BOBBY WHITLOCK AND COCO CARMEL
''CARNIVAL (LIVE IN AUSTIN)''
JUNE 25 2013
58:03
1. Got to Get Better/6:00
2. Anyday/6:24
3. Why Does Love Got to Be so Sad?/6:45
4. Nobody Knows/4:06
5. Keep On Growing/4:55
6. River of Life/4:44
7. Devil Blues/3:59
8. It's Not the End of the World/4:19
9. Little Wing/5:23
10. John the Revelator/5:01
11. Tell the Truth/6:33
Album Notes
By CDBaby
Bobby Whitlock has not lost anything since his early days with Derek & The Dominos, in fact he has gained much more. Bobby's voice is formidable as ever and his songwriting skills have not waned. Together with his wife and musical partner CoCo Carmel, they sing and play their hearts out in every performance and obviously enjoy every moment of it.
CoCo is right there side by side singing Bobby's old parts and playing guitar to the Domino hits bringing her own unique style to this duo. Sliding in with amazing ease on sax playing notes unheard of, she is rock solid.
Many of the favorite songs of Derek and the Dominos are included on this gem not to mention a couple of surprises like Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" and Eric's own "Got to Get Better", are simply fantastic and leave you wanting more.
Then there are several tracks from their recent "Esoteric" record, songs both Bobby and CoCo co -wrote that really hold up and go along with the Domino songs, Devil Blues and John The Revelator and CoCo's Nobody Knows to name a few.
The band on this record consists of Jeff Plankenhorn on lead guitar, Brannen Temple on Drums and Jimmy Pettit on bass, this band is rocking hard on every track.
The record also introduces legendary Rob Fraboni on mastering (producer of Bob Dylan, The Last Waltz,The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Bonnie Raitt and more ).
This is great live album not to be missed. It surely will not disappoint.
BIOGRAPHY
by Rob Caldwell
Though he's best known as a member of the short-lived but groundbreaking group Derek and the Dominoes with Eric Clapton, Whitlock has had a very impressive musical career. Raised in Arkansas and Memphis, by the time he was a teenager he was playing on many of the sessions at the legendary Stax Studios and was in fact the first white artist signed to Stax Records. With a soulful voice soaked in gospel, R&B, and blues and accomplished keyboard skills, it was only a matter of time before the limelight found him.
Upon seeing him perform in a Memphis Club, he was asked by Delaney & Bonnie to join their band. Whitlock began a friendship with Eric Clapton when Delaney & Bonnie and Friends toured with him and would soon be part of Clapton's Derek and the Dominoes project. Co-writing many of the songs and playing and singing on most (that's him doing the lead vocal on his own "Thorn Tree in the Garden"), Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs was almost as much a Whitlock album as it was a Clapton album. With the same band, he played on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and was also an uncredited musician on the Rolling Stones' influential Exile on Main Street a few years later.
The 1970s also saw him release four expressive solo albums. The first one, self titled, was released in 1972 and is the best of the bunch. Raw Velvet, while a little more uneven than the first, featured some of Duanne Allman's most heartbreaking and breathtaking slide playing (uncredited due to contractual legalities) on the track "Dearest I Wonder," recorded shortly before he died. After his 1976 album Rock Your Sox Off, Whitlock layed low for most of the '80s and '90s, living on a farm in Mississippi and doing some session work (though not even much of that). In 1999, he finally returned with the aptly titled It's About Time.
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''CARNIVAL (LIVE IN AUSTIN)''
JUNE 25 2013
58:03
1. Got to Get Better/6:00
2. Anyday/6:24
3. Why Does Love Got to Be so Sad?/6:45
4. Nobody Knows/4:06
5. Keep On Growing/4:55
6. River of Life/4:44
7. Devil Blues/3:59
8. It's Not the End of the World/4:19
9. Little Wing/5:23
10. John the Revelator/5:01
11. Tell the Truth/6:33
Album Notes
By CDBaby
Bobby Whitlock has not lost anything since his early days with Derek & The Dominos, in fact he has gained much more. Bobby's voice is formidable as ever and his songwriting skills have not waned. Together with his wife and musical partner CoCo Carmel, they sing and play their hearts out in every performance and obviously enjoy every moment of it.
CoCo is right there side by side singing Bobby's old parts and playing guitar to the Domino hits bringing her own unique style to this duo. Sliding in with amazing ease on sax playing notes unheard of, she is rock solid.
Many of the favorite songs of Derek and the Dominos are included on this gem not to mention a couple of surprises like Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" and Eric's own "Got to Get Better", are simply fantastic and leave you wanting more.
Then there are several tracks from their recent "Esoteric" record, songs both Bobby and CoCo co -wrote that really hold up and go along with the Domino songs, Devil Blues and John The Revelator and CoCo's Nobody Knows to name a few.
The band on this record consists of Jeff Plankenhorn on lead guitar, Brannen Temple on Drums and Jimmy Pettit on bass, this band is rocking hard on every track.
The record also introduces legendary Rob Fraboni on mastering (producer of Bob Dylan, The Last Waltz,The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Bonnie Raitt and more ).
This is great live album not to be missed. It surely will not disappoint.
BIOGRAPHY
by Rob Caldwell
Though he's best known as a member of the short-lived but groundbreaking group Derek and the Dominoes with Eric Clapton, Whitlock has had a very impressive musical career. Raised in Arkansas and Memphis, by the time he was a teenager he was playing on many of the sessions at the legendary Stax Studios and was in fact the first white artist signed to Stax Records. With a soulful voice soaked in gospel, R&B, and blues and accomplished keyboard skills, it was only a matter of time before the limelight found him.
Upon seeing him perform in a Memphis Club, he was asked by Delaney & Bonnie to join their band. Whitlock began a friendship with Eric Clapton when Delaney & Bonnie and Friends toured with him and would soon be part of Clapton's Derek and the Dominoes project. Co-writing many of the songs and playing and singing on most (that's him doing the lead vocal on his own "Thorn Tree in the Garden"), Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs was almost as much a Whitlock album as it was a Clapton album. With the same band, he played on George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and was also an uncredited musician on the Rolling Stones' influential Exile on Main Street a few years later.
The 1970s also saw him release four expressive solo albums. The first one, self titled, was released in 1972 and is the best of the bunch. Raw Velvet, while a little more uneven than the first, featured some of Duanne Allman's most heartbreaking and breathtaking slide playing (uncredited due to contractual legalities) on the track "Dearest I Wonder," recorded shortly before he died. After his 1976 album Rock Your Sox Off, Whitlock layed low for most of the '80s and '90s, living on a farm in Mississippi and doing some session work (though not even much of that). In 1999, he finally returned with the aptly titled It's About Time.
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