Mitch Mann - Blackwater Creek (2015)
BAND/ARTIST: Mitch Mann
- Title: Blackwater Creek
- Year Of Release: 2015
- Label: Crazy Chester Records
- Genre: Blues, Country, Folk, Americana
- Quality: flac lossless (tracks)
- Total Time: 00:44:49
- Total Size: 274 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
02. Baby Don't Forget
03. Crows (Intro)
04. Crows
05. St. Louis Blues
06. Make This Last Minute Last
07. More Than I Could Ever Show
08. Sometimes a Rock
09. Blackwater Creek
10. Detour You
11. Hold Her While You Got Her
12. Tom Clark
13. It's Time
14. Good Things
Mitch Mann may not be a name that’s immediately recognizable, but this isn’t because of a lack of involvement on the Alabama blues scene. Mann has been writing and recording for years, lending his guitar (and occasionally voice) to various artists (including The Fiddleworms) and writing and co-writing tracks for others. Mann pulls heavily from his experience specifically as a songwriter on Blackwater Creek, favoring simple, stripped down arrangements that don’t distract from Mann’s melodic turns but still stand strongly on their own. Mann’s preference for sparse recordings might seem like it could wear thin after the album’s fourteen tracks, but the occasional addition of harps, horns, and various other instrumentation helps keep the songwriter’s acoustic guitar formula from getting tired, and by the time “Good Things” wraps up you’ll be satisfied with Mann’s solo effort.
Mann’s brand of Alabama blues definitely isn’t outlaw. Mann coats his southern sound with a type of smooth, clean-cut pleasantness, taking notes from country music (“Hold Her While You Got Her”) and folk (“Make This Last Minute Last”). Mann’s sweetness suffers from feeling a little contrived at times; while “Baby Don’t Forget” offers a different melodic approach than some of the Blackwater Creek’s more straight-forward blues material, the European-inspired track seems to reinforce the smooth blues motif prevalent everywhere else. The album breaks this frame for four minutes in two important places, however. The first is the standout track “Crows,” a dirty southern track with Mann’s best vocal performance on the album, and the second is the album’s title track, which, being an instrumental, changes Blackwater Creek’s focus completely for a few short minutes.
Blackwater Creek isn’t a challenging listen, but it’s not supposed to be. Mitch Mann has spent a lot of time working on other musicians’ albums, and Blackwater Creek is a fitting solo debut from a man who suddenly realized he had enough material and practice to record one. The sincerity on “More than I Could Ever Show,” the local patriotism on “Tom Clark,” and the nostalgia of “St. Louis Blues” all make this album an interesting listen regardless of the occasional contrived moments that surface from time to time.
01. Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad
02. Baby Don't Forget
03. Crows (Intro)
04. Crows
05. St. Louis Blues
06. Make This Last Minute Last
07. More Than I Could Ever Show
08. Sometimes a Rock
09. Blackwater Creek
10. Detour You
11. Hold Her While You Got Her
12. Tom Clark
13. It's Time
14. Good Things
Mitch Mann may not be a name that’s immediately recognizable, but this isn’t because of a lack of involvement on the Alabama blues scene. Mann has been writing and recording for years, lending his guitar (and occasionally voice) to various artists (including The Fiddleworms) and writing and co-writing tracks for others. Mann pulls heavily from his experience specifically as a songwriter on Blackwater Creek, favoring simple, stripped down arrangements that don’t distract from Mann’s melodic turns but still stand strongly on their own. Mann’s preference for sparse recordings might seem like it could wear thin after the album’s fourteen tracks, but the occasional addition of harps, horns, and various other instrumentation helps keep the songwriter’s acoustic guitar formula from getting tired, and by the time “Good Things” wraps up you’ll be satisfied with Mann’s solo effort.
Mann’s brand of Alabama blues definitely isn’t outlaw. Mann coats his southern sound with a type of smooth, clean-cut pleasantness, taking notes from country music (“Hold Her While You Got Her”) and folk (“Make This Last Minute Last”). Mann’s sweetness suffers from feeling a little contrived at times; while “Baby Don’t Forget” offers a different melodic approach than some of the Blackwater Creek’s more straight-forward blues material, the European-inspired track seems to reinforce the smooth blues motif prevalent everywhere else. The album breaks this frame for four minutes in two important places, however. The first is the standout track “Crows,” a dirty southern track with Mann’s best vocal performance on the album, and the second is the album’s title track, which, being an instrumental, changes Blackwater Creek’s focus completely for a few short minutes.
Blackwater Creek isn’t a challenging listen, but it’s not supposed to be. Mitch Mann has spent a lot of time working on other musicians’ albums, and Blackwater Creek is a fitting solo debut from a man who suddenly realized he had enough material and practice to record one. The sincerity on “More than I Could Ever Show,” the local patriotism on “Tom Clark,” and the nostalgia of “St. Louis Blues” all make this album an interesting listen regardless of the occasional contrived moments that surface from time to time.
Blues | Country | Folk | FLAC / APE
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