Tell Everybody! 21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound

by Tell Everybody (21St Century Juke Joint) / Var

Overview

Since founding the Easy Eye Sound label and studio in 2017, Dan Auerbach has produced and issued dozens of recordings, from his own Black Keys to Robert Finley, Leo Bud Welch, and Marcus King, to name a few. Auerbach's label offers stripped-down garage rock, raw soul, and raucous blues. This 12-track set was recorded --albeit at different junctures -- at Easy Eye Sound studios and produced by Auerbach. Essentially a gritty, rootsy 40-minute mixtape, its curation and sequencing are seamless, and unassailable in offering timeless yet contemporary approaches to 21st century blues. Veteran R.L. Boyd (a core member of Otha Turner's Rising Star Fife and Drum Band) opens with "Coal Black Mattie," a swampy, electric slide and percussion blues worthy of a juke joint dancefloor on a hot Mississippi night. Finley's "Tell Everybody" follows suit. The guitar riff is snaky, slow, and hypnotic and recalls the one in Dr. John's "I Walk on Gilded Splinters"; at other points it recalls the Jelly Roll Kings "Look Over Yonder Wall." Finley's use of gospel singers as a chorus adds fire and brimstone, with a pre-WWII gospel flavor. Auerbach's droning psych blues "Every Chance I Get (I Want You in the Flesh)" contains a vamp that intersects Norman Greenbaum's 1969 hit "Spirit in the Sky" with vintage Canned Heat. Jimmy "Duck" Holmes is the owner/proprietor of the Blue Front Cafe in Mississippi, the oldest continuously running juke joint in the U.S. His "Catfish Blues" is minimal, primitive, haunted, and something you might hear in his club after midnight. Despite its subtle drone, it has an impact like a ton of bricks. Gabe Carter's country-blues "Anything You Need" and the more electrified "Buffalo Road" are filtered through the urban strain of his Chicago home; he never tried to separate traditions, he saw them as an evolutionary process. Nat Myers is a Korean-American blues poet who cut the album Yellow Peril with Auerbach producing. Myers, an acoustic artist whose aesthetic is rooted in the country-blues of the '30s, offers "Willow Witchin'," a sprightly track hovering between the styles of Blind Willie McTell and Taj Mahal. 91-year-old Leo Bud Welch is a 60-year veteran of the Delta's juke joint scene. He recorded a few acclaimed sides for Fat Possum in the '90s and early 21st century. His "Don't Let the Devil Ride" is trance-like, gritty, and in mono! The Black Keys add the unreleased "No Lovin'," a droning psychedelic blues. "Daughter of Zion" is one of two contributions from Glenn Schwartz. Though he passed in 2018, he was the original guitarist in the James Gang and Pacific Gas & Electric. He is joined on the track by guitarist -- and his James Gang replacement -- Joe Walsh in a winding back-and-forth six-string duel with a primal blues feel. There isn't a weak moment here, not even a middling one. Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound is forging a unique path into the future of blues, one artist and one impeccable track after another. ~ Thom Jurek

Product Details

Release Date:	08/11/2023
Label:	Easy Eye Sound
UPC:	0888072509962
Rank:	18590

Tracks

1. Coal Black Mattie  - Dan Auerbach  - Sam Bacco  - R.L. Boyce  - Kenny Brown  - Ranie Burnette  - Eric Deaton  - Adam Schreiber
2. Tell Everybody  - Dan Auerbach  - Sam Bacco  - Kenny Brown  - Eric Deaton  - Robert Finley  - Christy Johnson  - Kent Kimbrough  - Kinney Kimbrough
3. Tall Shadow  - Libby Decamp  -  Moonrisers  - Adam Schreiber
4. Every Chance I Get (I Want You in the Flesh)  - Dan Auerbach  - Sam Bacco  - L. Russell Brown  - Gene Chrisman  - Russ Pahl  - Dave Roe  - Billy Sanford
5. Catfish Blues [Mono]  - Dan Auerbach  - Sam Bacco  - Eric Deaton  - Jimmy "Duck" Holmes  - Robert Petway
6. Anything You Need  - Dan Auerbach  - Sam Bacco  - Kenny Brown  - Gabe Carter  - Mississippi Gabe Carter  - Eric Deaton  - David Ferguson  - Adam Schreiber
7. Willow Witchin'  - Nat Myers
8. Don't Let the Devil Ride  - Dan Auerbach  - Oris Mays  - Leon Michels  - Russ Pahl  - Leo Welch
9. No Lovin'  - Dan Auerbach  - Sam Bacco  -  Black Keys  - Patrick Carney
10. Daughter of Zion  - Dan Auerbach  - Sam Bacco  - Larry Hill  - Leon Michels  - Nick Movshon  - Glenn Schwartz  - Homer Steinweiss  - Joe Walsh
11. Buffalo Road  - Dan Auerbach  - Sam Bacco  - Kenny Brown  - Gabe Carter  - Mississippi Gabe Carter  - Eric Deaton  - Adam Schreiber
12. Collinwood Fire  - Glenn Schwartz

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Mississippi Gabe Carter   Primary Artist
Dan Auerbach   Primary Artist,Bass,Vocals,Percussion,Synthesizer,Guitar (Bass),Guitar (Electric),Vocals (Background)
Jimmy "Duck" Holmes   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Electric)
The Black Keys   Primary Artist
Joe Walsh   Primary Artist,Featured Artist,Guitar (Electric)
Glenn Schwartz   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Gabe Carter   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Electric)
R.L. Boyce   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Electric)
Robert Finley   Primary Artist,Vocals
Nat Myers   Primary Artist,Dobro,Guitar,Vocals
Moonrisers   Primary Artist
Leo Welch   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Electric)
Eric Deaton   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Libby Decamp   Dobro,Guitar
Patrick Carney   Drums
Adam Schreiber   Drums,Percussion
Richard Swift   Drums
Dave Roe   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Gene Chrisman   Drums
Russ Pahl   Guitar (Electric)
Sam Bacco   Drums,Percussion
Homer Steinweiss   Drums
Billy Sanford   Guitar (Electric)
Nick Movshon   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Leon Michels   Organ
Kinney Kimbrough   Drums
Christy Johnson   Vocals (Background)
Kenny Brown   Guitar (Electric)

Technical Credits

McKinley James   Assistant Engineer
Eric Deaton   Composer
M. Allen Parker   Engineer,Recording,Mixing
Josh Ditty   Engineer
Caleb VanBuskirk   Engineer,Assistant Engineer
Ryan Smith   Mastering Engineer,Compilation Mastering
Robert Finley   Composer
Alex Skelton   Assistant Engineer
Larry Niehues   Photography
Tyler Zwiep   Assistant Engineer
Jonny Ulman   Assistant Engineer
Jonny Ullman   Assistant Engineer
Nat Myers   Composer
Larry L Hill   Composer
Evan Close   Photography
Libby Decamp   Composer
Robert Fetway   Composer
Alysse Gafkjen   Photography
Perry Shall   Design
Greg Calbi   Mastering Engineer
Dan Auerbach   Mixing,Composer,Producer,Recording Producer
Patrick Carney   Composer
Robert Petway   Composer
Ranie Burnette   Composer
Rev. Oris Mays   Composer
Steve Fallone   Mastering Engineer
Collin Dupuis   Recording
Kent Kimbrough   Arranger,Composer,Orchestration
Glenn Schwartz   Composer,Photography
Gabe Carter   Composer
David Ferguson   Composer
Joshua Black Wilkins   Photography
Lawrence Russell Brown   Composer
Kenny Brown   Composer
Jim Herrington   Photography
Larry Hill   Composer