Name: Cotton Mouth Man
Brand: ALLIGATOR RECORDS
SKU: 31732041
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Cotton Mouth Man

Rating

Album: Cotton Mouth Man
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Cotton Mouth Man	More Info...
2)	Midnight Train	More Info...
3)	Mississippi Mud	More Info...
4)	He Was There	More Info...
5)	Something For Me	More Info...
6)	Wrapped Around My Heart	More Info...
7)	Saint On Sunday	More Info...
8)	Hard Sometimes	More Info...
9)	Young Bold Women	More Info...
10)	Bird Nest On The Ground	More Info...
11)	Wasn't My Time To Go	More Info...
12)	Blues Is Good For You	More Info...
13)	Bonnie Blue	More Info...
2)	Midnight Train	More Info...	0:03
3)	Mississippi Mud	More Info...	0:04
4)	He Was There	More Info...	0:03
5)	Something for Me	More Info...	0:03
6)	Wrapped Around My Heart	More Info...	0:03
7)	Ain't On Sunday	More Info...	0:03
8)	Hard Sometimes	More Info...	0:03
9)	Young Bold Women	More Info...	0:03
10)	Bird Nest On the Ground	More Info...	0:04
11)	Wasn't My Time to Go	More Info...	0:04
12)	Blues Is Good for You	More Info...	0:04
13)	Bonnie Blue	More Info...	0:03

Album: Cotton Mouth Man
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Cotton Mouth Man	More Info...
2)	Midnight Train	More Info...
3)	Mississippi Mud	More Info...
4)	He Was There	More Info...
5)	Something For Me	More Info...
6)	Wrapped Around My Heart	More Info...
7)	Saint On Sunday	More Info...
8)	Hard Sometimes	More Info...
9)	Young Bold Women	More Info...
10)	Bird Nest On The Ground	More Info...
11)	Wasn't My Time To Go	More Info...
12)	Blues Is Good For You	More Info...
13)	Bonnie Blue	More Info...
2)	Midnight Train	More Info...	0:03
3)	Mississippi Mud	More Info...	0:04
4)	He Was There	More Info...	0:03
5)	Something for Me	More Info...	0:03
6)	Wrapped Around My Heart	More Info...	0:03
7)	Ain't On Sunday	More Info...	0:03
8)	Hard Sometimes	More Info...	0:03
9)	Young Bold Women	More Info...	0:03
10)	Bird Nest On the Ground	More Info...	0:04
11)	Wasn't My Time to Go	More Info...	0:04
12)	Blues Is Good for You	More Info...	0:04
13)	Bonnie Blue	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

Audio Mixers: Michael Saint-Leon; Tom Hambridge.
Recording information: Carriage House, Stamford, CT; Elevated Basement, Savannah, GA; Sound Stage Studio, Nashville, TN; Wire Recording, Austin, TX.
Photographer: Christopher Durst.
Blues harp maestro James Cotton was 77 at the time of this album's release. He can barely sing anymore, and the years of playing and touring have left his voice a hoarse croak, but make no mistake, he can still play the harp, and his stunning, overdriven blasts on the instrument are as powerful and as immediate as ever. He's the living embodiment of the Chicago blues, and one of the genre's last surviving founders of it, having mentored with the great Sonny Boy Williamson, and he recorded, played, and toured with Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, cutting his first sides at the age of 19 for Chess Records. He's done this a long time, and as this delightful, joyous, stomping, and vibrant set shows, he doesn't need to sing to command the stage. Cotton wrote or co-wrote most of the songs here with the album's producer, Tom Hambridge, and the vocals are handled by guest artists, most of them by Darrell Nulisch, the former Texas Heat and Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets vocalist who has been handling the singing duties for Cotton's band for some time now, but Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Ruthie Foster, Delbert McClinton, and Keb' Mo' are also featured singers. But this isn't one of those duets albums that artists make in the twilight of their careers by any shot -- Cotton is amazing on these cuts, his harp blasts full of passion, power, and enough pure energy to light up the night sky. Cotton may not do somersaults on stage anymore, but his harp lines do, weaving in and out of these songs like a charging Chicago freight train. There isn't a single lame cut here, but the closer, "Bonnie Blue," with Cotton croaking out a moving vocal accompanied only by his harp and the resonator guitar playing of Colin Linden, is particularly poignant. Cotton may be cruising in on 80 years of age, but he's just released one of the best albums of his career. ~ Steve Leggett

Professional Reviews

Mojo (Publisher) (p.89) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Cotton plays with huge power and feeling and, for all the great help, there's never any doubt whose album it is."