James Cotton ~ Live & On The Move / High Energy / 100% Cotton 3CD 2018 ••NEW••

Description: James Cotton Band Live & On The Move (1976) High Energy (1975) 100% Cotton (1974) 3CD SET 3 Discs ~ 3 Albums BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED Floating World Records FLOATD6331 UPC | 0805772633124 1976, 1975, 1974, 2018 TRACK LISTING DISC 1 Live And On The Move (1976) 01. Cotton Boogie 02. One More Mile 03. All Walks Of Life 04. Born In Missouri 05. Flip Flop & Fly 06. Mojo 07. Rocket 88 08. Goodbye My Lady 09. I Don't Know 10. Caldonia 11. Boogie Thing 12. Good Morning Lil' Schoool Girl 13. Oh Baby You Don't Have To Go 14. Help Me 15. Fannie Mae 16. Hot 'N Cold 17. Teeny Weeny Bit 18. Blow Wind Blow 19. How Long Can A Fool Go Wrong 20. Next Time You See Me DISC 2 High Energy (1975) 01. Hot 'N' Cold 02. Chicken Heads 03. Hard Time Blues 04. I Got A Feeling 05. Weather Report (The Weatherman Said) 06. Rock 'n' Roll Music (Ain't Nothing New) 07. Fannie Mae 08. Caldonia 09. James' Theme 10. Keep Cooking Mama DISC 3 100% Cotton (1974) 01. Boogie Thing 02. One More Mile 03. All Walks Of Life 04. Creeper Creeps Again 05. Rocket 88 06. How Long Can A Fool Go Wrong 07. I Don't Know 08. Burner 09. 'Fatuation 10. Fever ꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷꟷ The late James Cotton (born July 1st 1935, died March 16th 2017) was one of the finest exponents of the Blues harmonica. In a lengthy career, he not only played and recorded with many of the true greats of The Blues, he also fronted his own bands and built up a considerable body of his own recorded work — including the three albums featured here, namely 100% Cotton (1974), High Energy (1975) and Live & On The Move (1976), all recorded for the Buddah Records label. Cotton was born into a sharecropping family in Tunica, Mississippi - his was the classic Bluesmans experience of hard field work, with music as a release from the working grind - by the age of nine, he was a working musician. Having developed his talent under the tutelage of Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), as he grew up, he toured with Williamson and Howlin’ Wolf, and recorded for the legendary Sun Records label in 1953, before spending twelve years touring and recording with Muddy Waters (starting at the age of twenty). Cotton graced Waters’ famous 1960 At Newport album, released on the Chess Records label, which featured the definitive version of I Got My Mojo Working, one of the most influential recordings in the Chicago Blues canon, which hugely inspired musicians such as Charlie Musselwhite, Paul Butterfield, as well as young British acolytes like The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Paul Jones (Manfred Mann), The Kinks and scores of other blueswailing young hopefuls. After the Sun Records recordings in 1953, Cotton was not to record under his own name until the mid-1960s. In 1966, he formed the James Cotton Band, and he put all the years of experience as a sideman, watching and learning from the greats, into fronting his combo. He was an incredibly forceful player, often sucking the reeds from his harmonica with the sheer force of his playing! Cotton was in the lucky position of being able to take advantage of the revival of interest in The Blues in the late 1960s, and shared bills with bands such as The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Led Zeppelin, BB King, Santana, Steve Miller, Freddie King and many others. On record, he cut three albums for Verve, and one for Vanguard before signing to the Buddah Records label in the early seventies. His band at the time featured the superb guitarist Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy, who would later he a part of the Blues Brothers Band from the movie of the same name, and the first of Cottons Buddah recordings, 100% Cotton, finds both band leader an backing combo in magisterial form. 100% Cotton comprises ten tracks, including three covers including the Jackie Brenston penned Rocket 88, which harks back to Cottons early recording days on the Sun Records label, the song being credited as one of the very first rock and roll' recordings. Cotton and co - especially guitarist Murphy - tear through the fabric of the song with fire and obvious glee. Also covered is the old Peggy Lee chestnut, Fever, and I Don’t Know, by the great Wille Mabon. Cotton supplies gutsy vocals and his savage harmonica style, aided and abetted by Matt Murphy and rhe punchy rhythm section of bassist Charles Calmese and drummer Kenny Johnson. Next up, for 1976 s High Energy, Cotton was put under the production auspices of the New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint. Toussaint was the King of New Orleans back then; he’d produced great records such as Dr John’s ‘Right Place, Wrong Time’, and ‘Lady Marmalade’ for Labelle, as well as a succession of superb New Orleans Funk recordings for The Meters. Back in the sixties, of course, he’d penned and produced hits for Lee Dorsey, Ernie K-Doe, Irma Thomas amongst many others. What Toussaint brings to Cotton’s band is some tight- but- loose arrangements, and an altogether more New Orleans seventies Funk style, the approach is a very good fit for Cotton; there’s still some typically ferocious harmonica work, and gritty vocals, but the precision of the arrangements add a whole new aspect to Cotton’s recorded work. ‘I Got A Feelin” is a Cotton original, and features a fine, funky vocal lead. The rhythm section here is so tight and on the money, with bass player Charles Calmese really locking in with drummer Kenny Johnson superbly. The Weatherman Said is another, metronomically insistent funk workout. The Toussaint arrangements and crisp production values refresh the typically febrile Cotton approach. The third set here, Live & On The Move, from 1976, was originally a double live set, and Cotton’s final release for Buddah. Throughout, the mood is celebratory, and Cotton gets to show his incredible stylistic range, incorporating Jump Jive, boogie-woogie and rhythm and blues within his more usual Blues stylings. It’s a treat for lovers of the blues harmonica. After leaving Buddah, Cotton hooked up with is old boss Muddy Waters for a series of albums produced by Johnny Winter, beginning with the acclaimed Hard Again set in 1977. He also lent his harmonica skills to recordings by Koko Taylor, Steve Miller, Memphis Slim, Hubert Sumlin and many others. He signed with the Alligator Records label in 1984, releasing two solo albums and the classic Harp Attack with Junior Wells, Carey Bell and Billy Branch. He won a Grammy Award in 1996 for his Verve Records album Deep In The Blues, and recorded four albums for the Telare Records label before returning to Alligator in 2010. His most recent recording was 2013’s Grammy Award nominated Cotton Mouth Man. In June 2010, Cotton was honoured by New York’s Lincoln Centre, where his friends Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Taj Mahal, Shemeika Copeland and others paid tribute to him in an all-star concert. Throughout his career, James Cotton was a performer who gave his heart and soul to whatever musical project he involved himself in. His passing in March 2017 took away a true Titan of post-war Blues music, and, in the tradition of his former employers Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson II and Howlin’ Wolf, carried the Blues baton on to successive generations of fans and musicians. The three albums recorded for Buddah represent some of his finest work. Alan Robinson, December 2017 SHIPPING TO USA ONLY Buyer Pays Shipping $3.99 1st CD $3.99... each additional $1.50 CDs will only be combined with other CDs or DVDs To qualify for the combined discount, all items must be purchased together, paid for with 1 payment, and shipped all together in 1 shipment. Please use the add to cart feature, once you have ordered all your desired items, proceed to checkout to complete your order with the combined total.

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