Colin Lake and Wellbottom
Bullet
© 2008 Colin Lake and Wellbottom (672617041525)
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Raw, soulful, and unapologetic. Built for comfort and for speed. This is not your daddy's blues.
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- 1 Hammer
- 2 Station Blues
- 3 Stop Breakin' Down
- 4 Blues for C.W.
- 5 Ady's Song
- 6 Mountainside
- 7 Red Cross
- 8 The Way I am
- 9 The Very Thing
- 10 Mean Old World
- 11 New Blues
- 12 Special Rider (All Over Town)
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For a few days in the Fall of 2007, Colin Lake and Wellbottom retreated to a studio in the Cascade Mountains and hit their stride. The result is the groundbreaking twelve song blues-rock masterpiece Bullet.
Produced, engineered, and mixed by Bryan Appel of Stovetopstuff!, Bullet captures Lake and his band firing on all cylinders as they soar through eight burning originals, three timeless blues gems, and one surefire hit. That hit, written by Lake's friend and musical contemporary Ian Mouser, is "Red Cross", a smart, infectious blues-pop scorcher in the vein of early Rolling Stones material that has already garnered the attention of national music publications - months before the album goes to print and without the help of a record label.
While many blues albums are forced to hide behind a single strength of the band or performer, this album has nothing and no one to fear. Bullet is an unapologetic, sun-up to sun-down romp through strikingly authentic territory. Lake's soulful vocal style, dripping slide-guitar tone, and gripping, introspective lyrics could easily have you confusing this 26 year old for a road-weary gunslinger twice his age. But as Lake clearly draws from a musical well that is older than us all, his style and approach to the music are decidedly modern. Enter the rhythm section; Bassist Kevin Marcotte and Drummer Jason Stewart had played together for years before ever meeting Lake. Steeped in jazz, funk and old school R&B, the two are improvisational wizards with feel that knows no bounds. Don't call Wellbottom a backing band - there's room in the drivers' seat for everyone and that notion rings true from the top to the bottom of Bullet's deepest grooves. Add to this the unexpected; many blues fans have never heard the sound of a record being scratched and many young hip hop fans have never heard a blues album. Somewhere in that vast divide is where the band's fourth member, Deejay Redi Jedi, feels most at home. On the hard-driving lead-off tune, "Hammer", as well as the band's funk-infused interpretation of the Robert Johnson classic "Stop Breakin' Down", Redi uses a variety of rubs, scratches, samples and rhythmic breaks that help make this album as intriguing as it is unique.
At over 63 minutes long this album is packed with go-for-broke emotion, thoughtful hooks, and honest, purposeful improvisation. With a tiny budget and huge ideas, Lake and his band have created an album that has all the feeling and none of the trappings that have come to define America's original music; Blues. Bullet is, to paraphrase, built for comfort and for speed... and the people will agree.
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Blown Away, Again
author: Brent RowlandWe saw Colin Lake at the Mock Crest Tavern in North Portland and bought "Wax Wane" on the spot. I've been waiting impatiently since then for the next album. If anything, "Bullet" is even better than the first album. I remain a huge fan.
- author: Chris Smith
This is the 2nd CD from this artist, the Winner of the renown Telluride Blues Festival. His bold vocal styling and over the top lap slide guitar cut through Bovine residue like ink out the back of a squid. I saw Colin Lake and Wellbottom in Portland, Oregon also home to Keb Mo, no wonder. I am going to see this amazing lap slide guitar player (and his Band, Wellbottom) touring through Spokane, WA in a few days. One of the great live Blues-Rock Bands to be sure.