmony vocals on most of the tracks here, which gives the vocals just the right balance. Among the highlights on this refreshingly varied but still connectedly coherent set are the folky title tune, "The Coming Tide," a trombone-led "Moving On," and the gospel and blues mesh of "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning," although again, everything here seems to fall together naturally, one of Winslow-King's greatest strengths as a performer and recording artist. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	04/23/2013
Label:	Bloodshot
UPC:	0744302020617
Rank:	136124

Tracks

1. The Coming Tide Tide
2. Moving On (Towards Better Days)
3. Let ¿¿¿em Talk
4. Staying in Town
5. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning
6. You Don¿¿¿t Know Better Than Me
7. I¿¿¿ve Got the Blues for Rampart Street
8. You & Me
9. I Know She¿¿¿ll Do Right by Me
10. Ella Speed
11. I¿¿¿ve Got My Mind Set on You

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Luke Winslow-King   Primary Artist,Organ,Guitar,Vocals
Luke Wislow-King   Primary Artist
Earl Scioneaux III   Organ
Tom Saunders   Sax (Bass)
Rich Levinson   Drums
Rick Trolsen   Trombone
Chris Johnson   Sax (Alto)
Bruce Brackman   Sax (Tenor)
Cassidy Holden   Bass
Ben Polcer   Piano,Trumpet
Esther Rose   Vocals,Washboard,Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Traditional   Composer
Blind Willie Johnson   Composer
John Fischbach   Mastering
Rudy Clark   Composer
Earl Scioneaux III   Engineer,Producer
Ida Cox   Composer
Huddie Leadbetter   Composer
Luke Winslow-King   Arranger,Composer,Producer
Zack Smith   Photography
Nick Fox   Liner Notes
Michael Erlewine   Cover Photo
Michael Dominici   Photography
Cosmo Segurson   Graphic Design