Artist: Ian Siegal & the Mississippi Mudbloods
Album: Candy Store Kid
Bitrate: 243kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Nugene Records
Genre: Blues
Size: 84.79 megs
PlayTime: 0h 46min 14sec total
Rip Date: 2012-10-24
Store Date: 2012-10-05
Track List:
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01. Bayou Country 2:46
02. Loose Cannon 3:30
03. I Am the Train 5:01
04. So Much Trouble 4:18
05. Kingfish 5:16
06. The Fear 5:08
07. Earlie Grace Jnr 4:31
08. Green Power 4:23
09. Strong Woman 2:15
10. Rodeo 4:02
11. Hard Pressed (What Da Fuzz?) 5:04
Release Notes:
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With Candy Store Kid, Ian Siegal has just painted his masterpiece. This latest
album takes its name from a line in the song Loose Cannon, and the thrill that
Ian felt as he pick-ænÆ-mixed some of the greatest players on the contemporary
blues scene (ôYou get to feeling like the proverbial kid in a candy store,ö he
recalls).
Ian is renowned for his songwriting but Killer songs were only half the
equation. Spin Candy Store Kid and youÆre also hearing chemistry. As Ian stepped
up to the microphone at the Zebra Ranch studio in Coldwater, Mississippi, he was
flanked by his dream-team of local legends that he collectively coined The
Mississippi Mudbloods. Cody Dickinson is a towering presence on drums,
percussion and piano. DickinsonÆs multi-instrumentalist brother and Black Crowes
sideman Luther Dickinson was enlisted to add guitar and mandolin, and bass on
several tracks. Ian first met Alvin Youngblood Hart during 2010Æs The Skinny
sessions, when the Grammy-winning guitarist swung by the studio and ended up
tracking some guitar and backing vocals. There was a mutual desire to work
together again, and for Candy Store Kid, he was welcomed back on bass, guitar
and backing vocals.
Inevitably, when word spread that a limey musician was tearing it up at the
local studio, Zebra Ranch became a drop-in centre, with cameos from Garry
Burnside, who provides sizzling musicianship on four tracks and composition on
Strong Woman; and LightninÆ Malcolm, who penned So Much Trouble. IanÆs
gravel-flecked voice is also supplemented on several songs by the soaring backup
of Stefanie Bolton, Sharisse Norman and Shontelle Norman. The candy store was
open for business.
For Ian, Candy Store Kid represents û in his own words - his best recorded work
to date. ItÆs hard to argue faced with these 11 classic songs. In a scene where
too much blues tastes the same, Candy Store Kid is an explosion of colours and
flavours.