SWEETMAN with HIS SOUTH SIDE GROOVE KINGS:
Austin Backalley Blue
This is butt-shakin’, tassel-twirlin’ Texas strip joint blues.
Sweetman’s raw, in-your-face tenor sax leads a down-and-dirty Austin R&B band (including veterans of the Fabulous Thunderbirds). All-instrumental and startlingly vivid, the kickass electric guitars, trumpet, sax, electric bass, and drums will get your backfield in motion. You’ll hear every detail: the spit in Sweetman’s mouthpiece, the dirt under the guitarist’s fingernails, and the delicate sound of cotton panties as they fall to the floor ;')
A Bound For Sound Recording of Merit. Stereophile’s Wes Phillips proclaims “The dynamic shadings are impressive… the sound remains articulate and focused…it could corrupt a bishop.” Includes R&B hits by King Curtis, Magic Sam and Jimmy Forrest. (#02752)
Michael Sweetman, tenor sax
Bill Warfield, trumpet
Jack Morgan, guitar
Mark Korpi, guitar
Rudy Turner, guitar*
Jeff Sarli, bass
John Coontz, bass+
Mike buck, drums
TRACK LISTING:
1. JEST SMOOCHIN'+ (King Curtis)
2. ANGELA'S STRUT* (M.Sweetman)
3. BACKALLEY BLUE* (M.Sweetman)
4. ZIPPERLIPS* (J.Morgan)
5. LOOKIN' GOOD (Magic Sam Maghett)
6. NIGHT TRAIN+ (J.Forrest)
7. HOUSEWARMING* (H.McGhee)
8. GRANDMA (J.Hunter)
9. STROLLIN' THE DRAG (M.Sweetman)
10. CRAZY HOUSE (Sweetman/Morgan/Sarli/Buck)
11. HARLEM NOCTURNE+ (E.Hagen)
12. TYRONE'S NIGHT OUT* (J.Morgan)
/ Please, don't let the Bishop listen ...( have mercy ;')