Fruteland Jackson – Good As Your Last Dollar

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Track Listing:
1. Two Steps To Hell – 4:26   2. When Death Comes Creepin' In – 2:39   3. Good As Your Last Dollar – 3:57   4. Careless Love – 4:47   5. All The Dad I Had – 5:00   6. How's It Going? – 3:40   7. All Pain, No Gain – 2:53   8. Just Another Day – 4:53   9. Damaged Goods – 5:03   10. Love In Vain – 3:03   11. Peace In Hell – 3:28   12. Blues 2.0 (bonus track) – 5:26

Personnel:
Fruteland Jackson (vocals, acoustic guitar, National Resonator guitar, mandolin) , Harrison Kennedy (backing vocals on 2,4,6) , Jack de Keyzer (guitars, backing vocals) , Julian Fauth (piano, backing vocals) , Alec Fraser (bass, backing vocals) , Bucky Berger (drums, percusssion, backing vocals)

About the Songs:

I learned during the Great Recession, that no matter how long you’ve had a relationship with a utility or cable company, if you are late or unable to pay, you become only as Good As Your Last Dollar. Nothing more, nothing less. Living through the Great Recession was a time of Economic and Psychological depression. For some an unscripted test of survival. When you are nearly unable to provide for your personal needs and have no experience at being broke, you are living in an All Pain, No Gain environment. My grandmother’s plea was not to marry young with a single choice. My Grandmother foretold that me first love would be a Careless Love, a Love In Vain. She was right. If you’ve gone through a divorce,or are a child of divorce. It is this one man’s opinion that you are Damaged Goods.

It’s odd isn’t it ? that so many Blues songs are written about a spouse or lover breaking one’s heart, while so few Blues songs are written about our parents. Our mothers and fathers and our relation, or lack of relationship with them, does more to shape our personalities and thus our fates than just about any other relationship. He Was All The Daddy I Had.

When recently asked How’s It Going? I responded “I’ll tell you how it’s going, I’m a cancer survivor, who at the time of this writing continues to be cancer free. During my ordeal I made a rare request to my Maker to have Just Another Day. As he would have it, the days keep coming. I know that nothing lasts forever, and that in the end we shall all find Death Come Creepin’ In. Well, what you gonna do ? Just in case there is no Peace in Heaven, then let there be Peace in Hell. Blues 2.0 is re-released by popular demand.

Fruteland Jackson, Chicago 2019.

Reviews:

1. lahoradelblues.com - 2021.01.11 
Con aproximadamente treinta y ocho años de carrera a sus espaldas, Fruteland Jackson ha sido nominado cinco veces a los Blues Music Awards, además de haber ganado el premio Keeping Blues Alive que otorga anualmente la Blues Foundation. Aparte de su carrera como músico, Fruteland participa activamente en los programas Blues In The Schools que pretenden acercar y difundir el blues entre los jóvenes estudiantes. Musicalmente hablando Jackson creció en Chicago, actuando regularmente en los clubs de la ciudad, además de acompañar en muchas ocasiones a artistas como Honeyboy Edwards, Robert Lockwood Jr. o Homesick James con los que le unía una buena amistad. Jackson es un verdadero ‘storyteller’, un historiador que transmite la cultura del blues de forma oral, no solamente interpretando los viejos standards del blues, sino también componiendo sus propias canciones. Este nuevo trabajo ha sido publicado por la compañía discográfica canadiense Electro-Fi, de la que precisamente Fruteland Jackson fue el primer artista acústico en grabar para este sello hace ya bastantes años. El álbum contiene doce maravillosas canciones interpretadas en el más puro y genuino estilo de blues tradicional, lo que nos permite apreciar en toda su intensidad y vehemencia la calidad  y enorme personalidad de este bluesman tan auténtico y especialmente honesto. MUY BUENO. 

With a musical career of about thirty-eight years long, Fruteland Jackson has been five times nominated to the Blues Music Awards and he has also been honored by The Blues Foundation with the Keeping The Blues Alive award. Apart from his career as a musician, Fruteland actively participates in the Blues In The Schools programs, which aim is to introduce and bring blues closer to young students. Musically speaking, Jackson grew up in Chicago, performing regularly in most of the city clubs, also backing regularly musicians and good friends like Honeyboy Edwards, Robert Lockwood Jr. or Homesick James. Jackson shows himself as a real storyteller, a historian who orally brings blues culture to the audience, not only performing old blues standards but also writing his own songs. This new recording has been published by Electro-Fi, a Canadian record label where Fruteland Jackson was its first acoustic artist to record many years ago. The album includes twelve wonderful songs performed in the most genuine traditional blues style, which allows us to appreciate the deep passion, the undeniable quality and the enormous personality of this amazing and especially honest bluesman. GREAT.

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