CARLOS del JUNCO: Just Your Fool (1999) Big Reed
Posted on July 5, 2008
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Kevin Breit Dobro, Guitar, Finger Snaps Carlos del Junco Band Harmonica, Main Performer, Finger Snaps, Vocals, Producer Denis Keldie Accordion, Finger Snaps Al Duffy Bass Recorded live at Grossman’s Tavern in “Muddy York”. The interplay between del Junco and Breit is musical magic, and all their solos mesmerize the listener with their musicality, intricacy, surprises, technical wizardry, and just plain funnnnn!
From the opening bend of Carlos’ harp on the first track of Just Your Fool, you know you’re in for something unique. This electrifying quartet cooks up a unique blend of blues, drawing on different traditions from swing, Chicago style blues, funky New Orleans and jazz. Kevin Breit (k.d.lang, Cassandra Wilson, Holly Cole) handles guitar duty with a quirky immediacy that helps raise the roof off this live session. Al Duffy on bass (Morgan Davis, Downchild Blues Band) and Geoff Arsenault on drums (Morgan Davis, Mary Jane Lammond) hold down a solid groove. This CD and Big Road Blues (see below) were the major influence for the Jazz Report to give del Junco the 1996 Blues Musician of the Year Award
WHAT CRITICS HAVE SAID ABOUT JUST YOUR FOOL
“Blues for the present. Respecting traditions by innovators such as Little Walter and following that example, continuing to push and expand the boundaries of possibility for the blues idiom, harmonicist, vocalist Carlos del Junco and his band establish with Just Your Fool their place in the vanguard of contemporary blues musicians. Check it out.”
David Bernard of CKLN - Blue Soul
“Harmonica virtuoso Carlos del Junco takes his instrument to new heights on this set of blues standards and originals.” Words and Music Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers Canada (SOCAN) “Whatever the genre in music, if you’re the best, let’s hear it!. When del Junco puts that harmonica to his mouth, you know there are few harmonica players anywhere past or present that can drag blues around like this gifted young man can.”
Eleanor Koldofsky The Listening Post
“It might seem pretty hard to make a harmonica sound sophisticated but del Junco pulls it off…del Junco has mapped out a fine discourse on blues harmonica playing and his handling of the harp leaves one breathless. This isn’t some cheapened modern-day blues rip-off, this is the low-down, my-dog-just-died-and-my-house-burned-to-the-ground type of blues that the true Delta masters would smile upon.”
Ron Rogers RPM Weekly
Tracks:
B Thing - Intro
Just Your Fool
Up The Line
Key To The Highway
Rocket 88
Forty Four
Walkin’ Blues
I Know Your Wig Is Gone
Quiet Whiskey
Just Your Fool (fast version)
B Thing - Outro
Harpin’ On A Riff
Jersey Bounce
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