Chris Thomas King - Rise (2006)

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Chris Thomas King - Rise
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Blues

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This is one of the finest recordings Chris Thomas King has done. He has made a disc that holds together on all levels and it speaks forcefully about what he feels is happening in this country, particularly in New Orleans, in recent times and predominantly post Katrina. He wrote and arranged seven of the eleven songs and they deal with his feelings and express his rage at the treatment. Two songs are traditional songs he arranged, and then he does an electrifying versions of Joni Mitchell's, Big Yellow Taxi, (listen to what the guitar is saying), and then there is the haunting version of the George Weiss/Bob Thiele, What A Wonderful World.
Though he takes liberties and gives new meanings to songs of others, it is on his own songs that he puts it all together and speaks his mind, straight out and pulls on punches. Give a listen to the way he welds words and music together on Faith, so that his pain and suffering are conveyed. His anger and frustration are transmitted heart to heart through the use of his voice, language and his playing. On some songs he demonstrates his versatility as a multi-insturmentalist, however this disc portrays some of his most primeval guitar work and at the same time some of his most sensitive guitar playing. He uses the guitar at times to highlight his statements and at other times as a counterpoint to what he is saying, that emphasis the dichotomies.
Upon hearing the introduction to Big Yellow Taxi there was a pause in the thinking, and a wondering of what is this, but as the song played out it made perfect sense. There are no hip-hop digressions on this disc. King sticks to the Blues and it sure pays off with one of his best and most cohesive discs yet.

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CD:
Label 21st Century Blues
Orig Year 2006
Catalog number 2114

Tracks:
1. Chris Thomas King - What Would Jesus Do? (4:06)
2. Chris Thomas King - Faith (5:25)
3. Chris Thomas King - Baptized in Dirty Water (5:06)
4. Chris Thomas King - Flow Mississippi Flow (4:10)
5. Chris Thomas King - St. James Infirmary (4:38)
6. Chris Thomas King - When Magnolias Bloom (3:43)
7. Chris Thomas King - Big Yellow Taxi (3:23)
8. Chris Thomas King - Like a Hurricane (Ghost of Marie Laveau) (5:06)
9. Chris Thomas King - Deepest Ocean (4:31)
10. Chris Thomas King - 'Tis the Last Rose of Summer (4:13)
11. Chris Thomas King - What a Wonderful World (2:24)

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