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An overlooked hero

Mitchell Lopate | Silverdale, WA | 03/09/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"It wasn't really true he couldn't sing if you consider that fellow Okie Leon Russell sounded the same way--and played with Jesse Ed. "Tulsa County" and "Washita Love Child" show some of his guitar dexterity, and "Every Night is Saturday Night" whips along at a breakneck pace behind Jerry Jumonville's tenor sax. Listen also for Clapton on guitar; Jesse Ed and he were onstage handling chores with George Harrison at the Bangladesh show.



When Jesse Ed does fall on vocals, it's wise to tread carefully (or listen painfully) to what he did with Van Morrison's "Crazy Love." But "White Line Fever" and "Sue Me, Sue You Blues" aren't so bad (he takes some of those "Statesboro Blues" riffs on the latter; Duane Allman was inspired by Jesse Ed's playing on that song for Taj Mahal), and he totally transforms the old California Gold Rush tune, "Oh Susannah" in a way that's amazingly effective. "Alcatraz" is a blistering comment on the Native American view of the controversy regarding the island prison.



Too bad he died in such a tragic way (drug overdose in a laundromat). He was one of the most unique studio men there was in his day."

Indianforever

Oneida Lakota | NE | 07/17/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I thought he sang pretty good, I had his album when I was a younger person and it was around the mid-seventies when it was all good, really all good. My best friend and I went to see the movie in Huntington Park, California - the Concert for BanglaDesh and WE SAW THE INDIAN GUY playing with George Harrison - course we just about fell over and remained fans of Mr. Davis forever."

Essence of the shelter sound

Robert Keith Gargus | philadelphia | 01/08/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Jesse Ed Davis album was one of the best sessions of what was the shelter records sound. Look on a good album from the early seventies and you'll likely find a shelter session man on it. I would buy an album sometimes just because Davis or Keltner were on it. This album is the best of the lot. Rolling Stone wrote a boxed review of this album(4/4 stars) There are some big names on this. Clapton, Russell, many more. The second album was ok. The highlight is a George Harrison song he wrote for Davis. The debut is one of my all time favorites."