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Lloyd Thayer - Blues For Boston
Topic Started: Apr 8 2007, 08:22 AM (625 Views)
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Lloyd Thayer - Blues For Boston

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I have the misfortune to live in a city where the only thing you want to give to the average street musician is a severe beating for disservices to music. So here's hoping the good folks of Boston appreciate their good fortune at having Lloyd Thayer playing on their streets and in their subways.

For the benefit of those who need to know such things, Lloyd plays all his songs on a 1929 National tricone squareneck steel guitar, fretted with a metal bar, flat in his lap. And it is a mighty fine sound. Live he runs a gamut of blues, jazz, rap, folk, you name it. But on this, third album, he has acceded to demands for an all blues album. There's eight original tracks and five covers, with nary a bad one to be soon. His rough, ragged voice perfectly complements the music with a medley of Skip James' 'Killing Floor' and Bob Dylan's 'Masters Of War' taking top prize, much to the chagrin of an avid Dylanophobe like me.

But if you really want to hear the blues getting stretched, bend an ear to his one chord free improvisational reimagining of 'The Message' by Grandmaster Flash, as rap gets taken back to the Delta. An absolutely astounding release, the best of the originals is 'Walking Blues' where he's got the blues so bad it hurts his tongue to talk! But pick any song and you'll find something to love.

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