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Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne – An Old Rock On A Roll

12,00 7,26

Description

The missing link between legendary blues & boogie-woogie piano players (Champion Jack Dupree, Fats Domino…) and contemporary blues. Duke Robillard has produced the album and plays guitar on all the songs.

Track Listing:
1. Searching For My Baby - 4:10   2. Fantasy Meets Reality - 3:57   3. Heaven, Send Me An Angel - 4:58   4. Devil Woman - 4:50   5. An Old Rock On A Roll - 3:47   6. Don’t Pretend - 5:22   7. Run Little Joe - 3:06   8. Howlin' - 3:17   9. Wild Turkey 101 Proof - 4:05   10. Bring Back The Love - 5:59   11. Way Overdue - 4:11   12. Rocking Boogie Party - 2:24   13. Give Thanks - 3:56

Personnel:
Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne (piano, vocals) , Duke Robillard (guitar) , Brad Halle (bass) , Mark Teixeira (drums, percussion) , Doug James (baritone sax) , Sax Gordon (tenor sax) , Doug Woolverton (trumpet) , Carl Querfurth (trombone)

Reviews:

1. AllMusic - William Ruhlmann
Late blooming blues/boogie singer/pianist Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne was born in Spokane, Washington in 1944 and grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana, San Francisco, California, and Los Angeles, California, but he has been based in Vancouver, British Columbia since the early '80s, which helps explain his three-LP association with the Canadian Electro-Fi label and his switch to Alberta roots indie Stony Plain Records for An Old Rock on a Roll. Stony Plain assigned him to label blues producer/guitarist Duke Robillard, who handled this lively set, matching Wayne with bassist Brad Hallen, drummer Mark Teixeira, and a four-man horn section. All the songs are Wayne originals, which is to say, the pianist has come up with his own lyrics, although the tunes and arrangements have been familiar in blues and boogie circles for the better part of a century. Even the lyrics are in familiar form, asWayne bemoans the vicissitudes of a "Devil Woman" and explores the virtues of a life spent in bars. What matters, of course, is his powerful, heavily rhythmic playing, which has a lot of New Orleans in it, but predates rock & roll, despite the album title, and his professed love of Chuck Berry sidemanJohnny Johnson and Fats Domino. Nobody is credited on organ, but that must be Wayne, too, on the closing instrumental, "Give Thanks," with the piano overdubbed (or some fast switching). This is not an album to come to looking for something new, but rather it presents a reconfirmation of how much can still be made out of bluesy, barrelhouse piano playing by a master.

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