Feb 2021 John Fusco And The X-Road Riders “John The Revelator”
Artista / Grupo: John Fusco And The X-Road Riders
Álbum: "John The Revelator"
Discográfica: Checkerboard Lounge / Frank Roszak (2 Cd’s)
Año publicación: 2020
Fecha crítica: 02/2021
Valoración: VERY GOOD
Sitio web: http://www.roszakradio.com
Creator of the 1986 legendary blues film “Crossroads”, John Fusco now presents his second full-length recording, a double album with twenty songs, eighteen of them own compositions, plus two covers of “John The Revelator”, an old traditional song, and “Don’t Mess Up A Good Thing”, a song coming from Oliver Sain.
To do so he has included counted with his band, the X-Road Riders, with two different line-up, he names them as “The Southern Chapter”, the most actual one, featuring Cody Dickinson (North Mississippi All Stars) on guitars, dobro, piano, drums and electric washboard, Risse Norman (North Mississippi All Stars, Samantha Fish) on vocals in some tracks and Sarah ‘The Bone Doctor’ Morrow (Ray Charles , Dr John) on trombone, and “The Northern Chapter”, his previous line-up, which perform in the ten minutes song “Bad Dog”.
John Fusco has also counted with the special collaboration of George Walker Petit on guitar, bass and percussion and Ronnie ‘Baker Moon’ Klingsberg on harmonica in one song. All of them give the perfect support to John Fusco’s voice, Hammond B-3, piano and acoustic guitar, instruments he tastefully plays to delight listeners.
John comes back to his origins in these two recordings, with songs inspired in folk, rock, gospel, blues and especially in American roots music. In short words, two cd’s that allow listeners to appreciate in its fullest extent the creative process of an artist totally involved in his work, a musician who builds his creativity over deeply emotional motivations.