| | Chico Banks Candy Lickin' Man CD Chico Banks Discography of CDs
 (2 Customer Reviews)
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When Chico Banks played guitar with the Staple Singers, his playing was hard, uncluttered, and straight to the point, yet it was tempered to fit right in with the Staples' sound. Banks' father Jessie was with the Mighty Clouds of Joy and also a bluesman, and his brother Stanley Banks is a keyboardist, with whom he co-wrote two of these songs. His playing is influenced by blues, rhythm & blues, gospel, and the psychedelia of Jimi Hendrix, especially on his tasty, never burdensome use of the wah-wah pedal. His voice is more than adequate for the job, but the cuts that stand out are those on which he concentrates on his guitar. On "It Must Be Love," Mavis Staples does the vocals, and you can feel the electricity between the two born of a mutual respect for excellence. On "All Your Love," he has "Big James" Montgomery handling the vocals and lets loose some fine playing through that wah-wah pedal. This is one of the finest guitar players to come down the avenue in a good stretch, and he can only mature from here. This is no throwaway first album, with one good cut and lots of dross; its nearly 70 minutes are filled with some mighty fine playing. ~ Bob Gottlieb
Personnel: Chico Banks (vocals, guitar); James "Big James" Montgomery (vocals, trombone); Mavis Staples (vocals); Charles Kimble (tenor saxophone); Ronnie Hicks (organ, keyboards); Lester Holmes (drums).
Audio Mixers: Chico Banks; Jim Godsey; Larry Hoffman .
Liner Note Author: Steve Sharp.
Recording information: Streeterville Studios Inc., Chicago, IL (05/23/1997/05/24/1997).
Photographer: Mark Castle. Chico Banks Candy Lickin' Man Songs | 1. | Red Dress |
| 2. | Candy Lickin' Man |
| 3. | Down the Road I Go |
| 4. | It Must Be Love |
| 5. | Angel of Mercy |
| 6. | Soul Serenade |
| 7. | All Your Love |
| 8. | Careless Things We Do |
| 9. | Got to Be Some Changes Made |
| 10. | You're Fine |
| 11. | Groove Me |
| 12. | Sky Is Crying, The |
| 13. | Truck Load of Lovin' |
| 14. | Call My Job |
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Candy Lickin' Man Music Review Purchase Candy Lickin' Man CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Tommy Castro Can't Keep A Good Man Down CD (1997)
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There's a clean San Francisco sheen to Tommy Castro's second album for Blind Pig, and it's not just the glossy production work of Jim Gaines (Santana, Huey Lewis and Stevie Ray Vaughan) that's responsible for it. Castro and his band have long been local favorites of the Bay area bar crowd, and his blues-rock/soul-pop synthesis with the occasional slow blues thrown in makes him another young contender for the yuppie throne of modern bluesdom. From the opening rock strut of "Can't Keep a Good Man Down" and "You Knew the Job Was Dangerous," Castro lays down lazy, in-the-pocket vocals (the only time he hits scream territory is on the closer, Albert King's "Can't You See What You're Doing to Me") pitted against in your face guitar blasts à la Stevie Ray Vaughan. These Texas-approved Stratocaster tones reach their apex on a five-minute-plus workout of Buddy Guy's "My Time After Awhile," where Castro literally wrenches every textbook tone and volume setting out of his instrument and makes this perhaps the most blues-approved moment of the set. A large quotient of varied originals abound, and the soulful strut of "I Want to Show You," "Take the Highway Down" and the funk jive of "High on the Hog" and "You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do" play ...
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Bay Area bluesman Tommy Castro's fourth release on Blind Pig Records follows the same formula for success as his previous CAN'T KEEP A GOOD MAN DOWN. Over the years, Castro's sizzling live performances have made him a staple of the blues circuit along the California coast.
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After building an impressive catalog at Alligator, Kenny Neal switched to Telarc Blues with Blues Fallin' Down Like Rain. Some blues enthusiasts wondered if the Baton Rouge singer/guitarist would fare as well creatively at Telarc as he had at Alligator, but they needn't have worried, for this excellent CD is every bit as strong as his Alligator dates. Neal's foundation continued to ...
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