Jul 2014 Bernie Pearl “Take Your Time”
Artista / Grupo: Bernie Pearl
Álbum: Take Your Time
Discográfica: Bee Bump Music
Año publicación: 2014
Fecha crítica: 7/2014
Valoración: VERY GOOD
Bernie Pearl is a singer and guitarist with a long musical career, who fell in love with the blues more than forty years ago Now Bernie brings us a significant new album where he gives a tribute to some of his heroes He dignifies their names with his personal vision of blues, faithfully rooted in those bluesmen personal tradition but, at the same time, providing his personal, special and meaningful stamp The cd includes fourteen gems played with the respect and feeling Bernie puts in every song he performs with his personal and generous mind, to create a climax of complicity with every listener Songs coming from Big Maceo, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup, Mance Lipscomb, Fred McDowell, Mercy Dee Walton, Eddie Boyd or Big Joe Williams come and go on a precise solemn way, to make us enjoy of a unique time thanks to his voice and guitar The other musicians are Mike Barry on bass, Albert Trepagnier Jr on percussion, Bobby ‘Hurricane’ Spencer on tenor sax and the special collaboration of the excellent singer Barbara Morrison that shines at a very high level in three tracks she sings with Bernie in a duet form