Artist.......: Doug Cox And Salil Bhatt
Album........: Slide To Freedom 2 Make A Better World
Label........: Northernblues
Genre........: Blues
Catnr........: 0053
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jun-27-2009
str.date.....: Mar-31-2009
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.dougcox.org
track title time
01. Make a Better World 04:22
02. A Letter Home 09:52
03. I Scare Myself 04:24
04. Blessings 08:11
05. Amazing Grace 05:21
06. The Moods of Madhuvanti 10:18
07. For You Blue 02:59
08. Freedom Raga 05:33
Runtime 51:00 min
Size 72,7 MB
Release Notes:
Doug Cox and Salil Bhatt's first album SLIDE TO
FREEDOM was a genuine musical landmark, brilliant
players successfully marrying rural roots
traditions from opposite sides of the planet.
Mississippi Delta meets Ganges Delta. Their latest
collaboration, powered once again by the tablas of
Ramkumesh Kumar and guest appearances by Salil's
esteemed Grammy-winning father Vishwa Mohan Bhatt,
proves conclusively that this musical intermarriage
was not just a stunt but the start of a new world
genre.s
MAKE A BETTER WORLD is even better than its
predecessor, thanks in large part to vocals by New
Orleans soul singer John Boutte that take things
all the way down the Mississippi, to the foot of
Canal Street in the French Quarter, without ever
losing their back-country flavour. Call them
Planetary Po' Boys. The
brand-new-but-instantly-timeless sound they all
create together makes the point that all over the
world, the rural poor and the urban poor all sing
the same blues, all yearn for the same things.
Musical communication like this is one of the
surest ways to make a better world.
Spider Robinson, podcaster and author of VERY HARD
CHOICES [Baen Books]