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 17/Delta Dawn comes as CD-R and features 20 tracks and very 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.Keep On Chooglin' - Vol 17 / Delta Dawn
01. Alex Harvey - Delta Dawn
02. J.J. Cale - Don't Cry Sister
03. Cash McCall - Junkie For Your Love
04. Colter Wall - Sleeping On The Blacktop
05. Hoyt Axton - That's All Right
06. Jerry Reed - Gator
07. Priscilla Coolidge - On The Road
08. Charley Crockett - Travelin' Blues
09. David Clayton-Thomas - Stealin' In The Name Of The Lord
10. James Talley - Woman Trouble
11. Lincoln Durham - Reckoning Lament
12. Billy Branch - Sympathy For The Devil
13. Alan James Eastwood - Closer To The Truth
14. Hookfoot - Don't Let It Bring You Down
15. Waylon Jennings - Are You Ready For The Country
16. Alan Gerber - Sigmund's Blues
17. James McMurtry - Bayou Tortous
18. Sheepdogs - I've Got A Hole Where My Heart Should Be
19. Quaker City Night Hawks - Suit In The Back
20. Mike Harrison - Smokestack Lightning