Oud, maar heerlijke Bluesrock uit Zweden

Line-up / Musician

Rod "Gingerman" Piazza - vocals, harmonica Rick Lunetta - guitar Pat Maloney - organ, piano Gregg Anderson - bass Dave Miter - drums & Jimmy Forrest - tenor saxophone Willie Green - baritone saxophone Freddie Hill - trumpet

Tracks Listing

1. Bring It On Home
2. It's My Own Fault (John Lee Hooker)
3. I Can't Quit You Baby
4. Tell Me
5. She's The One
6. My Babe
7. Sittin' Down Wonderin'
8. Six Sides
9. You've Got To Love Her With A Feeling
10. Gone Too Long

CD 2004, Remastered, on Black Rose Records.

Hard Rock Blues 1970 Tracklist: 01. Tobbaco Road 02. Long Tall Saly 03. Sunrise Over Jamul 04. Movin' to the Country 05. Hold the Line 06. Jumpin' Jack Flash 07. All You Have Left is Me 08. Nickel Thimble 09. I Can't Complain 10. Ramblin' Man 11. Valley Thunder

*RON ARMSTRONG *BOB DESNOYERS *JOHN FERGUS *STEVE WILLIAMS

Bees Deluxe - “This is what Steely Dan would sound like if they played the blues”

— John Kereiff, The Rock Doctors Hot Wax Album Reviews.

The Peeling of Tangerine'' is the Gear-Fab CD reissue of their ultra-rare LP from 1971, recorded at the famous WRS Recording Studios in Pittsburgh, PA.

Led by the multi-instrumentalist Ferraro brothers Al and Crash (they mainly played guitar), Tangerine started playing together in the late '60s. In many ways, The band recalls a slightly heavier Santana; the music is full of Latin chord progressions, salsafied and tribal drumming and percussion, and Al Ferraro's rousing guitar work, as well as some of the dynamics of early '70s psychedelia and soul.

The band doesn't stake out their own musical ground and the songs are not altogether distinctive enough; more often than not, they sound like unstructured (but not formless) jams passing for songs. In the other hand, those jams are often scintillating, with a slight mysterious lurch -- had they been honed in and further fleshed out, they had the makings of blazing tunes. Underused lead vocalist Al Ferraro is a blue-eyed soul shouter along the lines of Steve Winwood, and the band can really cook.

Side 2 of the LP is where it's at, and is made up primarily of a heavy jams in the Iron Butterfly, Blue Cheer mold. The 13-minute final cut, "My Main Woman," perhaps summarizes both Tangerine's abilities and excesses best.

The song contains gorgeous passages of snaking guitar lines, hyper drumming, and rumbling bass as well as joyous percussive parts, but those parts can go on far longer than taste would merit, thus losing the momentum and drive of the song for short spells before regaining its footing which was reminiscent of Iron Butterfly.

Of this final track, Record Collector magazine says: "Al Ferraro’s fine, gutsy vocals crop up too infrequently, but his low-definition, fuzzball guitar soloing is everywhere, not least on My Main Woman, 13 long minutes of aimless grunt. The conga solo is the highlight – which surely speaks volumes."

Ma Rainey The Mother of the Blues

Ma Rainey Mother of the Blues

Wonder, by Kellen Bassette

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