Late Last Night

John Mooney | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bullseye Blues
• ASIN: B00000048J
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #384,608 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD

John Mooney's meld of country blues and New Orleans R&B is wearisome. His mannered singing and antigroove band have all the spark you'd expect of songs with such dismal titles as "It Don't Matter," "RIP," "Late Last Night," and "Late On in the Evening." The Crescent City guitarist's earlier albums, Telephone King (Ichiban CD) and Comin' Your Way (Blind Pig CD), are livelier but empty. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Pour yourself a bourbon sit back and let this flow over you..., December 5, 2009

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W. Huber (Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Late Last Night (Audio CD)

I also have a huge collection of music, and this one is magical. Don't listen to the critics, Mooney tapped a vein here!

5.0 out of 5 stars I Disagree... This is one of his best records!!!, July 4, 2009

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P. R. Harris (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Late Last Night (Audio CD)

I couldn't disagree more with the reviewer who says this is a lesser effort! This is one of his more complete records. I realize music is subjective; however, the "New Orleans, R-n-B, Funk, Syncopation, Delta, swampy blues thing" that makes Mooney a greatly under-appreciated master is on full display here! I love some his stripped down efforts, too. The guy is so talented. This record is one of my favorite CDs in a 1000 CD collection! I used to live in New Orleans, and saw him several times with a band and playing by himself! If you can ever see him live, you'll likely be a life-long fan!

3.0 out of 5 stars possibly Mooney's worst release - but still good fonky blues, July 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Late Last Night (Audio CD)

In my opinion, John Mooney's the real deal - not only a stunning slide guitarist, impassioned singer and fine songwriter, he seems to have a unique artistic sensibility - a commodity I find all-too-rare in modern blues.

This is very much a transitional album for John Mooney, moving on from his acoustic albums initially released on Blind Pig ("Comin' your Way" and "Telephone King", both masterful acoustic-orientated albums, as well as "Sideways in Paradise", recorded with Jimmy Thackery) into a Meters-inspired electric group, more in-tune with his then-adopted hometown of New Orleans.

In retrospect, it's a slightly disappointing effort from such a talented musician, party due to a cover-laiden set, partly poor production and partly due to some occasionally uninspired playing compared to his other recordings. But hey, if he was just about anybody else, this album would be better'n good.

So, buy this album after you've got all the others - his live electric "Travellin' On" is blistering, and "Against the Wall" is possibly his best and most consistent electric set.

And as a final word, I disagree totally with Frank John Hadley's review - that in the same book he rates (the albeit hugely-talented slide guitarist) Roy Rodgers as being a more creditable artist than Mooney defies belief.