Kenny Neal - Deluxe Edition

Kenny Neal

Kenny Neal - Deluxe Edition


Over 60 minutes from the young champion of Louisiana blues guitar and harmonica. Includes "Caught In The Jaws Of A Vice," "Outside Looking In," and "Hoodoo Moon;" remastered in 20-bit audio. With never-before-seen photos & special mini poster


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1. Caught In The Jaws Of A Vise 3:47
2. That Knife Don't Cut No More 6:12
3. Outside Looking In 4:44
4. Hoodoo Moon 3:13
5. The Truth Hurts 4:28
6. Caught Your Back Door Man 4:38
7. Evalina 3:59
8. Baby Bee 4:30
9. Neal And Prey 3:49
10. Any Fool Will Do 3:56
11. Lightning's Gonna Strike 3:40
12. Morning After 3:06
13. The Son I Never Knew 3:47
14. Howling At The Moon 3:13
15. Change My Way Of Livin' 4:46
16. Believe In Yourself 3:30

Kenny Neal: vocal, harp, electric and acoustic guitar
WITH
Rhythm Guitar:
Ernie Lancaster or Bryan Bassett
Bass:
Noel Neal, except
Darnell Neal (7, 9)
Bob Greenlee (5, 8, 15)
Anthony Hardesty (3, 6)
Drums:
Kennard Johnson, except
Jim Payne (5, 7, 10, 13, 15)
Gralin Hoffman (3, 6, 8)
Mark Blair (7)
Keyboards:
Lucky Peterson, except
Kenny Burch (7)
Silent Partners (1):
Russell Jackson, Bass Guitar
Tony Coleman, Drums
The Horny Horns (1, 5):
Fred Wesley, Trombone
Maceo Parker, Alto Sax
The King Snake Horns:
Bill Samuel, Saxes & arrangements
Buzz Montsinger, Tenor Sax
Bob Greenlee, Baritone Sax & arrangements
Leroy Cooper, Baritone Sax
Bruce Staelens, Trumpet
Sylvester Polk, Trumpet
Danny "Boney" Fields, Trumpet
Jan Pattishall, Trombone

Tracks 1, 5 & 12 produced by Bob Greenlee & Kenny Neal, 1990
Tracks 2, 9, 11 & 14 produced by Kenny Neal, Bob Greenlee & Bruce Iglauer, 1992
Tracks 3, 6, 7 & 8 produced by Bob Greenlee & Kenny Neal, 1988
Tracks 4 &16 produced by Kenny Neal, Bob Greenlee & Bruce Iglauer, 1994
Tracks 10, 13, & 15 produced by Bob Greenlee & Kenny Neal, 1989

All tracks recorded at King Snake Studios, Sanford, FL, and mixed at Streeterville Studios, Chicago, IL

Engineers: Bob Greenlee, Bryan Bassett, Andrew McIntire, Pete Carr, Jay Shilliday, Dave Bell, Warren King & Rick Bailey

Mixers: David Axelbaum, Jay Shilliday & Julian Herzfeld

Deluxe Edition Series produced by Bob DePugh, Bruce Iglauer and David Forte

Design by David Forte
Cover and Inlay photography by Koichi Uchida

Kenny Neal has become the ambassador of the Baton Rouge, Louisiana blues sound, taking the heritage of his father, bluesman Raful Neal, and his father's famed musician friends and speading it worldwide.  Whether he's squeezing the strings of his ancient, battered Telecaster, stretching out on a funky bass riff, or blowing a chugging, reedy solo on harp, Kenny's sound is unmistakably Baton Rouge.  But he isn't just recycling the songs of his mentors, like Slim Harpo (who gave Kenny his first harp when the boy was three to stop him from crying), Lazy Lester and his father, or the wild string-bending style of the late Guitar Slim and the obscure but brilliant Rudolph Richard.  Rather, Kenny has absorbed the sounds of the masters he knew, added the fire of fellow Baton Rouge-ite Buddy Guy (with whom Kenny toured as a bass player while still a teenager) and strained it all through a modern, young sensibility to create the Kenny Neal sound. 

Live, Kenny is spontaneous and unstoppable.  He's even taken his talent to Broadway, where he starred in Lincoln Center's production of Zora Neale Hurston's Mule Bone, and won the Theatre World Award for Most Outstanding New Talent.  He's toured for the U.S. government as a blues ambassador across Africa, and he and his tireless road band of various Neal brothers and the great Chicago drummer Kennard Johnson have taken his incendiary live show from Argentina to Europe to Japan (opening for B.B. King) and practically every blues club in the U.S.

Whether he's laying into one of his original songs (often co-written with Florida producer/bassist/horn arranger Bob Greenlee) or updating a South Louisiana classic, Kenny's musical gumbo, mixing swamp blues, a bit of modern funk, Chicago blues and New Orleans rhythms, all cooked over a fire of Baton Rouge roots, marks him as one of the true blues torchbearers of his generation.