Artist: Sunnyland Slim
Title: The Sonet Blues Story
Label: Verve
Release Date: 2006
Format: MP3 @ 320 K
In this charming solo piano session recorded as a live-in-the-studio session during a 1974 Scandinavian tour, Sunnyland Slim (Albert Luandrew) works the empty studio exactly as he would a small blues club, casually (but not without purpose) introducing several of the songs, setting them up with what would initially appear to be random piano trills and vocal asides, and then the song slips in and begins as the most natural thing in the world. This kind of up close intimacy makes this set a particularly compelling portrait.
Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden 1974
Track list:
01. Couldn't Find a Mule
02. Gonna Be My Baby
03. Woman I Ain't Gonna Drink No More Whiskey
04. Days of Old
05. She's Got a Thing Goin' On
06. She's So Mellow
07. Get Hip to Yourself
08. Bessie Mae
09. I Had It Hard
10. She Used to Love Me
Personnel:
Sunnyland Slim - vocals, piano