Larry Braggs - Jus' Sangin' 2011 (iTunes Purchased Version)

TRACK LIST

1. I WANT YOU
2. DIDN’T I (BLOW YOUR MIND THIS TIME)
3. THESE THREE WORDS
4. BUSTED
5. YOU MAKE ME FEEL BRAND NEW
6. FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
7. NEW DAY
8. A SONG FOR YOU
9. BLUEBERRY HILL
10. WORK TO DO
11. A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
12. CALLING YOU
13. LOVE’S IN NEED OF LOVE TODAY
14. PEOPLE GET READY

Larry Braggs (Lead vocalist of Tower Of Power) sings Soul Classics from the Great American Soulbook.


Eric Clapton had just come off a successful tour promoting his tribute to "...the most important blues musician who ever lived. He was true, absolutely, to his own vision, and as deep as I have gotten into the music over the last 30 years, I have never found anything more deeply soulful than Robert Johnson. His music remains the most powerful cry that I think you can find in the human voice, really. ... it seemed to echo something I had always felt." Disk Eyes Productions had an ongoing relationship with the publishing house: Music & Media International who controlled the copyrights to the Robert Johnson catalog. They were looking for their own set of contemporary masters that they could market to film and television and asked us if we would create the recordings. In our research for musicians and singers our paths crossed with Tower of Power’s front man, Larry Braggs. We brought Larry into the studio to sing two of our unfinished Johnson masters, STOP BREAKIN’ DOWN, and LOVE IN VAIN. I was moved by LB’s effortless dialog with his talent. I would watch him dial in on a song until it was literally surrounded, and like Robert Johnson, LB is true to his own vision. We were both happy with the results and came to the conclusion that we would begin recording together whenever the opportunity arose. For instance, Tower of Power will settle into Seattle at Jazz Alley for a 4-night stint and since Disk Eyes is based in Seattle, it would give us ample opportunity to put material together for his remarkable voice. On another occasion, Larry would be returning from a Tower engagement in New York to his home in Texas and would swing through Nashville to coincide with our scheduled recording session. We started experimenting with different genres in Blues, Soul, Dance and Jazz and ultimately settled in on classic tracks from the virtually unlimited resource of great American soul music. This became a labor of love and over time accumulated the material for Larry’s first collaboration with Disk Eyes, “Jus’ Sangin’”. In the end, this project became an international event with sessions in London, San Francisco, Nashville and after providing the final selection of songs to our friend and colleague, Ashley Whitfield at Evolution Music in Hong Kong, we are able to bring this project to the fans of Larry Braggs and lovers of great soulful music. This record covers the gamut from Ray Charles’ full horn arrangement of “Busted” to the Leon Russell penned “A Song For You” featuring the Seattle Ballet Orchestra’s hand-picked string section. Each of the 14 tracks on this album reflects thoughtful consideration and moves through the moods with fluid grace. Thanks LB . . . . . Looking forward!