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- Date Released: July 28, 2007
- Genre: Blues
- Label: Last Call Records / Believe Digital
One of the last live sets that this Chicago bluesman would ever put to tape.
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We Say...
"A bedroom without a woman," declares Luther "Snakeboy" Johnson, "is just like a heart that don't have no beat." Man, that's one thing about the blues — it doesn't mince words. I'll admit I was drawn to this album because I just had to check out anything by someone named "Snakeboy," and I was not disappointed. This is for fans of the skeletal, trancey blues of Junior Kimbrough, even if it's a little faster, fancier and funkier.
On the Chicago-style Get Down to the Nitty Gritty, Mr. Johnson — who was a mainstay of Muddy Waters' mid-'60s band and passed away in 1976, the year this live date in Rochester, NY, was recorded — plays standards like "Got My Mojo Working" and "Hoochie Coochie Man" with the deep soul they require. It's hard to think of a more aptly named album. And the groove this deft band lays down is deep — the drummer plays so far behind the beat, it sounds like he showed up after the gig was over. What makes a groove anyway? I suppose someone could analyze it with a computer and figure out what makes a great one — or they could just pull up a frosty one, kick back and listen to this album — "Lonesome in My Bedroom" is a devastating slow blues, and Johnson's guitar solo on the epic "Long Distance Call" will flash-fry anything within 100 yards.
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| 01. |  |
Lonesome In My Bedroom |
7:18 |
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| 02. | |
Got My Mojo Working |
3:34 |
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| 03. | |
Woman, You Don't Have To Go |
6:05 |
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| 04. | |
Get Down To The Nitty Gritty |
3:30 |
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| 05. | |
Long Distance Call |
10:45 |
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| 06. | |
Rock Mr Baby |
4:57 |
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| 07. | |
Don't Start Me Talkin |
2:54 |
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| 08. | |
Take It Off Him And Put It On Me |
5:57 |
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| 09. | |
You Don't Have To Go |
3:31 |
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| 10. | |
Hoochie Coochie Man |
5:12 |
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| 11. | |
Baby What You Want Me To Do |
5:39 |
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11 Total Tracks, 59:22 Total Length
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