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Devon Allman - Ragged & Dirty (2014) [Hi-Res]

Devon Allman - Ragged & Dirty (2014) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Devon Allman

  • Title: Ragged & Dirty
  • Year Of Release: 2014
  • Label: Ruf Records
  • Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +Booklet
  • Total Time: 00:47:59
  • Total Size: 314 / 561 mb
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Tracklist

01. Half the Truth
02. Can't Lose 'Em All
03. Leavin'
04. I'll Be Around
05. Traveling
06. Midnight Lake Michigan
07. Ten Million Slaves
08. Blackjack Heartattack
09. Back to You
10. Times Have Changed
11. Ragged & Dirty
12. Leave the City

The dirty blond hair is the same, the body posture is also the same, and there are touches in the voice that have a similar genetic connection, but Devon Allman has toiled long and hard to establish his own musical identity, separate from his mega-famous dad, Gregg Allman.

For Ragged & Dirty, Devon left his Southern comfort zone, hired a crack Chicago band, and enlisted the producing and writing talents of Grammy winning producer Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, George Thorogood, Johnny Winter, James Cotton, Joe Louis Walker).

Though Hambridge wrote four tunes and Devon picked three to cover, it’s his original tunes that speak to his artistic journey.

To hear how a groove takes over, check out the spontaneity of his “Midnight Lake Michigan.” Devon’s dark and ominous guitar howls push the nine-minute instrumental with a hoodoo aura. As the tension builds, the song adds Marty Sammon’s keyboards and Tom Hambridge’s percussion in a swirl of primal rhythms.

To hear Devon’s vocal range, listen to the CD closer, “Leave The City.” With only Hambridge keepin’ the sparse beat, Devon strips down and shows off his pleading, Allman-esque voice and stirring resonator guitar in this move to country blues simplicity.

Luther Allison’s “Ragged & Dirty” is a funk meets blues that provides Devon’s hot-shot Chicago studio band of bassist Felton Crews (Charlie Musselwhite and others), guitarist Giles Corey (Billy Branch), and keyboard ace Marty Sammon (Buddy Guy) along with Nashville’s Hambridge on drums room to show-off. Allman’s “Leavin’” provides the band the opportunity to play with a subdued delicacy, while “Back To You” builds from Devon’s expressive solo over Sammon’s B-3 foundation into a blistering slow blues ballad. There’s an expressive side to Devon as he and Wendy Moten handle the Spinner’s classy “I’ll Be Around.” And Devon’s cover of Otis Taylor’s haunting “Ten Million Slaves” commands our attention to bear witness to our historic injustices.




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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for HD tracks.
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  • toeoet
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Thanks for Hi-Res
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