Rip Cat Records artist: Lisa Cee - My Turn - New Release Review

I just received the debut release, My Turn, by Lisa Cee and there are some hot riffs in here! The recording opens with a blues rocker, What Good Am I, along the lines of Messin' With the Kid. This track, featuring Cee vocal talents with heavy influence of R&B, gets the listener energized and ready for what's to come. Fire In The Sky has a funky beat and BR Millon takes a real nice guitar solo displaying great tone. Ron Dzuibla pushes up the bottom with his sax on this track. Lost You, a soulful bluesy ballad is up next giving Cee a great opportunity to lay it all out there and she does a really nice job. Scott Abeyta and Millon play some real soulful guitar riffs on this track. Good-Bye Babyhas a solid Texas boogie style and again Abeyta and Millon team up to play some really hot guitar riffs. Fire is a really funky track with Dzuibla adding some over the top sax riffs on a cooking bass track laid down by Mike Hightower. My Turn is a quiet ballad with minimal accompaniment. A track that is highly airplay friendly with Abeyta adding nice slide guitar work. Cee does an interesting take on I'll Take You There, adding a little jazz and a little Latin guitar to an already swinging gospel style track. Likely the best overall track on the release, Right Man opens with a real nice harp solo from Johnny Mastro. A swinging blues track, gives Mastro the opportunity to stretch out a bit and Cee's voice is as comfortable on this track as most anywhere on the release. Stop Trying, a short radio player is again driven buy the funky bottom of Hightower and with drums by Albert Trepagnier Jr. Millon rips some strong accents on guitar on this track as well. Blues ballad Bright Shiny World, is strongly constructed along the lines of Albert Kings, As The Years Go Passing By. Cee shows her natural talent as a vocalist on this track, with some smooth B3 action by Edo Guidotti and nice ripping guitar work from Millon. Cold Hearted Woman takes a march down Bourbon Street with smart jazz march drumming from Trepagnier Jr. Millon again has a real nice spot to show his touch as a guitarist, not dominating the track but very tasty. Evil Mind has that smokey, funky R&B sound and Cee blends her voice nicely into the mix. Again I like the quiet soloing of Millon under the tune carried by Hightower and Trepagnier Jr. who also add backing vocals. Cee steps into the mist covering a sacred cow, White Rabbit (Grace Slick). She does a nice job on this track and the horn work of Dziubla is really cool. Already Free is a solid acoustic style vocal ballad with Chris McCarthy on cello. This is not a blues track but I think it may be my favorite vocal work on the release. All in all a very interesting release.
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Kiss Me When I Kiss - Whiteboy James and The Blues Express feat. Catfish

Something amazing happens the moment you witness a White Boy James show. You’ll either: Tap your toes maniacally. Dance until the soles burn off your shoes. Or both.

Having just completed their second album, Whiteboy James and the Blues Express are a detonative force to be reckoned with. Since reuniting in 2006 after a five year absence, the crew has reestablished themselves as the legendary band they were during the Southern California blues explosion of the ’80s and ’90s. Whiteboy James brings a mesmerizing, driving and sonic stage presence to the table. Combine that with three gifted, well-seasoned musicians…and chances are, chairs at one of their shows simply won’t be necessary.

James Page was born in Compton, California and spent most of his formative years bouncing around sunny Southern California. As a youngster, he listened to whatever music he could get his hands on. But his musical influences changed radically when he first heard his uncle’s Deep South rhythm & blues and country vinyl. Although “Whiteboy” found it difficult to fit into the Southern California “Beach Boy” culture by which he was surrounded, his heart, soul and ears were dialed into the likes of Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Sam “Lightning” Hopkins, and Big Joe Turner – as well as the usual suspects: Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Wills and even Spike Jones.

By the mid 1980s, also known as the peak of the Southern Californian blues explosion, blues bands were forming everywhere — from garages and backyard parties to all night blues jams in various beer-soaked nightclubs. During this time, “Whiteboy” James had several tunes in his repertoire and was willing and ready to sit in, sing, jam, crush and blow some harmonic sounds with whoever had the “cajones” to invite him up on stage. And good thing, too, because his tenacity paid off in spades. A few of the takers included The Mighty Flyers, William Clarke, James Harman, The Blasters (Phil and Dave Alvin), Johnny Dyre, Joe Houston, Little Charlie and the Night Cats, Top Jimmy and Juke Logan, to name just a few.

It was at one of these jams that the original Blues Express was formed. Soon thereafter, this raucous foursome was jamming, gigging and grinding all over the Southern California blues circuit. “Whiteboy” James became quite the buzz on blues stages and dance floors across the southland. People couldn’t ignore this entertaining “jump and jive” madman who, not unlike his boyhood hero Cab Calloway, strutted the stage leading a top blues band, but dressed in a trench coat (as opposed to Cab Calloway’s tux and tails – talk about a dichotomy!) ”Whiteboy” James and the Blues Express continued to play throughout the 1990s and after a well-deserved break, they’re back and as unruly as ever. Simply put, you don’t “listen” to “Whiteboy” James and the Blues Express. You experience it. You feel it. You dance on a lot of broken glass.
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