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Butt Naked Free
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Track Listing
- Talkin' 'Bout Wings 'N' Brew
- Waiting On The Cards To Fall
- Let Me Stay Awhile
- Writing Paper Blues
- Sometimes I Wish...
- High Flying Rocket
- Never Met No Woman Treats Me Like You Do
- Sugarbelle Blue
- Meet Me Where The River Turns
- My Rambling Ways
- Come On Sally Hitch A Ride
- Ain't No Bluesman
- Place Where I Come From (Butt Naked Free)
- Raining In My Soul
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #191435 in Music
- Released on: 2000-03-06
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .24 pounds
Editorial Reviews
CD Description
Armed with both 6- and 12-string guitars and an engagingly raspy singing style, Guy Davis carries on the legacy of country-blues alongside a small class of younger musicians that includes Keb' Mo, Corey Harris and Alvin Youngblood-Hart. Onhis fourth album, Davis pens a broad range of songs that touch on broken dreams ("Raining In My Soul"), teenage femme fatales ("Sugarbelle Blue") and high-stakes gambling ("Waiting On The Cards To Fall").
Family serves as important motivation for this raconteur (whose parents are actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee). Results of this inspiration include the fleet-fingered instrumental "The Place Where I Come From (Butt Naked Free)" inspired by Davis' then infant son's crazy-legs dance and the jaunty "Ain't No Bluesman", written for this same child to sing when he got older. Elsewhere, Davis looked to Blind Willie McTell for a strolling version of his "Writing Paper Blues" (fleshed out by organist T-Bone Walk anddrummer Levon Helm). Other highlights include the bittersweet "Let Me Stay Awhile" and "High Flying Rocket", a humoroussexual ode rife with double-entendres.
Customer Reviews
Glorious glorious blues
Guy Davis really excelled himself with this album. The man is a very talented solo entertainer in the flesh, and those are the kinds of guys who often make a mess of album's with bands like this one.
This one works though, in spades.
The title track, an instrumental, is a real foot-tapper. Waiting for the Cards to Fall, is quite gloriously nasty and beaty.
The arrangements really work and don't crowd out Davis. One of the best acoustic blues albums of recent years.
