Paris Slim
Bleedin' Heart
© 1998 Frank Goldwaser (786498001827)
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Contemporary Blues from the San Francisco Bay Area. Original, guitar-driven material. NO BLUES ROCK here. Produced by Joe Louis Walker, Sonny Rhodes guests on one song.
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- 1 Molly's Backyard Blues
- 2 Too Hot In Here
- 3 Bleedin' Heart
- 4 Let's Talk About Love
- 5 If You Dig Me (Let Me Know)
- 6 The Day I Met The Boogie Man
- 7 You Did Me Wrong
- 8 Hit The Road and Ride
- 9 Doggin' The Dog
- 10 The Candle Is Burning Low
- 11 No Escapin' From The Blues
- 12 If You dig Me (Let Me Know) Live Mix
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The album opens with a collaboration with long-time friend Joe Louis Walker, who also co-produced. Walker contributes a jaw-dropping bottleneck guitar part to this electric country blues piece, which reflects the general direction of Paris Slim's current work.
Another original song, "If You Dig Me...", rocks to a West Side boogie guitar riff over a country two-step and features the lead guitar of Paris Slim's mentor and most direct influence, Texas bluesman Sonny Rhodes. The songwriter on this one is former Robert Cray band-member Tim Kaihatsu who also offers the lyrics to "Too Hot In Here", a swamp/funk rocker featuring the grungy alto saxophone of The Lords Of Outland's Rent Romus.
In a more traditional vein is Slim's tribute to the great Chicago slide guitarists, most particularly Hound Dog Taylor, on the ripping "Doggin' The Dog". On the latter, Slim used Hound Dog's very own Teisco 4 pick-up guitar and applied an anarchistic mix, showcasing the hard-swinging rhythm section and Steve Lucky's merciless piano attitude.
"Hit The Road And Ride", with its rumba-with-a-back-beat groove and Magic Sam-influenced tremolo guitar, is possibly the first blues song ever recorded to deal with the artists's resentment of the Answering Machine. As we get near the end of the album, the mood becomes resolutely darker.
The obscure Johnny Otis-Mel Walker song "The Candle's Burnin' Low" receives a swamp blues treatment, where the true star is Kelvin Dixon, for his offering of the most uninhibited drum track ever put down this side of Ted Harvey.
The primal, hypnotic "No Escapin' From The Blues" descends directly from John Lee Hooker's historical Detroit works of the 1950's. A hookeresque guitar moans on one side of the track over a one-chord drone, while the Buddy Guy/Freddie King influenced lead guitar answers the vocal. The mighty rhythm section of veteran blues bassist Johnny Ace and drummer John Hanes steals the show here, furnishing the organic, hard-rocking, Mississippi Delta-meets-The-Jimi Hendrix Experience beat.
The album closes with an rowdier,alternate mix of "If You Dig Me..." featuring a different Sonny Rhodes guitar solo, complete with over-dubbed crowd noises.
"An absolute corker... Slim is a natural, on accomplished vocalist, superb guitarist and splendid songwriter. Long respected as a Bay Area bluesman's bluesman, this French ex-patriot, aka Frank Goldwasser, has honed his guitar, harmonica and vocal chops in the deep Oakland sounds of Sonny Rhodes, Cool Papa and Troyce Key. The popular Slim has just released his second album in six years. It's co-produced by Joe Louis Walker and in a word, it's stunning. "Bleedin' Heart" will hold up more than favorably against any blues release that will see a laser light this year."
Joseph Jordan - Bay Area BluesBeat/Blues Access, Winter 1996
"The French ambassador of American Blues... I hear a number of vocal influences,perhaps the most prominent being Texas master Johnny Winter; Slim has that level of intensity in his delivery... Forceful and soulful Playing. This one comes highly recommended,"
Vintage Guitar Magazine, December 1996, - David Hussong
"One of the hottest of a new generation of West Coast Blues artists... An exciting and arresting outing... Plenty of in your-face guitar action, good songwriting and exceptional recording quailty... Total Blues Immersion."
Blues Access, Spring 1997 - Tali Madden
"...a tasteful package of modern guitar blues that should enhance the reputation of Paris Slim beyond the Bay Area."
Blues Review, April/May 1997 - Thomas J. Cullen III