Over 60 minutes from the
young champion of Louisiana blues guitar and harmonica. Includes
"Caught In The Jaws Of A Vice," "Outside Looking
In," and "Hoodoo Moon;" remastered in 20-bit audio.
With never-before-seen photos & special mini poster.
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Kenny Neal:
vocal, harp, electric and
acoustic guitar
WITH
Rhythm Guitar:
Ernie Lancaster or Bryan Bassett
Bass:
Noel Neal, except
Darnell Neal (7, 9)
Bob Greenlee (5, 8, 15)
Anthony Hardesty (3, 6)
Drums:
Kennard Johnson, except
Jim Payne (5, 7, 10, 13, 15)
Gralin Hoffman (3, 6, 8)
Mark Blair (7)
Keyboards:
Lucky Peterson, except
Kenny Burch (7)
Silent Partners (1):
Russell Jackson, Bass Guitar
Tony Coleman, Drums
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The Horny
Horns (1, 5):
Fred Wesley, Trombone
Maceo Parker, Alto Sax
The King Snake Horns:
Bill Samuel, Saxes & arrangements
Buzz Montsinger, Tenor Sax
Bob Greenlee, Baritone Sax & arrangements
Leroy Cooper, Baritone Sax
Bruce Staelens, Trumpet
Sylvester Polk, Trumpet
Danny "Boney" Fields, Trumpet
Jan Pattishall, Trombone
Tracks 1, 5 & 12 produced by Bob
Greenlee & Kenny Neal, 1990
Tracks 2, 9, 11 & 14 produced by Kenny Neal, Bob Greenlee
& Bruce Iglauer, 1992
Tracks 3, 6, 7 & 8 produced by Bob Greenlee &
Kenny Neal, 1988
Tracks 4 &16 produced by Kenny Neal, Bob Greenlee &
Bruce Iglauer, 1994
Tracks 10, 13, & 15 produced by Bob Greenlee &
Kenny Neal, 1989
All tracks recorded at King Snake Studios,
Sanford, FL, and mixed at Streeterville Studios,
Chicago, IL
Engineers: Bob Greenlee, Bryan Bassett, Andrew McIntire,
Pete Carr, Jay Shilliday, Dave Bell, Warren King &
Rick Bailey
Mixers: David Axelbaum, Jay Shilliday
& Julian Herzfeld
Deluxe Edition Series produced by Bob
DePugh, Bruce Iglauer and David Forte
Design by David Forte
Cover and Inlay photography by Koichi Uchida
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TRACKS
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1
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Caught
In The Jaws Of A Vise (Neal
& Greenlee, Booga Music/Midnight Creeper Music, BMI); from
Walking On Fire (AL 4795) |
(3:47) |
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2
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That
Knife Don't Cut No More (Neal,
Greenlee & Iglauer, Booga Music/Midnight Creeper Music/Eyeball
Music, BMI); from Bayou Blood (AL4809) |
(6:12) |
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3
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Outside
Looking In (Neal & Greenlee, Booga Music/Midnight
Creeper Music, BMI); from Big News From Baton Rouge!! (AL4764) |
(4:44) |
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4
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Hoodoo
Moon (Neal, Boylston & Greenlee, Booga Music/Perfect
Heart Music, adm. by Bug Music/Midnight Creeper Music, BMI);
from Hoodoo Moon (AL4825) |
(3:13) |
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5
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The
Truth Hurts (Neal, Greenlee, Payne & Lancaster,
Booga Music/Midnight Creeper Music/Booga Dooga Music, BMI);
from Walking On Fire (AL 4795) |
(4:28) |
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6
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Caught
Your Back Door Man (Neal,
Greenlee & Boone, Booga Music/Midnight Creeper Music, BMI);
from Big News From Baton Rouge!! (AL 4764) |
(4:38) |
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7
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Evalina
(Traditional, Arr. by Neal, Booga Music/Midnight Creeper
Music, BMI); from Big News From Baton Rouge!! (AL 4764) |
(3:59) |
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9
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Baby
Bee (Neal & Greenlee,
Booga Music/Midnight Creeper Music, BMI); from Big News From
Baton Rouge!! (AL 4764)) |
(4:30) |
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9
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Neal
And Prey (Neal, Booga Music, BMI); from Bayou Blood
(AL 4809) |
(3:49) |
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10
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Any
Fool Will Do (Neal
& Greenlee, Booga Music/Midnight Creeper Music, BMI); from
Devil Child (AL 4774) |
(3:56) |
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11
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Lightning's
Gonna Strike (Neal,
Greenlee & Iglauer, Booga Music/Midnight Creeper Music/ Eyeball
Music, BMI); from Bayou Blood (AL 4809) |
(3:40) |
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12
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Morning
After (Hughes & Neal, Eyeball Music/Booga Music,
BMI); from Walking On Fire (AL 4795) |
(3:06) |
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13
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The
Son I Never Knew (Payne
& Greenlee, Booga Dooga Music/Midnight Creeper Music, BMI)
from Devil Child (AL 4774) |
(3:47) |
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14
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Howling
At The Moon (Greenlee, Midnight Creeper
Music, BMI); from Bayou Blood (AL 4809) |
(3:13) |
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15
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Change
My Way Of Livin' (Raful Neal, Booga Music, BMI);
from Devil Child (Al4774) |
(4:46) |
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16
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Believe
In Yourself (Neal, Greenlee, Boylston & Iglauer,
Booga Music/Midnight Creeper Music/Perfect Heart Music, BMI);
from Hoodoo Moon (AL 4825) |
(3:30) |
ORIGINAL LINER NOTES
Kenny Neal has become the ambassador
of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana blues sound, taking the heritage of
his father, bluesman Raful Neal, and his father's famed musician
friends and speading it worldwide. Whether he's squeezing
the strings of his ancient, battered Telecaster, stretching out
on a funky bass riff, or blowing a chugging, reedy solo on harp,
Kenny's sound is unmistakably Baton Rouge. But he isn't just
recycling the songs of his mentors, like Slim Harpo (who gave Kenny
his first harp when the boy was three to stop him from crying),
Lazy Lester and his father, or the wild string-bending style of
the late Guitar Slim and the obscure but brilliant Rudolph Richard.
Rather, Kenny has absorbed the sounds of the masters he knew, added
the fire of fellow Baton Rouge-ite Buddy Guy (with whom Kenny toured
as a bass player while still a teenager) and strained it all through
a modern, young sensibility to create the Kenny Neal sound.
Live, Kenny is spontaneous and unstoppable.
He's even taken his talent to Broadway, where he starred in Lincoln
Center's production of Zora Neale Hurston's Mule Bone,
and won the Theatre World Award for Most Outstanding New Talent.
He's toured for the U.S. government as a blues ambassador across
Africa, and he and his tireless road band of various Neal brothers
and the great Chicago drummer Kennard Johnson have taken his incendiary
live show from Argentina to Europe to Japan (opening for B.B. King)
and practically every blues club in the U.S.
Whether he's laying into one of
his original songs (often co-written with Florida producer/bassist/horn
arranger Bob Greenlee) or updating a South Louisiana classic, Kenny's
musical gumbo, mixing swamp blues, a bit of modern funk, Chicago
blues and New Orleans rhythms, all cooked over a fire of Baton Rouge
roots, marks him as one of the true blues torchbearers of his generation.
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