Blues Stop Knockin

Lazy Lester | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 16, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Texas Music Group
• ASIN: B00005NBYD
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,754 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Blues Stop Knockin'

2. I Love You Baby

3. I'm Your Breadmaker, Baby

4. Go Ahead

5. Gonna Stick to You Baby

6. I'm Gonna Miss You (Like the Devil)

7. Ya Ya

8. They Call Me Lazy

9. Ponderosa Shuffle

10. No Special Rider Blues

11. I Told My Little Woman

12. Sad City Blues

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Lazy Lester's laid-back, swamp-blues groove requires more patience than most raised-on-rock musicians can muster. Fortunately, the Louisiana bluesman has found a second home at Austin's Antone's, where house producer-guitarist Derek O'Brien and a couple of former Fabulous Thunderbirds--guitarist Jimmie Vaughan and drummer Mike Buck--help lovingly renew the sound that Lester and Excello labelmate Slim Harpo forged during the 1960s. (The T-Birds helped revive interest in Lester when they covered his "Sugar Coated Love.") Highlights range from Harpo's salacious "I'm Your Breadmaker, Baby" (a close cousin to his "Baby, Scratch My Back") to the definitive shuffle of "Gonna Stick to You Baby" to the simmering "Sad City Blues," with Sue Foley on guest guitar. "No Special Rider" presents Lester as an acoustic one-man-band, while "Ya Ya" romps through Lee Dorsey's New Orleans classic. Lester makes his harmonica chirp, whistle, and wheeze, but his laconic vocals never break a sweat. --Don McLeese

Product Description

The swamp blues of Lazy Lester went unheard for decades until Alligator Records brought him back to solid ground in '88. He's in soul-stirring form on this 2001 album with Vaughan and guest Sue Foley: Go Ahead; Blues Stop Knockin'; Sad City Blues; I Love You Baby , and more plus seven bonus cuts from 1998's All over You ! --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lot's of great harmonica playing., May 17, 2004

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Dennis Riendeau (Hudson, NH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blues Stop Knockin (Audio CD)

I am not familiar with Lazy Lester's previous recordings but I think this CD is great. The harmonica playing is great and, though there aren't a lot of guitar solos, Jimmy sounds great too. If you love the harmonica or you are a big Jimmy Vaughan fan I think this album is a must have.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Swamp Blues Album, January 10, 2006

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Dave McShea (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blues Stop Knockin (Audio CD)

This is a great swamp blues album, with an infectious groove. Lazy Lester has an incredible style all his own, and you will find this CD ends up in heavy rotation when you are looking for funky blues.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good-to-great album with authenticity and some derivative stuff., May 19, 2011

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This review is from: Blues Stop Knockin (Audio CD)

my take on this album is that it was a valiant attempt at stretching the soup but excellent nonetheless. mr. vaughan and mr. buck-- one-half of the original fabulous thunderbirds line-up play on the first seven cuts, then cuts 9 & 11. mike buck lays down a huge pocket on the shuffles, the rollicking swamp cuts, and the slow stuff for jimmie to prance around in and do his perfect blues stylings. jimmie's a bad ass. what a player! so please stop with the criticism's about his "tone" and "uninspired" playing. he's the ultimate team player in addition to being a bad ass.

frankly the album is worth every penny and then some for cuts 1-7, 9, and 11 alone. in other words, 9 cuts, or an lp's worth of terrific authentic blues courtesy of a national treasure, lazy lester.

mr. lester plays on three cuts as a solo artist (for the most part), accompanying himself much like lightnin' hopkins and john lee hooker would. more american authenticity.

the remaining seven cuts are only teeny bit of a dropoff because mr. vaughan isn't present. the main thing is that both lazy lester and mike buck are playing on most of these cuts and derek o'brien is playing guitar.

make no mistake-- derek o'brien is a superb american blues guitar player and producer. i am grateful but he would be the first to admit that jimmie vaughan is a special musician.

again-- this album is worth every penny!