Inspired by such great compilation like Country Got Soul, Delta Swamp Rock and Country Funk!
Comin’ right up, a steaming gumbo of down home, honey drippin’ Voodoo-Soul and rough-fried funky Blues with a large side order of countrified brain salad and gritty Southern Rock. These compilations encompass the elation of gospel with the sexual thrust of the blues, country hoedown harmony with inner city grit. It is alternately playful and melancholic, slow jammin’ and booty shakin’. It is both studio slick and barroom raw. And while these all may seem unlikely combinations at first glance, upon close listen, it all makes sweet sense.
Follow the Love Rustler train through the landscape of blues and country with stops in Jackson, Mississippi. Memphis, Tennessee. New Orleans, Louisiana. Big Rock, Arkansas. Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Old Funk, Georgia. The legendary south of country preachers, forgotten jailhouses, rowdy juke joints and jaded dreams of salvation.
The tunes are from the glorious era between 1970 and 1975 with some years plus and few minus. We found the best tunes on albums you thought you knew and searched a lot of relatively unknown bands and releases for exceptional tunage. If sonically imperfect we had the tracks mastered and listened to the bunch endlessly to achieve the perfect flow.
The Love Rustler recommends: “Pour yourself a drink and keep on chooglin’!”
Volume 27/Black Water comes as CD-R and features 23 tracks and vey close to 80 minutes of music. It comes with a cover- and traycard in a normal jewelbox. The CD label is printed. Limited to 50 copies.
This time it is a collaboration between The Love Rustler and Senor Mick, better know as one half of the Whiskey Preachin' radio show. For those shows he always digs up cool tunes from (mainly) the 70's that hardly anybody ever heard. Volume 27 features some Country-Rock, New Orleans swagger, some unknown Roots-rockers and more Southern grooves. 78 minutes of the finest music for less than a pack of cigarettes.
Keep On Chooglin' - Vol. 27/Black Water
01. The Doobie Brothers - Black Water
02. The Grass Roots - Hot Bright Lights
03. Paul Davis - Southern Man
04. Link Wray - Tail Dragger
05. Hoyt Axton - California Women
06. Don Harrison Band - Sixteen Tons
07. Hoodoo Rhythm Devils - Teach Your Daughter
08. Big Brother & The Holding Company - Funkie Jim
09. Poco - One Horse Blue
10. Redwing - The Underground Railway
11. The Raymond Froggatt Band - Watchin The Light
12. Little Feat - Hamburger Midnight
13. Warren Zevon - Wanted Dead Or Alive
14. Redbone - Maggie
15. Bloomfield/Hammond Jr./Dr. John - Pretty Thing
16. Doug Kershaw - Rag Mama Rag
17. Paul Butterfield Blues Band - Louisiana Flood
18. Canned Heat - You Am What You Am
19. Whitey Morgan And The 78's - Just Got Paid
20. Wet Willie - Grits Ain't Groceries
21. Atlanta Rhythm Section - Large Time
22. Black Oak Arkansas - Swimming In Quicksand
23. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Jacksonville Kid
Senor Mick> 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 15, 18, 22. The Love Rustler> the rest.
