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Downhome Acoustic Folk Blues, backed by Blue Mother Tupelo on six tracks
Genre:
Blues: Acoustic Blues
Release Date:
2008
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Bring Me A Little Water
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Winner of the MCBS Bluesey Award for Best Other Instrumentalist of the Year. Also nominated for Acoustic Act of the Year, and “Acoustic Alley Blues” as Blues CD of the Year.
Downhome acoustic folk blues. LJK was born and raised in the Nashville, TN area. In the late \'70\'s, solo artists were a dime a dozen in Nashville. So LJK packed up his powder blue Vega and moved to the Daytona Beach area of Florida, playing happy hours and opening for beach bands. Deciding that a steady paycheck would be a good way of life, he entered the radio scene and DJ\'d morning drive times in Greenville, KY and Winchester, VA. Realizing that he liked Tennessee better than the nomadic life of radio, he landed back in Nashville.
Back in his hometown, he hooked up with a couple of bands, playing drums for The Colour Flag and Horse Of A Different Color. But it was the blues that was in him. Since that time, playing at The Arkansas Blues & Heritage Festival (formerly the King Biscuit Festival), The Ground Zero Blues Club and the annual Juke Joint Festival in Clarksdale, MS, along with King\'s Palace on Beale Street in Memphis, The Slippery Noodle Inn in Indianapolis and the Blues Stage at The Beanblossom Blues Festival in Beanblossom, IN, and sharing the stage with Americana artists Annie Mosher and Cheley Tackett, blues artists like Blue Mother Tupelo, Jimbo Mathus, Wichita\'s Moreland & Arbuckle, Patio Daddio of Delicious Blues Stew, Indianapolis based The D-Moans, The Blues Attic Ramblers and \"The Southpaw from Arkansas\", guitarist Michael Holloway, LJK is quickly making a name for himself in the Southeast blues scene.
Bring Me A Little Water, LJK’s 3rd release on ANJ Records, combines original LJK tunes along with classic folk-blues selections and numbers from Lloyd Thayer, Jimbo Mathus and the team of Aaron Moreland & Dustin Arbuckle. Nine of the tunes were recorded at the award winning Little Hollywood Studio in Nashville, TN, engineered and produced by Danny Lee Ramsey, also featuring harmony vocals of Annie Mosher on one selection. The remaining six tunes were recorded at the Juke-Tonk Studio in Hendersonville, TN, engineered and produced by Ricky Davis. In these six selections, LJK was backed by perennial favorites Blue Mother Tupelo. With a mixture of the likes of down and dirty cigar box guitar blues (\"Joe\'s Blues\") to the folk tinged \"Sylvie\", there seems to be something for all tastes of American roots music.
All in all, we think you\'ll enjoy this downhome acoustic folk blues artist.
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Dust in your mouth blues
author: Darryl Gregory - Indie-Music.com
So you're hankerin' for some dust in your mouth? Some grit to chew on as you drive down the road in your flatbed? That hot delta air is pressing in as you finish the day's work in the fields, and you're feelin' the blues? Well Little Johnny Kantreed is gonna bring you some water so's you can wash it all down.
OK - enough of the imagery. Little Johnny Kantreed has really got a winner here. His CD "Bring Me A Little Water" is a wonderful collection of traditional blues played on dobro and cigar box guitar with some help from a few friends.
This is the kind of traditional blues you would hear during a lunch break in the fields where someone toted along their homemade stringed instrument and just started singin' about what's ailin' them. Most of the tracks are presented plain and simple - put up a microphone and press record, but a few have a little flavor added to them ("Good Woman Blues") for some vocal effects, but nothing out of the nature of the song. Little Johnny Kantreed has a voice very much like the indie bluesman Malcolm Holcombe: a gravel road going through a dry cotton field and he plays the dobro and cigar box in a very simple traditional manner that accompanies his singing just right. The cigar box guitar really brings out the blues DNA, allowing you to hear all the way back through the plantations to the plains of Africa.
