Search - Jimmy Hall & Muscle Shoals Rhythm Collective :: Build Your Own Fire

Jimmy Yes Ma'm!!

Mark G. Miller | 05/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Opening track "Still Want To Be Your Man" has 2 of the greatest R&B singers in a duet. Props to Delbert McClinton. Best R&B duet I've heard in a long time. "Salty" is my favorite track. Vintage Jimmy singing a soulful ballad with Kira Small adding a sweet not salty ending. "Here I Am" is just a straight forward, excellent R&B tune. Yes Ma'm! "Poor old Me, "Coming After You" and "Watchdog" remind me of Jimmy's solo "Rendezvous with the Blues" excellent cd in the 90s. Wish Sony would release his other solo cds from the late 80's and early 90's. "Cover Me" is a sweet soulful ballad that is another highlight of this cd. "Build Your Own Fire" is straight ahead soulful blues with great guitar work. "It's All Wrong" is another great soulful ballad that reminds me of early Wet Willie ballad tunes. "What will I Do Without You" has a gospel blues feel to it. "I Found a True Love" is the least bluesy song, just one to continue to show off Jimmy's awesome voice. The bonus tracks are very good. Not too much different in my book, but another "Salty" is never wrong.

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Mercy , mercy me

James F. Conner II | Gainesville, FL United States | 05/11/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Lord have mercy, Jimmy Hall sure can sing. Everytime I have heard him in performance or via recording, I have been blown away. Once, in a Gainesville FL bar on a Monday night, I was lucky enough to hear him with the Nighthawks on a slow night. By the evening's end, the place was sweating like a thousand juke joints. The paint was peeling off the walls! Jimmy and the boys were hotter than University Avenue on a July noon. Buy anything by Jimmy Hall. Now! Trust me."

YOWZAH!!

Baddstuff | astoria, ny United States | 11/27/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"oh man oh man, this boy is the real deal. What a voice! I just love the way Jimmy wraps his voice around a song. Simply superb. This is a veteran performer who knows how to work his magic on a song. Oh yeah, the material here isn't bad either, ha ha! Just get this already, and get his Rendezvous With The Blues disc as well and listen to a pro at work.

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