Artist: Lee Roy Parnell
Album: Midnight Believer
Bitrate: 247kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Vector
Genre: Country
Size: 90.04 megs
PlayTime: 0h 48min 18sec total
Rip Date: 2017-09-15
Store Date: 2017-08-11
Track List:
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01. Hours In Between 5:03
02. Midnight Believer 6:04
03. Pontchartrain 4:32
04. Too Far Gone 4:51
05. Sunny Days (Feat. The Fairfield 4:21
Four)
06. Want Whatcha Have 3:52
07. Hair Of The Dog 4:30
08. Going Uptown 3:50
09. Tied Up And Tangled 4:34
10. Some Time Ago 6:41
Release Notes:
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It took Lee Roy Parnell a long time to deliver a sequel to Back to the Well, the
2006 album that found the onetime country singer devoting himself to the blues.
Midnight Believer, released 11 years after Back to the Well, finds Parnell
following a similar soulful blues direction, settling into a supple Southern
groove while occasionally finding time for outsized rave-ups. As good as the
SRV-styled fanfare of the opener, "Hours in Between," is, the key to the album
is those soft, sweet moments when Parnell gets to ride a laid-back rhythm, croon
words of love, and lay down a few lyrical leads. This sound is so alluring that
when he cranks things up on "Want Whatcha' Have" -- arriving at the midway
point, or where the second side would naturally start -- it's disconcerting,
feeling ham-handed. This impression is only only accentuated by the
effectiveness of its immediate successor, the tightly wound Hendrix-ian "Hair of
the Dog," the tune that kicks off a slightly livelier second half, but even if
the volume is a touch louder, what appeals is Parnell's light touch: with only a
few exceptions, he's not pushing so hard, he's relying on his refined skills and
the results are quite enjoyable.