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 11/The Train I Ride comes as CD-R and features 22 tracks and about 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. 11 / The Train I Ride
01. Son Volt - Going, Going, Gone
02. Ramsay Midwood - Alligator's Lament
03. Nick Gravenites - Killing My Love
04. Dan Penn - Memphis Women And Chicken
05. Jim Stafford - L.A. Mama
06. Little Sonny - A Woman Named Trouble
07. Luther Allison - Now You Got It
08. John Sebastian - Dixie Chicken
09. Kelly Willis & Jay Farrar - Truck Stop Country
10. Bobby Powell - Thank You
11. Junior Wells - The Train I Ride
12. Al Anderson - Ain't No Woman Finer Lookin'
13. Cici James - Whipping Post
14. Black Crowes - Hard To Handle
15. Bob Darin - The Harvest
16. Bob Seger - The Stealer
17. Juicy Lucy - Big Lil
18. Charlie Brown - Ro Ro Rosey
19. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Midnight Rider
20. Jonah Tolchin - Thousand Mile Night
21. Robert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes
22. Nicolette Larson - Two Trains