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Yank Rachell Blues Mandolin Man
Recorded: 1986
Label: Random Chance/Blind Pig
Format: [email protected] 320
Time: 41:00 min.
Blues Mandolin Man puts Yank with a full band for seven of the nine tracks. The other two are acoustic numbers with Peter Roller’s guitar, Peter “Madcat” Ruth’s harmonica wizardry, and, of course, Yank doing his thing. To round out the rest of the band is Leonard Marsh, Jr. on drums and Yank’s granddaughter Sheena Rachell on bass. Not too many instruments, but just enough to make it blue.
There is an amazing thing on this album: tempo. Every song keeps your foot tappin’ along no matter where the tempo is. Find a picture of Sleepy John Estes’ house in Brownsville, Tennessee, and you could picture this music coming off the front porch in the mid 1980s. But the bass and drums keep you movin’ from song to song no matter how hot that summer got down there
This contains fine material by one of the few great mandolin bluesmen.
Tracklist
01. My Baby's Gone (5:26)
02. Moonshine Whiskey (3:23)
03. She Changed the Lock (3:40)
04. Bugle Call (2:23)
05. Dreamy Eyed Woman (3:04)
06. Cigarette Blues (3:32)
07. Make My Love Come Down (5:28 )
08. Black Snake (3:45)
09. Des Moines, Iowa (5:47)
10. Wadie Green (4:19)
[size=4]Yank Rachell - Mandolin & Vocals
Peter Roller - Guitar
Sheena Rachell - Bass
Leonard Marsh Jr. - Drums
Peter 'Madcat' Ruth - Harmonica
Recorded in Indianopolis, In., 1986.
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