Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges – Alive In Tallahassee

Armadillo Music ARMD 00042

18 songs – 79 minutes

www.eugenehideawaybridges.com

Honey musical gypsy and historian Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges dropped in to one of his favorite haunts on the planet to record this alive prepare of soul drenched blues, which pays homage to his father as information technology breathes life through new songs into the tunes he start heard at his dad's side.

Built-in and raised in Louisiana, Bridges is true blues royalty, the quaternary of five children born to Othineil Bridges – better known as guitarist Hideaway Slim. His mother was a fellow member of Tina Turner's family unit from whom the future bluesman acquired his first guitar.

At present 55, Eugene has been wandering the earth since leaving home at age 16 to bring together the Air Force. A gospel vocaliser with his brothers in his youth, he joined The New Chosen and so The Mighty Clouds Of Joy afterwards his discharge. He formed his own band, mixing blues, R&B and gospel, subsequently moving to Houston, but relocated to Paris in the '80s when bassist Big Joe Turner – formerly of B.B. King's band and not to be dislocated with the pianist of the same name — invited him to join his Memphis Dejection Caravan.

Hideaway stayed for a yr earlier reforming his own group. His popularity in Europe soared after recording the Born To Be Blue album, which was produced by Mike Vernon, the legendary British historian and music executive. Organizations in the United kingdom and France both recognized him as their vocalizer of the year during that period.

A 2017 Jus' Blues Music Foundation Lucy Honor honoree – the lifetime achievement trophy named after Albert Rex's guitar, Bridges has been dividing his time between the U.Due south., the westward coast of Australia and Singapore, where he's spokesman for the national airline, for the past several years. Only he stopped off at Bradfordville Blues Social club in Tallahassee, Fla., to capture this disc in his travels.

As he states in the liner notes: "I must recollect my past for our tomorrow! This is the audio I always here my Daddy singing, and the guitar riffs I hear in my caput every 24-hour interval of my life… Hideaway Slim is e'er in there – the ways he talked, the way he sang, the riffs he would play. It's like when we would sit on the front end porch and only play."

Captured in front of an eager audition on Aug., 11, 2017, Live In Tallahassee features Bridges accompanied by keyboard player David Webb and a rhythm department of bassist Kelpie McKenzie and drummer Pat Manske in a set of 17 Hideaway originals and one cover.

Bridges fires out of the gate with the uptempo shuffle "Step By Pace," kicked off with a super sweet unmarried-note guitar intro. Information technology tells the audience from the jump that they don't need an invitation to walk a mile in his blues shoes. The bloodshot "I Can Never Forget" recounts having a broken centre later on a lady walked out of his life. The theme continues in the Texas blues, "How Long," in which Bridges describes existence "tired of being ill and tired" of his current situation.

"When The Blues Overtake You" is an uptempo paean to the music Bridges loves. "Mom And Daddy'due south Place" is a not-and so-subtle bulletin to lover that the vocalist wants to meet her parents while the carol "Good One-time Days" promises his wife that he'll keep on loving her like the way he did the day they wed. Delivered from the point of a traveling musician, "Hold On A Footling Chip Longer" urges he to be patient, that he'll be home before long.

Despite its upbeat delivery, "This Old House" urges the lady to return because their abode's fallen autonomously since she'south been gone. Relationship themes go on for "How Long Volition It Have," "I Can't Wait" and "She's Out Of My Life" before financial difficulties surface in "Accept Domicile Pay." B.B. Rex's "Sugariness Petty Angel," the only encompass in the gear up, is up next earlier five more than originals — "Don't Telephone call It Supper," "I'chiliad Holding On," "I'll Exist A King," "I Can't Stop Loving You Baby" and "Rise Above It All" – bring the lengthy gear up to a shut.

Bachelor through multiple online sources, including direct from the artist's website (address above), Live In Tallahassee is a rock-solid CD from a tight band with a flawless commitment, and only your speed if you like your blues modernistic with an one-time-school feel.

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