Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Doug Wamble Title: Country Liberations Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Marsalis Release Date: 8/4/2003 Album Type: Import Genre: Jazz Styles: Modern Postbebop, Swing Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Bebop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 |
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Many jazz musicians play the blues as if it were an abstract concept free from references to any specific time or place, but not guitarist and songwriter Doug Wamble. The compositions on his debut CD Country Libations are ... more » |
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Amazon.com Many jazz musicians play the blues as if it were an abstract concept free from references to any specific time or place, but not guitarist and songwriter Doug Wamble. The compositions on his debut CD Country Libations are restless and expansive but even when they verge on the avant-garde, there's no forgetting they are deeply rooted in the Delta blues of the 1920s. Wamble does more than just mimic earlier guitar styles. "Libation #4--Ain't Quite Four This Morning," for example, starts out as an almost clichéd blues song--he's broke and his baby's left him--but Wamble's soulful, gospel inflected singing and nuanced guitar picking save it from descending to the level of mere pastiche. Wamble's band includes pianist Roy Dunlap, bassist Jeff Hanley, drummer Peter Miles, and violinist Charles Burnham, who used to play with James Blood Ulmer, while Branford Marsalis appears on two tracks. Doug Wamble's music has deep roots, which gives it the strength and vitality to branch out in surprising new ways. --Michael Simmons Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsCritics... Musicus | Earthville, USA | 01/27/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "if you like leon redbone, you won't like this CD. apples and oranges. anyone who suggests otherwise must be a liner notes writer." A great album Gray Flannel Dwarf | South Bend, IN | 01/29/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is a great album by a great guitarist and vocalist. Country Libation #2 (Trouble, Lord) and #7 (Along the Way) are worth the price of admission alone -- I particularly like the lyrics and delivery of Along the Way. The cover of Sting's Walking on the Moon is also excellent. This album shows a broad range of influences and is hard to pin down in any one genre. I can't recommend it enough. " Completely unique, completely original, completely unclassif Nobody important | 08/16/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "I must say, I am puzzled by some of the negative reviews. First, my opinion: this is the most original blending of delta blues, New Orleans jazz, bop, free jazz, gospel, ragtime, etc. that I have ever heard. This album transcends any genre boundaries, and does so with energy, wit and style. As far as instrumental prowess, I have been playing guitar for 17 years, and violin for 25 years, and I can't play this stuff. Wamble isn't a virtuoso on the level of Lenny Breau or Joe Pass, but he is certainly on par with a Jim Hall, a Grant Green, or a Barney Kessel, and his style is immediately identifiable. Quite simply, there is nothing else out there like this. Listen to the sound clips. If you don't like it, don't buy it.
Now, for the criticisms. He is anything but a purist. If you want pure jazz, pure blues, pure New Orleans, pure gospel, etc., then don't buy this album. If you have a single traditionalist bone in your body, you won't like Doug Wamble. If you think there is a single inviolable rule, you won't like Doug Wamble. He breaks the rules by drawing equally from Django Reinhardt, Ornette Coleman and Robert Johnson. Frankly, that's why I love this stuff. He doesn't follow traditions. He blazes a new path. Death to genre boundaries! If you want blues, listen to Robert Johnson. If you want New Orleans jazz, listen to Louis Armstrong. If you want gospel, listen to Mahalia Jackson. If you want bop, listen to Charlie Parker. If you want free jazz, listen to Ornette Coleman. If you want all of that mixed together with a few other styles for spice, listen to Doug Wamble. Next, he sounds nothing like anybody. Leon Redbone?! Give me a break. Wamble isn't going for that sound at all. Leon Redbone doesn't combine delta blues, bop, free jazz or gospel with his old-timey sound. Frisell? Cassandra Wilson? Actually, I would say that Wamble is the next Frisell/Wilson. Wamble has clearly listened to Frisell's "Nashville" album quite a bit, and Cassandra Wilson clearly thinks he's got something since she has played with him (check out her "Traveling Miles" album), but Wamble's sound is immediately distinguishable from both. Again, take a listen to the sound clips, then try to tell me he sounds like Frisell or Wilson. Ry Cooder? Ry's a decent blues player, but can't play jazz to save his life. Do we really want to say that anyone who isn't as good at slide as Ry Cooder should never play slide?! By that reasoning, Ry Cooder shouldn't be allowed to play slide because he is nothing compared to Sonny Landreth, Jerry Douglas, Kelly Joe Phelps, Jeff Lang, Martin Simpson, Robert Randolph etc. Besides, even on slide, Wamble's sound is too jazz-based to sound anything like Cooder. And don't get me started on Tronzo-- talk about sloppy slide work. The man thinks running the slide over the greatest distance possible in the shortest amount of time somehow sounds good. Col. Bruce Hampton?! Their voices are NOTHING alike. The Col. goes for a goofy, affected sound more in the tradition of Zappa. Wamble's vocals come straight out of gospel. Bottom line: Wamble doesn't sound like anyone out there. Not authentic?! That's code. That's what people say about young, white people who play blues or jazz, or step outside tradition in any way. Screw authenticity. Wamble plays from the heart. That's the only kind of "authentic" I want." |
