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Roll & Tumble
Not Long for Day
Genres: Blues, Folk

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. All the Little Things You Do
2. Little Skirt
3. Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away
4. Million Year's Blues
5. My Melinda
6. Night Dance
7. Jinx Blues
8. Cypress Grove Blues
9. Cool Disposition
10. Lovin' Little Feeling
11. Last Night
12. Go Back to Your No Good Man
13. That's How She Loves Me
14. Let That Cool
15. Mama, 'taint Long for Day
16. Things Gonna Roll/Son's Blues

CD Details

All Artists: Roll & Tumble
Title: Not Long for Day
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Original Release Date: 2/1/2000
Release Date: 2/1/2000
Genres: Blues, Folk
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 669910501320, 783707209524

Synopsis

Album Description

The second CD from America's great ensemble country blues band has got critics and blues artists alike singing it's praises. A tight collection of blues numbers from Lonnie Johnson and John Lee Williamson to Son House, Skip James, and Blind Willie McTell. There are eight knockout originals here, too, all of them with a sound as timeless as wind through saltwater reeds.

CD Reviews

I keep this CD within reach at all times.

Adair Rowland | Amesbury, MA USA | 05/05/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I'd heard these guys were good, and the Boston and Portsmouth area gigs were easy enough to get to, but I figured I didn't know enough about blues to appreciate it; didn't need music that might remind me of my troubles. Boy, did I have it wrong! The NOT LONG FOR DAY cd release concert was a sellout, and made for instant and unanamious zealotry.At home, NOT LONG FOR DAY gets better and better, from the immediacy of the liner notes by Andre Dubus to the range of song and emotion that insinuates itself into your body and mind (even if you don't think you're listening, some body part is keeping time, and you're most likely smiling).The play order seems pitch perfect, but even on "shuffle" every cut stands up. This is the proof of "ensemble country blues" - it's all rhythm and quirky turnabouts with no voice or instrument hogging center. The title cut is shivery haunting, and nicely sandwiched between two original tunes, a barreling piano on "Let that Cool", and the authoritative optimism of the guitar on "Things Gonna Roll." Add in the sexy frustrations of "Little Skirt," and it's a legitmate ratio of new-real-thing to recovered, intriguingly reinterpreted treasures."