New York Minute / Jay Willie Blues Band

Willie, Jay/Blues Band......

Hollywood • New York Minute • Chain’ Smokin’ • You Hurt Me • It’s Your Thing • Devilbones • I Can’t Be Satisfied • Champagne & Reefer • The Wobble • Tattooed You • Watch Pocket • Goin’ Down Slow • Hoodoo • Best Side of You • That Ain’t It

On their first ZOHO Roots release, the Jay Willie Blues Band lays down 15 vintage Texas blues, rock, and ballad tracks, including eight scorching band originals plus famous early R&B classics and obscure early blues rediscoveries. Inspired and influenced by the incendiary guitar and slide guitar work by Texas blues legend Johnny Winter, Willie fortifies his blues band with Winter’s ex-drummer Bobby T Torello as a special guest. Other special guests include young Dutch R&B singer and YouTube discovery Marlou Zandvliet (“Hollywood”), and harmonica ace Jason Ricci. In typical blues funkiness and an ironic but provocative sideswipe at political correctness, some of the album’s songs celebrate the guilty pleasures of “Chain Smokin’” and “Champagne and Reefer” — the latter a powerful Muddy Waters tune.

Price: $19.98