James Cotton - Mighty Long Time (1991)
BAND/ARTIST: James Cotton
- Title: Mighty Long Time
- Year Of Release: 1991
- Label: Antone's Records #ANT 0015CD
- Genre: Harmonica Blues, Chicago Blues
- Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Tracks+Cue+m3u,Log) / MP3 CBR320
- Total Time: 00:52:26
- Total Size: 337 / 147 Mb (Full Scans)
- WebSite: Album Preview
James Henry Cotton was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, who performed and recorded with many of the great blues artists of his time and with his own band. He played drums early in his career but is famous for his harmonica playing. Cotton began his professional career playing the blues harp in Howlin' Wolf's band in the early 1950s. He made his first recordings in Memphis for Sun Records, under the direction of Sam Phillips. In 1955, he was recruited by Muddy Waters to come to Chicago and join his band. Cotton became Waters's bandleader and stayed with the group until 1965. In 1965 he formed the Jimmy Cotton Blues Quartet, with Otis Spann on piano, to record between gigs with the Muddy Waters band. He eventually left to form his own full-time touring group. His first full album, on Verve Records, was produced by the guitarist Mike Bloomfield and the singer and songwriter Nick Gravenites, who later were members of the band Electric Flag. In the 1970s, Cotton played harmonica on Muddy Waters' Grammy Award–winning 1977 album Hard Again, produced by Johnny Winter.
Track List:
01. Straighten Up Baby [3:09]
02. Everything Gonna Be Alright [3:15]
03. Black Nights [5:19]
04. Blow Wind Blow [3:46]
05. Sugar Sweet [4:17]
06. Moanin' At Midnight [3:07]
07. Baby Please [5:36]
08. Hold Me In Your Arms [4:04]
09. Call It Stormy Monday [6:43]
10. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy [3:37]
11. Northside Cadillac [4:13]
12. Mighty Long Time [5:19]
Personnel:
Bass – Calvin Jones, Larry Eisenberg, Sarah Brown
Drums – George Rains, Willie Smith
Guitar – Derek O'Brien, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmie Vaughan, Luther Tucker, Matt Murphy, Wayne Bennett
Piano – Denny Freeman, Mel Brown, Mike Kindred, Pinetop Perkins, Reese Wynans
Saxophone – Choo Bari, Mark Kazanoff, Red Rails
Vocals, Harmonica – James Cotton
Although the titles are all familiar (most of them a little too much so), Cotton and his all-star cohorts (guitarists Jimmie Vaughan, Matt Murphy, Luther Tucker, Hubert Sumlin, and Wayne Bennett, with the omnipresent Perkins on keys) pull the whole thing off beautifully. Cotton's cover of Wolf's "Moanin' at Midnight" is remarkably eerie in its own right, and he romps through Muddy Waters' "Blow Wind Blow" and "Sugar Sweet" with joyous alacrity.
~ Bill Dahl, All Music
Track List:
01. Straighten Up Baby [3:09]
02. Everything Gonna Be Alright [3:15]
03. Black Nights [5:19]
04. Blow Wind Blow [3:46]
05. Sugar Sweet [4:17]
06. Moanin' At Midnight [3:07]
07. Baby Please [5:36]
08. Hold Me In Your Arms [4:04]
09. Call It Stormy Monday [6:43]
10. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy [3:37]
11. Northside Cadillac [4:13]
12. Mighty Long Time [5:19]
Personnel:
Bass – Calvin Jones, Larry Eisenberg, Sarah Brown
Drums – George Rains, Willie Smith
Guitar – Derek O'Brien, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmie Vaughan, Luther Tucker, Matt Murphy, Wayne Bennett
Piano – Denny Freeman, Mel Brown, Mike Kindred, Pinetop Perkins, Reese Wynans
Saxophone – Choo Bari, Mark Kazanoff, Red Rails
Vocals, Harmonica – James Cotton
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