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The Good Girl Blues

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Yes, Fishbone's John Bigham decided to make a blues record. His previous album as "The Soul of John Black" was more of a straight-forward soul album with his always tasteful guitar work. This one is different. Of course, the idea of mixing funk and blues is nothing new. Anybody who remembers the first few Funkadelic albums knows that funk started out much closer to the blues anyway. Really, Bigham is just trying to remind the blues of one of its offspring. The album is generally quite successful, and as one would expect from the Fishbone guitarists, Bigham always has a few surprises. What is most interesting here is his use of an acoustic guitar in a setting in which one would expect electric. I am reminded a bit of some of Chris Thomas King's efforts in a similar vein, but Bigham brings more straight funk into the mix, whereas CTK tried, with varying degrees of success, to incorporate hip hop. I never liked hip hop, but I love funk, so this album works for me more than CTKs, but anyone with adventerous taste in blues should check this one out. As a warning to Fishbone fans, though, if you are expected the funk/ska/punk/rock of Angelo Moore and company, this isn't it. This is a blues album with heavy strains of funk.

Fans of this one should also check out Mofro (particularly, the Lochloosa album), Ash Grunwald's "Give Signs", Eric Lindell, Scrapomatic, the John Butler Trio, John Mooney, and maybe Snooks Eaglin for some old-school New Orleans funk-blues.

This CD is awesome!!!! I heard track 1
(The Hole) on a local blues radio station
here in the DMV (DC,MD,VA)area and just
had to hear what this artist was about.
I must say that I was completely
overwhelmed. WoW!!!!!Get this cd and
you will not be dissapointed. The
industry is so watered down, rarely
will you find a CD with track after
track of good music. If Miles liked
this guy (John Bigham) you know thats
whats up.........

... and that's a good thang. i don't buy blues albums very often anymore, in fact almost never. this cd has much more in common with the 1st soul of john black cd than it does blues in general -- and thankfully so. in fact the only songs on the album that can be called blues in the structural sense are 'the moon blues' and 'deez blues'. my fave: feelins

not quite as funky as the original, which is still the gold standard for these guys.

I purchased this item from Amazon's SACD section and when it arrived as a regular cd I was more than a little disappointed. Than I played it and it had even more of what hooked me when I sampled the disc on Amazons website. But, and this is a big but, the samples as heard on my laptop don't prepare you for the overbearing, plodding, and wholly artificial bass on this disc. I like big rich bass in my blues/jazz just as much (if not maybe even a little more) than the next person, but the bass on this disc sounds so fake and at the same time so overbearing as to ruin an otherwise fantastic moody mix. I sure would like to hear a remastered SACD without the amateurish syntheticly enhanced bassline. The music is quite enjoyable.