Views from Western Australia

August 28, 2007

Duke Robillard

Filed under: Music Reviews

 “World Full of Blues”

Robillard has been playing the blues for forty years and the W.C. Handy Awards recently named him "Best Blues Guitarist" two years in a row.  He was Tom Wait’s 2006 tour guitarist; he has recorded with Bob Dylan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Blind Boys of Alabama, and many others. 

This album includes Chicago blues, swing, funk, jump, soul and gospel.  Along with original tunes, Robillard plays songs by blues legends like Memphis Slim (“Steppin’ Out”), Jimmy Reed (“Bright Lights, Big City”), T-Bone Walker (“Treat Me So Lowdown”) and Bo Diddley (“Who Do You Love”), along with Bob Dylan (“Everything Is Broken”), Tom Waits (”Low Side Of The Road”) and Eric Bibb (“Too Much Stuff”).

It has more blues harp than any previous Robillard recording along with great sax work and a tremendous horns section on some numbers.  The organ and guitar on the final track is in the soul-jazz style made famous by Jimmy Smith.

If you are looking for an album that gives an overview of the blues, this is it!

Double CD Set
Released  June 2007

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