Hugh Laurie - Let Them Talk

Styles: Vocal, Guitar And Piano Jazz
Year: 2011
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:04
Size: 133,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:25)  1. St James Infirmary
(3:39)  2. You Don't Know My Mind
(4:55)  3. Six Cold Feet
(3:12)  4. Buddy Bolden's Blues
(3:47)  5. Battle Of Jericho
(4:09)  6. After You've Gone
(2:43)  7. Swanee River
(3:37)  8. The Whale Has Swallowed Me
(3:34)  9. John Henry
(3:33) 10. Police Dog Blues
(5:07) 11. Tipitina
(2:59) 12. Winin' Boy Blues
(1:12) 13. They're Red Hot
(4:57) 14. Baby Please Make A Change
(4:10) 15. Let Them Talk

Music has been present in Hugh Laurie’s career in some form or another since the days of Fry & Laurie, even working its way into House, the American television series that turned him into an international star in the 2000s. Without House, Laurie would never have been granted the opportunity to record an album like 2011’s Let Them Talk, a full-blooded immersion into American blues via New Orleans, shepherded by acclaimed roots producer Joe Henry and featuring such Big Easy heavy-hitters as Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, and Irma Thomas. To his enormous credit, Laurie never sounds like a dilettante among this group; he holds his own, working his way into the marrow of the songs, playing credible piano throughout the record. Which isn’t to say that he quite makes this selection of standards his own, either. There are reworkings and reinterpretations, “Tipitina” in particular being turned on its head, but the problem with Let Them Talk isn’t the guts and blood of the music, or the slightly studious air Henry cultivates. No, the problem is how Laurie’s blues accent inevitably slides into affectations quite familiar from House. He can’t help it, that’s his American accent, but it’s disarming to have a number cooking along and all of a sudden Princeton Plainsboro’s favorite misanthrope has taken the lead. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine https://www.allmusic.com/album/let-them-talk-mw0002112639

Let Them Talk

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Hugh Laurie - Didn't It Rain

Styles: Vocal, Guitar And Piano Jazz
Year: 2013
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:54
Size: 122,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:23)  1. The St. Louis Blues
(2:55)  2. Junkers Blues
(3:27)  3. Kiss Of Fire
(4:28)  4. Vicksburg Blues
(4:17)  5. The Weed Smoker's Dream
(4:20)  6. Wild Honey
(5:26)  7. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
(3:03)  8. Evenin'
(2:52)  9. Didn't It Rain
(5:21) 10. Careless Love
(4:00) 11. One For My Baby
(4:17) 12. I Hate A Man Like You
(3:58) 13. Changes

After the huge success of his debut album, Let Them Talk, on which he celebrated and revived classic material from the world of NOLA blues, Hugh Laurie presents his second album, Didn't It Rain. Didn't It Rain sees Hugh Laurie depart the sounds of New Orleans as he follows the trajectory of the blues upstream and into the American heartland. It includes songs dating back to early pioneers W.C. Handy ("St Louis. Blues") and Jelly Roll Morton ("I Hate A Man Like You") to more recent artists such as Dr. John ("Wild Honey") and Alan Price of The Animals ("Changes"). Again produced by Joe Henry, Didn't It Rain was recorded at Ocean Way Studio in Los Angeles in January of 2013. Complemented with the heart and accomplishment of his supporting musicians the Copper Bottom Band - Jay Bellerose, Kevin Breit, Vincent Henry, Greg Leisz, Robby Marshall, David Piltch and Patrick Warren with Elizabeth Lea and Larry Goldings - the album also features several lead vocal performances from Guatemalan singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno and soul singer Jean McClain who has previously worked with artists as varied as Jimmy Cliff and Sheryl Crow. The album also highlights a very special guest in the shape of the Grammy-winning blues artist Taj Mahal who contributes vocals to a new take on Little Brother Montgomery's "Vicksburg Blues."~ Editorial Reviews https://www.amazon.com/Didnt-Rain-Hugh-Laurie/dp/B00DBRT4Z6

Personnel: Hugh Laurie – vocals, acoustic guitar, whistle, piano, Wurlitzer organ; Greg Leisz – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro, mandola, mandolin; Patrick Warren – accordion, Hammond b-3 organ, pump organ, keyboards; Vincent Henry – vocals, harmonica, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone; Jay Bellerose – drums, percussion; Larry Goldings – Hammond b-3 organ; Kevin Breit – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, tenor banjo, mandocello, mandola, mandolin, background vocals; Jean McClain – background vocals; Elizabeth Lea – trombone; David Plitch – upright bass, electric bass; Robby Marshall – clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone

Didn't It Rain

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