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 16/Shotgun Willie comes as CD-R and features 23 tracks and 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. 16 / Shotgun Willie
01. Jeannie Greene - Sure As Sin
02. Bobby Bare - Hot Afternoon
03. Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
04. Boz Scaggs - I'll Be Long Gone
05. J.J. Cale - Thirteen Days
06. Steve Young - Lonesome On'ry And Mean
07. Wayne Carson - All Night Feeling
08. Tony Joe White - They Caught The Devil And Put Him In Jail In Eudora Arkansas
09. Delta Moon - Nothing You Can Tell A Fool
10. Delbert McClinton - It Ain't Whatcha Eat But How You Chew It
11. Travis Wammack - Put On Your Shoes And Walk
12. Sam Samudio - 15 Degrees Capricorn
13. Jimmy Witherspoon - Spoonful
14. Howlin' Wolf - Romance Without Finance
15. Eddie Kirkland - Mother-In-Law
16. John Lee Hooker - Homework
17. Buddy Miles - Memphis Train
18. Tom Jones - Polk Salad Annie
19. Jimmy McCracklin - I Finally Got You
20. Little Sonny - You Can Be Replaced
21. O.V. Wright - I've Been Searching
22. Dr. John - Can't Git Enuff
23. Aaron Neville - Hercules (Chrispop edit)
