Mississippi Magic

Terry Evans | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 27, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Audioquest
• ASIN: B000058T8G
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #109,181 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Big Bad Daddy Good

2. Where The Southern Crosses The Dog

3. I’d Rather Trick My Own Self

4. Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You

5. Blues & Wine

6. I Want To Love You

7. Mellow Down Easy

8. Let Love Begin

9. You Better Get Your Shit Together

10. Where We Gonna Go

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellence from a bluesman who is new to me..., April 20, 2003

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Max G. Mahaffee "maxlaw" (Charleston, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mississippi Magic (Audio CD)

I heard the song "You Better Get Your Sh** Together" and was struck with a Mississippi delta bluesman that had, on most cuts on this CD, a blues feel that easily fits also the groove of the South Carolina state dance, the shag. Well, I guess I told my age on that one, but for 40 years I have enjoyed the blues, but this man revitalizes anyone's interest and feel for the blues, even if you do not know how to dance the shag. This CD is now in my top 10 of modern blues men...I am playing the heck out of it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ferocious Soul Power!, April 26, 2008

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Steven Jay (Denver CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mississippi Magic (Audio CD)

Terry Evans' fifth solo effort -- not including two with fellow vocalist Bobby King -- is his first not featuring guitar master and ex-employer Ry Cooder. While that may disappoint Cooder fans, especially since his work on previous Evans discs was some of the guitarist's best and most incisive non-soundtrack R&B/rock/blues playing of the '90s, it allows this album more room for the singer and his rugged touring group to strut their stuff. Recorded primarily live in the studio in only four days with his longtime backing musicians, Mississippi Magic is a rollicking example of Evans' uncut, non-commercialized, gritty gospel and swamp vocals. He reprises and rearranges the earlier tracks "Let Love Begin" and "Where We Gonna Go," which were originally recorded on albums with King. He also taps Jorge Calderon (who goes under the alias of J.C. Parsons for two more, and turns in stunning versions of "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You" and especially Willie Dixon's "Mellow Down Easy." The latter finds his band locking together on a joyous, upbeat groove where Evans is positively jubilant and proves how tight and capable this group is. Elsewhere, guitarist Jesse Samsel turns in solos that are so similar to Cooder's -- especially when he lets his slide loose on "Let Love Begin" -- you'll be checking the liner notes to be sure who's playing. Evans digs into this material with the gruff but affable approach that added such down-home Southern soul to Cooder's and Hans Theessink's work. His version of Theessink's "Where the Southern Crosses the Dog" is one of this disc's highlights, but there is truly not a weak track here. Whether he's singing straight blues or testifying with religion-soaked R&B, Evans brings ferocious, rousing soul power to Mississippi Magic.