George Winston
Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions - A Hurricane Relief Benefit
Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions - A Hurricane Relief Benefit
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UPC Code: 828767516523
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Number of Discs: 1
Description
Folks may think George Winston is a little late on his benefit record for the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. They're wrong. This record will be issued a week after the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and in the middle of hurricane season. The sheer amount of work and money needed to rehab the region is so astronomical it'll never be too late. Winston is donating all of his proceeds to the certain organizations around the region, and the label has pledged its "net profits." These are two different things, but on to the music. The bottom line here is that Winston proves he can shake it on this set. He's not James Booker, whose "Pixie" he covers wonderfully here. Nor is he "Fess" (Professor Longhair), Dr. John (a cover of "Creole Moon" is on this set), or his friend Henry Butler -- whose crib in the Lower Ninth Ward got wiped out by Katrina. But he can play this music, and his own compositions are soulful, direct, and loaded with aural imagery from the Big Easy tradition and that's what counts. His read of "Creole Moon" may not possess the loose, joyous, funky butt swing of Dr. John's ballad, but it does contain plenty, plenty soul; as an interpreter, Winston coaxes some of the more sophisticated compositional aspects of the tune out through the blues. Likewise, "Pixie" is a bit more formal than the fluid jump of Booker's version, but Winston gets the spirit across and kicks it into high blues stride. He composed his own extrapolation of the cut as well, called "Pixie #3 (G
Tracks
| Track | Title | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Orleans Shall Rise Again | 2:43 | |
| 2 | Creole Moon | 6:23 | |
| 3 | Pixie | 5:16 | |
| 4 | The Breaks | 4:15 | |
| 5 | Pixie #3 (Gobagie) | 4:17 | |
| 6 | Stevenson | 1:57 | |
| 7 | Gulf Coast Lullaby - Part 1 | 2:38 | |
| 8 | Gulf Coast Lullaby - Part 2 | 2:51 | |
| 9 | When The Saints Go Marching In | 11:55 | |
| 10 | Blues For Fess, Beloved | 4:56 |
