Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Kenny Neal, Noel Neal, Johnson, Demott Title: What You Got Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Telarc Original Release Date: 4/25/2000 Release Date: 4/25/2000 Genres: Blues, Pop Styles: Chicago Blues, Contemporary Blues, Electric Blues, Modern Blues Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 089408346729 |
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Recorded after a break in touring that followed Kenny Neal's contribution to Homesick for the Road, What You Got finds the Louisiana multi-instrumentalist fully recharged, with a fresh, mature outlook. This album is the be... more » |
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Amazon.com Recorded after a break in touring that followed Kenny Neal's contribution to Homesick for the Road, What You Got finds the Louisiana multi-instrumentalist fully recharged, with a fresh, mature outlook. This album is the best of both worlds: while it has the more restrained feel of his most recent solo outing, Blues Fallin' Down Like Rain, it's also a deeper piece of work, making up in emotional depth what it lacks in flash. Yet Neal can still riff with the best of them, as the uptempo instrumental "Neal and Pray" makes clear. He can also lay back and let the song speak for itself, as on "Little Brother (Make a Way)" and "Blues Ain't Nothing But a Good Man Feeling Bad." One gets the sense with What You Got that Neal has struck a balance between gentleness and passion; the result flows as easily as a river. --Genevieve Williams Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsStill one of the greatest contemporary bluesmen Docendo Discimus | Vita scholae | 06/23/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "Kenny Neal's second album for Telarc records, and his seventh record in 13 years, is a really solid collection of blues and soul. The horn section which some people have cited as a reason for not liking Kenny's brand of blues is gone, although saxist Marshall DeMott does pop up once or twice, and the tight four-man combo lay down a series of supple grooves anchored by drummer Kennard Johnson and Kenny's brother Noel Neal on bass. Kenny Neal himself handles all guitars and vocals, and plays sizzling harmonica on two of the album's best songs, "Love On Borrowed Time" and the wonderful, swinging R&B of "Dèja Vu". And he has written or co-written nine of these twelve songs, including the title track, a wonderful slow soul number which grows on me every time I listen to it. I'm not usually big on organs, but organist/pianist Anthony Geraci's instrument has a wonderful smooth tone which fits the overall mood of the album like a glove. The best of Neal's Alligator albums, like "Walking On Fire" and "Hoodoo Man", had a bit more variation in mood and tempo, and that is pretty much the only complaint I have against this album...there is a bit too much laid-back soul blues here, and a few more up-tempo numbers would have been nice. But this is still really good soul-blues. "What You Got" is stronger and more original than Neal's first record for Telarc, "Blues Fallin' Down Like Rain", and Neal's rendition of "Little Brother" is terrific, a showcase for his rough but subtly nuanced voice. The originals "I Smell Smoke" and "You've Been Spying On Me" are no less great...you can't go wrong with any of Kenny Neal's albums, really, and this one is certainly no exception." WHAT YOU GOT ? howard lee teitel | GLENDALE, NEW YORK United States | 06/26/2000 (4 out of 5 stars) "WHAT YOU GOT IS A MIX A BLUES,BALLARDS AND SOME ROCKIN BLUES. CD STARTS WITH A FINE NUMBER CALLED I SMELL SMOKE W/ SOME FINE GUITAR PLAYING TO THE BLUES ARE NOTHING BUT A GOOD MAN FEELING BAD. IF YOU ENJOY DIFFERENT TYPES ARE BLUES ON ONE CD THIUS IS THE CD FOR YOU"
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