BOB BROZMAN
''''A TRUCKLOAD OF BLUES''''
1992
54:37
1/We Gonna Move/3:12
2/Worryin' the Blues Away
Bob Brozman/3:37
3/Let's Get It. Stomp
Bob Brozman/2:24
4/Scene of the Crime
Bob Brozman / Catherine MacDuffee/2:25
5/Old Dog Blues
Bob Brozman/4:36
6/Never Hit the Same Place Twice
Bob Brozman / Catherine MacDuffee/2:38
7/I Can't Hardly Get Along
Bob Brozman / Traditional/3:27
8/Stack O Lee Aloha/2:24
9/Get Your Ashes Hauled
Catherine MacDuffee / Traditional/3:52
10/You Set the Market
Bob Brozman / Catherine MacDuffee/2:16
11/One of Us Was Wrong
Bob Brozman / Catherine MacDuffee/4:09
12/Backwards Blues
Bob Brozman/3:11
13/Yearning and Blue
Junie C. Cobb / Allan Dodge/3:07
14/Don't Laugh at Me
Howlin' Wolf/2:55
15/Kitchen Man
Andy Razaf/3:47
16/Just as Well to Let Her Go/2:21
17/Come On in My Kitchen
Robert Johnson/4:16
M. Brancho /Handclapping, Vocals (Background)
Fly Brooks /Bass (Electric)
Bob Brozman /Drums (Snare), Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Hawaiian Guitar, Mandolin, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Vocals
Loralee Christensen /Vocals (Background)
Angelina Grimshaw /Handclapping
J.C. Grimshaw /Handclapping
Piper Heisig /Bass
Paul Hostetter /Bass
Catherine MacDuffee /Handclapping
Bobby Ryken /Drums
Joe Smith III /Trumpet
John Vernazza /Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Rhythm)
George Winston /Guest Artist, Piano
REVIEW
by Ron Wynn
Guitarist Bob Brozman's long-awaited all-blues album A Truckload of Blues covers similar territory as others who have turned in heartfelt treatments of traditional and Delta blues tunes. But the difference between Brozman and many of his predecessors is that he has fun doing these songs. He's wise enough to understand that there are only so many ways one can sing "Old Dog Blues" or "Kitchen Man," and that many of the great veterans really enjoyed what they sang. Brozman is also a technical marvel, particularly on bottleneck. But just as his vocals aren't simply replications, he doesn't merely whip out licks and display flash; there's thought in the soloing, creativity in the riffs and plenty of heart in the grooves. Brozman emerges with one of the better and more memorable repertory projects, one that seems more like his take on traditional blues rather than one more museum piece.
BIOGRAPHY
by Richard Skelly
Multi-instrumentalist, historian, and educator Bob Brozman was born in New York on March 8, 1954. His uncle, Barney Josephson, was a prominent club owner who ran Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, one of the first places in New York, or anywhere, where black and white musicians played on-stage together.
Brozman studied music and ethnomusicology at Washington University in St. Louis. Brozman became not only a master of classic blues from the '20s and '30s, but also a competent performer of early jazz and ragtime. In the mid-'70s while still in college, he would make trips down South to find, interview, and play with the older blues artists from the 1920s and '30s whom he admired.
Brozman recorded several fine albums in the early and mid-'80s for the Kicking Mule and Rounder labels, and for students of early, vintage blues and vintage guitar aficionados, they're well worth looking for. In 1985, he recorded Hello Central...Give Me Dr. Jazz for the Massachusetts-based Rounder label and followed up in 1988 with Devil's Slide. Truckload of Blues appeared on Rounder in 1992.
Brozman has also collaborated on album projects with a number of musicians from around the world, including the Tau Moe Family (Remembering the Songs of Our Youth), Debashish Bhattacharya (Mahima ), René Lacaille (DigDig), Takashi Hirayasu (Jin Jin and Nankuru Naisa), Djeli Moussa Diawara (Ocean Blues), Led Kaapana (In the Saddle), David Grisman (Tone Poems III), Jeff Lang (Rolling Through This World), Woody Mann ( Get Together), and Cyril Pahinui (Four Hands Sweet & Hot). He has kept busy as a solo act as well, releasing Live Now, Metric Time, and Blues Reflex early in the new millennium.
Brozman traveled to Papua New Guinea in 2003 and 2004 to record and be filmed with local string bands, and the resulting CD/DVD set, Songs of the Volcano, appeared in 2005. Continuing to show off his versatility in performing compositions influenced by varying cultures, he released two albums in 2007, Lumiere and Post-Industrial Blues.
