Martin Simpson - Righteousness and Humidity
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Artist: Martin SimpsonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-09-09
Music Label: Red House
Soundtracks:
- John Hardy
- Horn Island
- I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
- Easy Money
- Payday
- This World Is A Trouble And A Trial
- Ghost In The Pines
- The Coo Coo Bird
- Love Never Dies
- Some Dark Holler
- Rico
- Georgie
- Wild Bill Jones
- The Devil's Partiality
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
- The Last Shot Got Him
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One of today's finest slide guitarists and interpreters of traditional music, Martin Simpson continues to grow, inspire, and delight with his razor-sharp picking and grainy voice. On this album -- the most sonically diverse of his career -- Simpson swings effortlessly from the crisp, modal twang of his native British Isles to the haunting cry of Delta blues and low-key swagger of New Orleans funk. His timbral palette is huge: In addition to acoustic and electric guitars, he plays 5-string banjo, ukulele, lap steel, and percussion. Sometimes flying solo, but most often backed by various American and British players (including bassist Rick Kemp of Steeleye Span, and guitarist Dave Malone and bassist Reggie Scanlan of the Big Easy's legendary Radiators), Simpson delivers chimey ragtime counterpoint, rippling close-interval melodies, and snarling slide riffs with robust tone and flawless intonation. Whether he's putting a fresh twist on classics like "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and "John Hardy" or digging into vibey originals, Simpson never flaunts his monster chops. Instead, he seduces with mysterious 6-string textures and poignant tales of lost love and drunken murder. Bewitching sounds from a 21st-century troubadour.
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Martin Simpson returns with his first US release in 6 years - a stunning collection of tunes and songs he culled over the years he spent living and traveling in the American South. Bearing the common themes of love, murder and/or religion, the music inspired a title based on a comment he once heard in Nashville, "Righteousness and humidity - that's a dangerous combination!" Recorded in New Orleans and England with RICK KEMP of STEELEYE SPAN and REGGIE SCANLON & DAVE MALONE of the RADIATORS!Folk Music CDs
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