Artist: Ellis Hooks
Album: Needle In A Haystack
Bitrate: 261kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Blues Boulevard
Genre: Blues
Size: 97.16 megs
PlayTime: 0h 49min 16sec total
Rip Date: 2015-12-15
Store Date: 2015-00-00
Track List:
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01. Needle In A Haystack 3:41
02. Train 2 Train 3:16
03. To You Who Have Wronged Me 3:34
04. Los Angeles 4:20
05. Time is A Mofo 3:58
06. Live The Day 3:28
07. Now You Know 3:38
08. I Stand I Scream 4:25
09. Shortcuts To Infinity 3:31
10. Put Down Your Needles 3:47
11. Another Planet 3:21
12. Follow The Seasons 4:30
13. America, I'm Coming Home 3:47
Release Notes:
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Ellis Hooks embodies the very finest aspects of Southern musical traditions of
Blues, Soul and Gospel; his voice, while evocative of some of the greatest such
as Little Milton, Sam Cooke, James Carr, and even Otis Redding, is nevertheless
his very own; his unique luscious baritone a trademark. With stylish guitar
phrases, at times reminiscent of a more organic Robert Cray, Ellis Hooks' Needle
In A Haystack connects with the past while looking into the future. His
emotional realism is what makes Hooks larger than the sum total of his
individual influences; one of the most exciting young Blues voices today. The
album was co-produced by Jon Tiven and Stephen Kalinich. Tiven is known for
producing, among others Robert Plant, Nick Lowe, Wilson Pickett, Arthur
Alexander, Don Covay, Little Milton, Felix Cavaliere & Steve Cropper, as well as
Alex Chilton, and last but not least the late great B.B. King! Co-producer and
lyricist Stephen Kalinich is best known for his collaborations with The Beach
Boys. Kalinich is also the lyricist for Brian Wilson's duet with Paul McCartney:
A Friend Like You. Not only a gifted lyricist, Kalinich is also a painter, and
has kindly provided some of his work to illustrate the booklet of Ellis Hooks'
newest album Needle In A Haystack. The team of Ellis Hooks, Stephen Kalinich and
Jon Tiven has an extensive and extremely impressive combined rΘsumΘ and the
combination and result of these formidable talents is Needle In A Haystack, a
brand-new Ellis Hooks album, recorded, at the Hormone Studios, in Nashville,
Tennessee, with a backing band directed by Tiven, who also plays guitar,
keyboards and tenor saxophone, and includes his wife, Sally, on bass guitar.
Guitarist Steve Cropper of Stax-fame co-wrote To You Who Have Wronged Me, and
plays guitar on the track. Needle In A Haystack: 13 emotionally intense songs,
setting a new benchmark for contemporary Southern Soul and Gospel tinged Blues
albums.