Slim Paul - Dead Already
Deadly good!
Just this once, I’m going to drop the living singers to introduce a dead singer. "Slim Paul is Dead Already", that’s what was written on the CD. Obviously it’s only a position.
If some artists come with no fanfare, Scarecrow ex singer comes with a drum and a trumpet ("Nola Song"). Nevertheless he delivers genuine and sincere music. Some blues stuffed with references to Louisiana: here New Orleans, there Mississippi... Which seats him on Sonny Landreth’s grounds somehow – without reaching the same slide guitar level, for nobody can be expected to achieve the impossible.
With some soul music and some gospel (a capella in "One of These Days", nothing to do with Pink Floyd but the title).
With a touch of funky-groovy too ("Let Me In", reinforced by Bastien Andrieu’s incredible vintage organ).
With swaying percussions which usefully accompany his chants ("Buried Land").
What a guitar, my friends! Very good one. Arpeggios, rhythm, riffs, electric, acoustic, slide... Everything’s used up!
Listen to "Lady Sorrow" solos and Louis Bertignac can go to bed peaceful, things are in safe hands. And a little bird tells me it’s even better on stage.
For an angel hovered above the hat of the most American of Toulouse residents. This angel is known, so let’s call him by his name: Ben Harper. He has patently inspired Slim Paul a lot. It’s especially visible in "Same Mornin" (in particular from 2:23, the moment when everything goes over!)
The old grumps, or the ones who really know this register, may object all of this has already been heard numerous times. It’s probably true. So what? Anyway he is right: we’re all dead already.
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The 2 last tracks ("Free Talk" and "Dead Already") prove by themselves Slim Paul knows about length. I discovered their existence later, when I bought the CD, whereas I already got familiar with the other 10 via Soundcloud (link at section "…And now, listen!" below).
Track "Dead Already", with its 10 minutes, is amazing because... you don’t know when it’s over! Give it a try: close your eyes and say at which time it stops. I bet you won’t get it. -
Stuck in My Own City
One of These Days
Beauty n the Beat -
Free Talk
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The sentence
“Some are born to rule the world, the rest of us to burn in hell” ("Buried Land")
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himwww.slimpaul.com (243 Hits)
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...And now, listen!
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TagsDead already | Slim Paul | Pink Floyd | Louis Bertignac | Sonny Landreth | Scarecrow | Ben Harper | blues | guitar
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Created02 March 2019
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Thank you gél for your mindblowing zentangles.