Released May 8, 2007 Length 48:48 Artist James Blood Ulmer Producer Vernon Reid Genre Blues | Recorded 2006 Bad Blood in the City The Piety Street Sessions
(2007) In and Out
(2009) Release date 8 May 2007 Label HYENA Records | |
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Similar Birthright, Memphis Blood: The Sun Sess, No Escape from the Blues: Th, Blue Blood, Blues Preacher | ||
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in New Orleans at the Piety Street Recording Studios and released on the Hyena label in 2007.
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The creative place Blood finds himself in his partnership with Reid is yielding great fruit. This album is the strongest of their collaborations thus far, and is a wild ride through blues, R&B, and hard-driving distorted and feedback-laced — yet utterly musical — New Orleans funk. It's a monster".
Track listing
All compositions by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated- "Survivors of the Hurricane" - 3:53
- "Sad Days, Lonely Nights" (Junior Kimbrough) – 5:59
- "Katrina" – 3:46
- "Let's Talk About Jesus" – 4:19
- "This Land Is Nobody's Land" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:18
- "Dead Presidents" (Willie Dixon, William R. Emerson) – 4:40
- "Commit a Crime" (Chester Burnett) – 5:21
- "Grinnin' in Your Face" (Eddie J. House Jr.) – 4:36
- "There Is Power in the Blues" – 2:28
- "Backwater Blues" (Traditional) – 5:52
- "Old Slave Master" – 2:36
Personnel
Songs
1Survivors of the Hurricane3:54
2Sad Days - Lonely Nights6:00
3Katrina3:47
References
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