Old Gray Mule
Have Mercy
Cash Munkey Records
The sixth cut from
Texan duo Old Gray Mule sees these purveyors of boogie blues in career-best
form, their use of the repetition which defines the style (best practiced by
the likes of RL Burnside and T-Model Ford) creating a pulsing, surging
foundation from which the album builds.
Guitarist CR
Humphrey and drummer JJ Wilburn also display a willingness to deviate on Have Mercy, bringing in Zydeco legend
Rockin’ Dopsie Jr, whose frenetic accordion on ‘Ass On Fire’ is a masterstroke.
Australians Dom Turner and Chris Parkinson feature heavily too.
Throw in a fuzzed
variation on Hendrix’s ‘Voodoo Child’ (‘Edge Of My Head’, replete with
didgeridoo), and you’ve got an album which brings the blues to a new
generation.
3.5/5
Samuel J. Fell
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