John Mayall-The Sun Is Shining Down-CD-FLAC-2022-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : John Mayall                                       
   Album       : The Sun Is Shining Down                           
    Label       : Forty Below Records                                
    Genre       : Blues                                              
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2022-01-28                                         
   Quality     : 894 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 306.45 MB                                          
     Time        : 45:44 min                                          
    Url         : http://allmusic.com/album/release/the-sun-is-shin 
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  1.  Hungry And Ready (Feat. Melvin Taylor)                         5:00 
  2.  Can't Take No More (Feat. Marcus King)                         3:45 
  3.  I'm As Good As Gone Feat. Buddy Miller                         4:23 
  4.  Got To Find A Better Way (Feat. Scarlet Rivera)                5:00 
  5.  Chills And Thrills (Feat. Mike Campbell)                       5:20 
  6.  One Special Lady (Feat. Jake Shimabukuro)                      4:17 
  7.  A Quitter Never Wins                                           4:33 
  8.  Deep Blue Sea (Feat. Scarlet Rivera)                           4:25 
  9.  Driving Wheel (Feat. Melvin Taylor)                            3:41 
  10. The Sun Is Shining Down (Feat. Carolyn Wonderland)             5:20 
     Just after his 88th birthday in 2021, John Mayall, the             
     long-reigning king of British blues, announced he was hanging up   
     his road shoes. He also noted that he would continue to record     
     and felt excited by the work he was doing. The Sun Is Shining      
     Down (album number 60) was completed just before that              
     announcement. As evidenced here, his ability to write and record   
     vital modern blues with excellent musicians continues unabated.    
     These ten tracks showcase a cast of invited all-star guests; most  
     are guitar slingers -- after all, this is the man who gave us      
     Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taylor, and countless others. His  
     own band comprises guitarist Carolyn Wonderland, bassist Greg      
     Rzab, drummer Jay Davenport, and a horn section for the            
     proceedings. Mayall sings, plays piano, Wurlitzer, Hammond B-3,    
     and harmonica.                                                     
     Opener "Hungry and Ready" is a swinging Chicago blues with         
     Mississippi-born bluesman Melvin Taylor playing lead guitar atop   
     hard-grooving horns. Mayall, in excellent voice, still plays a     
     deft, wailing harmonica. Taylor's solo is mean and winding. South  
     Carolina blues hero Marcus King takes the lead chair for "Can't    
     Take No More," a funky roadhouse blues driven by B-3 and a         
     cracking drum kit. King lays down layer after layer of tasty       
     guitar fills. Former Heartbreaker and current Fleetwood Mac        
     axeman Mike Campbell guests on Bernard Allison's "Chills and       
     Thrills," offering his funky, yet precise economical style as the  
     perfect foil for Mayall's voice and evil B-3. Buddy Miller adds a  
     nasty blues tone and grimy solo to "I'm as Good as Gone."          
     Violinist Scarlet Rivera accompanies the band on "Deep Blue Sea."  
     Her sweeping fills and labyrinthine solo expand the tune's frame   
     to the breaking point, and Mayall's piano work is exemplary,       
     coming right out of the stride and NOLA traditions, adding color   
     and texture with a Wurlitzer. Ukulele innovator Jake Shimabukuro   
     trades tasty, snarling lines with Wonderland on "One Special       
     Lady" (a jump blues) as Mayall's B-3 prods the band to support     
     them. Taylor tears it up again on a cover of Roosevelt Sykes'      
     "Driving Wheel." His stinging fills punctuate each sung line as    
     the horns stroll and roil underneath. Wonderland shines as a       
     soloist on the closing title track. Her sinister, steamy blues,    
     razor-wire fills, and accents bubble and bump atmospherically      
     around and under Mayall's organ and moaning vocal while the band   
     shuffles, swells, and vamps all around them. Wonderland doesn't    
     merely trade lines with Mayall, she offers a tight, soulful solo   
     and plays call-and-response with herself, offering tight lines     
     and smoky phrases. Hopefully, life goes according to plan and      
     Mayall gets to deliver many more recordings before he's done,      
     because The Sun Is Shining Down sounds hungry and vital. Mayall    
     delivers these rough-and-ready blues like a champ.                 

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26M	02-john_mayall-cant_take_no_more_(feat._marcus_king).flac
29M	03-john_mayall-im_as_good_as_gone_feat._buddy_miller.flac
31M	04-john_mayall-got_to_find_a_better_way_(feat._scarlet_rivera).flac
35M	05-john_mayall-chills_and_thrills_(feat._mike_campbell).flac
29M	06-john_mayall-one_special_lady_(feat._jake_shimabukuro).flac
28M	07-john_mayall-a_quitter_never_wins.flac
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31M	10-john_mayall-the_sun_is_shining_down_(feat._carolyn_wonderland).flac
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