Over Time

W. C. Spencer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 30, 1998)
• Original Release Date: August 2, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Catscan Records
• ASIN: B00000AEEA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #742,186 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Washington Post, 10/2/98

One of the best blues albums I’ve heard all year also sports one of the best album covers I have ever seen.

Product Description

After nearly a century, blues music, as an art form, continues to thrive and evolve. The musicians who live and play the blues have changed and have grown along with the music. W.C. Spencer is one of these people. The bluescat has amazed audiences in the U.S. and abroad with his own brand of rhythm & blues and this second album for Catscan picks up where the first album Bluescat leaves off. Spencer has accomplished what has been called impossible for singing and playing all of these instruments at one time. Take equal parts of bassist, guitarist, harmonicist, drummer, vocalist, inventor, writer and arranger; add a lot of hard work and you get...Over Time. A collection of blues from old to new, this album traces the journey from acoustic to electric blues and beyond with style and poise. From W.C. Handy’s Atlanta Blues (1915) to Arthur Pettis’ Goodboy Blues (1930) to Bell & Jones’s Born Under A Bad Sign (1967) to W.C.’s own Some of the Things I’ve Been Meaning To Do, Talk To Me, The Country Minstrel and I’m Your Monkey (1998); Spencer charts old and new territory alike with his live ensemble renditions of uptown, country, jazzy and original blues. In a genre inhabited by so many fine players, check out a real originator and intrepreter.

Like the man said, go ahead and drown yourself - in the blues.

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Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars W.C. Spencer Does It Again!!!, December 22, 2002

By 

peter krampert (eharmonica.net) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Over Time (Audio CD)

W.C. Spencer is a one-man Blues band who has been entertaining audiences on the East Coast for several years now. His first CD, "Bluescat", was a great premiere effort that showed the talent of Mr. Spencer and should dispel the myth that One-man Blues bands are a thing of the past.

On this recording He again treats us to a nice selection of Blues standards as well as a few gems that he wrote himself. With very few exceptions, Spencers plays the drums, bass, guitar, harmonica and sings, (all at once), and does it with the authority of a fully-manned Blues band. The results are genuinely fun to listen to and I'm hoping that we will hear more from this gifted artist in the future.

i definitely recommend you give this recording a listen.