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''''A TRUCKLOAD OF BLUES''''
1992
54:37
1/We Gonna Move/3:12
2/Worryin' the Blues Away
Bob Brozman/3:37
3/Let's Get It. Stomp
Bob Brozman/2:24
4/Scene of the Crime
Bob Brozman / Catherine MacDuffee/2:25
5/Old Dog Blues
Bob Brozman/4:36
6/Never Hit the Same Place Twice
Bob Brozman / Catherine MacDuffee/2:38
7/I Can't Hardly Get Along
Bob Brozman / Traditional/3:27
8/Stack O Lee Aloha/2:24
9/Get Your Ashes Hauled
Catherine MacDuffee / Traditional/3:52
10/You Set the Market
Bob Brozman / Catherine MacDuffee/2:16
11/One of Us Was Wrong
Bob Brozman / Catherine MacDuffee/4:09
12/Backwards Blues
Bob Brozman/3:11
13/Yearning and Blue
Junie C. Cobb / Allan Dodge/3:07
14/Don't Laugh at Me
Howlin' Wolf/2:55
15/Kitchen Man
Andy Razaf/3:47
16/Just as Well to Let Her Go/2:21
17/Come On in My Kitchen
Robert Johnson/4:16
M. Brancho /Handclapping, Vocals (Background)
Fly Brooks /Bass (Electric)
Bob Brozman /Drums (Snare), Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Hawaiian Guitar, Mandolin, Speech/Speaker/Speaking Part, Vocals
Loralee Christensen /Vocals (Background)
Angelina Grimshaw /Handclapping
J.C. Grimshaw /Handclapping
Piper Heisig /Bass
Paul Hostetter /Bass
Catherine MacDuffee /Handclapping
Bobby Ryken /Drums
Joe Smith III /Trumpet
John Vernazza /Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Rhythm)
George Winston /Guest Artist, Piano
REVIEW
by Ron Wynn
Guitarist Bob Brozman's long-awaited all-blues album A Truckload of Blues covers similar territory as others who have turned in heartfelt treatments of traditional and Delta blues tunes. But the difference between Brozman and many of his predecessors is that he has fun doing these songs. He's wise enough to understand that there are only so many ways one can sing "Old Dog Blues" or "Kitchen Man," and that many of the great veterans really enjoyed what they sang. Brozman is also a technical marvel, particularly on bottleneck. But just as his vocals aren't simply replications, he doesn't merely whip out licks and display flash; there's thought in the soloing, creativity in the riffs and plenty of heart in the grooves. Brozman emerges with one of the better and more memorable repertory projects, one that seems more like his take on traditional blues rather than one more museum piece.
BIOGRAPHY
by Richard Skelly
Multi-instrumentalist, historian, and educator Bob Brozman was born in New York on March 8, 1954. His uncle, Barney Josephson, was a prominent club owner who ran Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, one of the first places in New York, or anywhere, where black and white musicians played on-stage together.
Brozman studied music and ethnomusicology at Washington University in St. Louis. Brozman became not only a master of classic blues from the '20s and '30s, but also a competent performer of early jazz and ragtime. In the mid-'70s while still in college, he would make trips down South to find, interview, and play with the older blues artists from the 1920s and '30s whom he admired.
Brozman recorded several fine albums in the early and mid-'80s for the Kicking Mule and Rounder labels, and for students of early, vintage blues and vintage guitar aficionados, they're well worth looking for. In 1985, he recorded Hello Central...Give Me Dr. Jazz for the Massachusetts-based Rounder label and followed up in 1988 with Devil's Slide. Truckload of Blues appeared on Rounder in 1992.
Brozman has also collaborated on album projects with a number of musicians from around the world, including the Tau Moe Family (Remembering the Songs of Our Youth), Debashish Bhattacharya (Mahima ), René Lacaille (DigDig), Takashi Hirayasu (Jin Jin and Nankuru Naisa), Djeli Moussa Diawara (Ocean Blues), Led Kaapana (In the Saddle), David Grisman (Tone Poems III), Jeff Lang (Rolling Through This World), Woody Mann ( Get Together), and Cyril Pahinui (Four Hands Sweet & Hot). He has kept busy as a solo act as well, releasing Live Now, Metric Time, and Blues Reflex early in the new millennium.
Brozman traveled to Papua New Guinea in 2003 and 2004 to record and be filmed with local string bands, and the resulting CD/DVD set, Songs of the Volcano, appeared in 2005. Continuing to show off his versatility in performing compositions influenced by varying cultures, he released two albums in 2007, Lumiere and Post-Industrial Blues.
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