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CD62
Rod Price - "Open"
(Burnside Records BCD0039-2) Stone Hut Music/Import
www.rodprice.com / www.burnsiderecords.com
10 tracks, 48 mins 04 secs.
****½
Original Foghat slide guitarist Rod Price was born in Chiswick, London on 22 November 1947. Incidentally that date is Saint Cecilia's Day (The Patron Saint of Music). For Rod Price it's a case of what goes around comes around. Before he joined Foghat in 1971, he was working the clubs of London as member of the Shakey Vick's Big City Blues Band around '67-'68.
Rod Price went on to form Dynaflow Blues and later on he replaced the late Paul Kossoff in the heavy blues quartet, Black Cat Bones. Check out "Barbed Wire Sandwich" released in 1969. "Open" sees Price and Shakey Vick playing together again after all those years. Vick aka Graham Vickery is a very talented and strong vocalist and harmonica player.
"Open" was recorded on 12 7 13 January 2000 at Millbrook Sound Studios in New York. The rest of the lineup is John O. Reilly (drums), Bruno Ravel (bass) and Kinny Landrum (Hammond B3, piano & b. vocals). Tom Dawes, who also adds bass guitar & b. vocals, produced it. The closing rousing instrumental is the only original. Price plays some sizzling slide guitar on "Open".
The album kicks off with a rocking version of Johnny Young's "One More Time". Other great songs are "Bluebird Blues" with some of Shakey's killer harp, another instrumental "Sitting On Top Of The World", Freddie King's "The Stumble", Slim Harpo's "Got Love If You Want It" and Sonny Boy's "Elevator Woman". This solo release is brilliant. Just get it.
John Bates
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