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Charmed & Dangerous

Altered Five Blues Band

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Cat No: BPCD5169

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Release Date:  11 August 2017

Label:  Blind Pig Records / Altered Five

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  019148516922

Genres:  Blues  

  • Description

    For 15 years, Altered Five Blues Band has been winning audiences with a swaggering stomp of bruising, barrel house grit. According to Downbeat magazine, frontman Jeff Taylor “sings powerfully” and “ Jeff Schroedl’s live-wire guitar reaches the high bar of mixed invention and fluidity ”Blues Bytes magazine declares the group features “the funkiest rhythm section outside of Memphis.” For its fourth album, Charmed & Dangerous, the Milwaukee based quintet joins forces with Blind Pig Records, one of the world’s premiere blues labels. Produced by multi-Grammy winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Johnny Winter,etc.), and featuring guests on harmonica and backing vocals, the 13 tracks of original, contemporary blues deliver a fiery mix of deft songwriting and simmering musicianship Taylor’s smoldering baritone howls in the opening title track, and breaths fire-and brimstone on cuts like “On My Listto Quit” and “Three Alarm Desire”. The soul drenched “Eighth Wonder” and scrapyard shuffle “Mint Condition” showcase A5’s songcraft, while “Cookin” in Your Kitchen” and “If Your Heart Went Public” prove you can still rattle the rafters with pure, stone-cold slow blues. The album’s third track, “Three Forks,” was penned about legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson and features music, adapted with permission, from the classic cut “Crossroads.”

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Charmed & Dangerous
      • 2. Mint Condition
      • 3. Three Forks
      • 4. On My List to Quit
      • 5. If Your Heart Went Public
      • 6. Gonna Lose My Lady
      • 7. Cookin' in Your Kitchen
      • 8. She's Still Crazy
      • 9. Eighth Wonder
      • 10. Three Alarm Desire
      • 11. Small Talk
      • 12. Rotten
      • 13. Look What You Made Me Do