Name: Bluestime
Brand: Rounder Select
SKU: 18660
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Bluestime

Rating

Album: Bluestime
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I Got to Find My Baby
2)	Pontiac Blues
3)	Can't Hold Out Much Longer
4)	She's the No Sleepinest Woman
5)	Stuff You Gotta Watch, The
6)	Nine Below Zero
7)	I Stay in the Mood
8)	Too Young to Die
9)	Little Girl
10)	Full Court Press
11)	Coolest Cat in This Car, (I'm the)
12)	Iodine in My Coffee
13)	Roller Coaster / Crazy Legs / I Got To Go

Album: Bluestime
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I Got to Find My Baby
2)	Pontiac Blues
3)	Can't Hold Out Much Longer
4)	She's the No Sleepinest Woman
5)	Stuff You Gotta Watch, The
6)	Nine Below Zero
7)	I Stay in the Mood
8)	Too Young to Die
9)	Little Girl
10)	Full Court Press
11)	Coolest Cat in This Car, (I'm the)
12)	Iodine in My Coffee
13)	Roller Coaster / Crazy Legs / I Got To Go

Performer Notes

Personnel: Magic Dick (vocals, harmonica); Jay Geils (guitar, National steel guitar); Jerry Miller (guitar, mandolin); Michael "Mudcat" Ward (acoustic bass, piano); Steve Ramsay (drums).
Recorded at Long View Farm Studios, North Brookfield, Massachusetts. Includes liner notes by David Perry.
The debut issue from two former J. Geils Band members, Bluestime finds Magic Dick and J. Geils still mining their old Chicago blues influences, but with much more depth and sophistication musically. Whereas the J. Geils Band of the '70s would have hammered away at the songs with volume and intensity, Bluestime approaches tunes such as Sonny Boy Williamson's "Pontiac Blues" with a jazz-flavored subtlety. More swinging than rocking, the album proves that both Geils and Magic Dick have lost none of the chops they had in their prime, perhaps even gaining a few over the years. ~ Steve Kurutz

Professional Reviews

Living Blues (1-2/95, p.104) - "...Geils and Magic Dick are excellent musicians who consistently bring new perspectives to old songs, and Dick's newly discovered singing voice is better than might be expected."