"Bring Me A Little Water" is packed with a great assortment of traditional songs including a rendition of "Good Night Irene" that has everyone on the front porch singing and playing. Kantreed includes some simple solo performances of songs like "Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad," the classic by Big Bill Broomzy, and his own composition "Joe's Blues." "Asked My Captain" by James Mathus of the Squirrel Nut Zippers is a nifty work song, complete with sledgehammer and anvil stomps.
This is the kind of CD where you either get it or you don't. If you know what real traditional blues should sound like, then this is a CD you should look into getting.
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Get ready people...
author: Chuck Dauphin - Music City News
Make no mistake about it, this is a Blues album. Born and raised in Music City, Kantreed has recorded an album that feels like it would be home down in the swampland of Louisiana or the Mississippi Delta.
The opener, "Cigar Box Blues," churns and turns just like any rebel-rouser in the afore-mentioned states would, and he turns in a nice cover of the classic "Goodnight Irene." He can slow it down just a little, as he does on the story song "Louis Collins" and the raspy "The Red Rose," where Kantreed shows a little bit of a sensitive side.
My personal favorite on this album is the thumping "What A Shame," which while there are no blues singles charts (I'm not counting the hip / hop dominated R&B chart), I think this song could have a huge impact. Get ready, people….Kantreed is about to make his voice known!
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Bring Me A Little Water
author: Don & Cheryl Crow - Music City Blues Society
It has been our pleasure to know Little Johnny Kantreed since, well, since none of us had any gray hair! He's a brilliant guitarist and storyteller, always fun to be around and listen to. His vocal delivery and picking style evokes a time when the disciples of the Delta roamed the earth, spreading the gospel of the blues. On his latest CD, "Bring Me A Little Water," johnny can be counted as one of those disciples, turning in fifteen standout performances, mixing in cool originals with some well-chosen covers.
The last time we saw Johnny, he'd been playing a LoweBow, or a cigar box guitar, and this unique instrument is prominently featured on this CD, adding to its definitive "down home" sound. Check out the leadoff "Cigar Box Blues," a traditional tale of meeting up with the "blues, walking just like a man." The tone he gets from that guitar is also perfect for a cover of Alvin Hart's "Big Mama's Door."
Nine tracks of this set were produced by Danny Lee Ramsey, and the other six feature backing harmony and instrumentation from Blue Mother Tupelo, with Ricky Davis handling the production chores. Johnny shows off his dobro skills on "You Got To Move," and lets Ricky take lead guitar on the cut from which the lyrics are drawn for the album's title, "Sylvie." Johnny handles the banjo on this cut, and Micol Davis' sweet backing vocals paint a beautiful sonic palette.
Everyone will have their favorites on this diverse set, and we had three. There's neat use of the "echo effect" on "Asked My Captain," as well as the "chain gang"-like field hollers and anvil strikes. Johnny plays banjo and dobro on the sweet tale of a simpler time, back "before the information superhighway," entitled "I Remember Dirt." Fellow roots music songstress Annie Mosher's vocals make this one a sweet duet. And, "Joe's Blues," is a rowdy tale of a junkyard resident with a taste for whisky and wimmin', and is fueled by some fiery lead work from Johnny on the cigar box guitar.
Johnny has always called Middle Tennessee his home, but the blues are in his heart and soul. And, with the varied production techniques employed on this set as well as the clever choice of material, "Bring Me A Little Water" is his best and most adventurous offering to date. This one is sure to bring Little Johnny Kantreed to a wider audience than ever!
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Bring Me a Little Water
author: lloyd thayer
Another fine acoustic blues effort from Little Johnny Kantreed...........this cd features some real nice dobro work and funky homemade cigar box guitar pickin.......Really enjoying the diversity of songs on the Cd, from John Prine's "One Red Rose" to Jimbo Mathus' "Asked My Captain" and a couple of real nice renditions of some Leadbelly classics. A really beautiful version of "Sylvie" closes out the Cd, and leaves you wanting more.
Fans of acoustic blues, dobro, and folk will love this cd..........Pick up your copy today!!
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