Luther Allison Underground CD

In making this cd, it was my intention to try for the vintage sound characteristic of the Sun Records and the late fifties sounds. I used a four track recorder and acouple of guitars and a Yamaha piano, organ and rythmn track.

The songs are a mix of some favorite covers and my own original, 8 of each. Lil Red Riding Hood was the version made popular by Sam the Sham. It was the first that I ever played and sang in a band when I was a teenager. Yikes, that long ago, huh?!Don't Be Rude is my song that isn't really about nastythings as much as the way things have gone in music thesedays. Nuff said.

Durango Kid was written after a vacation to Arizona last year and way too many cowboy movies.

Carl Perkins. What else can you say?Jerry Lee. Ditto.

This all started out as me finding new ways to pass the time in college when I had no homework that demanded my immediate attention, and I bought a piece of software called GuitarPro. After about eight months of experimenting with this software I discovered that I had an incredibly powerful and effective tool for creating electronic music, a tool that I had become rather good at using. After talking with a relative of mine who is "in the biz," he listened to some of my music, and suggested I get out there and start selling it.

A Triumphant Return is my third full album, and the first one really worth posting. Here are some song-by-song descriptions of what you have to listen to here:(All songs feature Drum Kit 16 from GuitarPro 5.

0, as well as the listed instruments per song.

)Dance 2.

0 - A reworking of one of my older songs under the original title of d4nc3, this solid redirection of my then-writer's block features a rolling interplay of electronic sounds and piano, koto and string flourish, and gradually builds from a more light-hearted sound to something almost epic.

Electric Grand Piano, Sawtooth Lead, Koto, Tremolo Strings, CelloLily - An electronic reincarnation of a two-year old guitar lick of mine, Lily is the hardest song on the album. It is powered by driving 3/4 drum beats beneath a powerful mix of heavy guitar chords, church bells, guitar melody and scale play, and a haunting vocal pad. Listen closely for every part, if you can!Distortion Guitar (scale play), Overdriven Guitar (melodies/chords), Sawtooth Lead (bass), Bowed Synth Pad, Tubular BellsBoost - This song, despite its incredibly upbeat sound, was born from spite. A certain someone believed that my music could not be fit to energize a group of people, and so I set out to prove him wrong. Boost features a high-energy combination of syncopated beats over basic drums that support an ascending structure of what can only be described as a "warm" sound.

Square Lead (primary sound), Overdriven Guitar (melody), Hammond Organ (secondary sound/countermelody), Electric Bass Guitar (bass line)Beat - Another song inspired by another, a friend once asked me if GuitarPro could make techno, and I said, "I don't know, let's find out!" This is the result: "head-bobbing" drum beats, bass clef strings, octave jumping electronics, and a sound that grows from driving to optimistic and by the end, something faintly dark.