Boney Fields & The Bone's Project - We Play The Blues (2006)

Like some giants of the Blues, this pure product from Chicago has made things big and good, just to leave his mark on the blues year 2006: a beautiful cover BD style, thirteen titles for almost 70 minutes zik full speakers, and a bunch of talented guests including Jean Jacques Milteau, Martha High, Corey Harris, Lucky Peterson, Fred Wesley and others whose name will grow over the coming months, like the great Mike Armoogum on the bass, where the dazzling Hervé Samb on six strings.

Faithful to his wild fishing and exceptional showman side, Boney Fields fires your turn with titles that smack of funky blues and soul, like Get up and stand out, Never fall on your face, and of course I wanna get funky. The brass makes you pitch, in perfect harmony with the Boney singer and trumpet-maestro, training you in a blues overflowing with energy (positive) and joy (to live). Notable, the excellent We play the Blues (stamped Boney Fields), the punchy Your good thing is about to run out, signed Lucky Peterson / Jim Payne, with Lucky Peterson himself on guitar solo, and the slow steam of this galette Do not let it get you down, on which Boney will make you shiver in his crooner's voice; Guaranteed emotion if you can climb a little the sound, the night fell, with these gleaming brass and a superb Jerry Leonide keyboards. But the title that closes the album is for me THE title of this super CD, the version not to be missed of this standard that is got to move, and on which, excuse the master of the place, you find in his company Lucky Peterson, Corey Harris and Jean Jacques Milteau.

A title interpreted by a quartet of hell that alone is worth the immediate purchase of this album, one of the essentials of this mid-year. ~Frankie Bluesy Pfeiffer