Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

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Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
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Studio album by
James Blood Ulmer
ReleasedMay 8, 2007
Recorded2006
Genre Blues
Length48:48
Label Hyena
Producer Vernon Reid
James Blood Ulmer chronology
Back in Time
(2005)		Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
(2007)		 In and Out
(2009)

Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer, recorded in New Orleans at the Piety Street Recording Studios and released on the Hyena label in 2007. [1]

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states, "The creative place Blood finds himself in his partnership with Reid is yielding great fruit. This album is the strongest of their collaborations thus far, and is a wild ride through blues, R&B, and hard-driving distorted and feedback-laced — yet utterly musical — New Orleans funk. It's a monster". [2]

Professional ratings
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Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated
  1. "Survivors of the Hurricane" – 3:53
  2. "Sad Days, Lonely Nights" (Junior Kimbrough) – 5:59
  3. "Katrina" – 3:46
  4. "Let's Talk About Jesus" – 4:19
  5. "This Land Is Nobody's Land" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:18
  6. "Dead presidents" (Willie Dixon, William R. Emerson) – 4:40
  7. "Commit a Crime" (Chester Burnett) – 5:21
  8. "Grinnin' in Your Face" (Eddie J. House Jr.) – 4:36
  9. "There Is Power in the Blues" – 2:28
  10. "Backwater Blues" (Traditional) – 5:52
  11. "Old Slave Master" – 2:36

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ James Blood Ulmer discography Archived 2009-11-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed July 29, 2010
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. AllMusic Review accessed July 27, 2010
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1431. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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