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National Steel (album)

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Released
  
8 October 1997

Length
  
50:41

Artist
  
Colin James

Genre
  
Blues

Recorded
  
1997

Label
  
Warner

Release date
  
8 October 1997

Producers
  
Colin James, Colin Linden

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National Steel (1997)
  
Colin James and the Little Big Band II (1999)

Awards
  
Juno Award for Blues Album of the Year

Similar
  
Colin James and the Little, Colin James and the Little, Bad Habits, Sudden Stop, Colin James & The Little

Colin james national steel


National Steel is a blues album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). The album was recorded at Rat's Ass Studios and Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia and mastered at MasterDisk in New York City.

Contents

James teams up with his longtime friend Colin Linden to record a predominantly acoustic album running the gamut from delta blues, to jug band and Chicago blues. The album covers songs written by some of the greatest bluesmen including Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. The CD liner notes offer a brief commentary by James on many of the tracks.

The album is named after the resonator guitar made by the National guitar company, also pictured on the album's cover.

National Steel earned James the 1998 Juno Award for "Best Blues Album".

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Track listing

  1. "Shout Baby Shout" (Yank Rachell) – 3:15
  2. "Rollin' Stone" (Muddy Waters) – 3:21
  3. "National Steel" (Colin James, Daryl Burgess, Christopher Ward) – 4:52
  4. "These Arms of Mine" (Otis Redding) – 4:44
  5. "Going Up to the Country" (Taj Mahal) – 4:11
  6. "Fixin' to Die" (Bukka White) – 4:28
  7. "Somebody Have Mercy" (Sam Cooke) – 3:32
  8. "Postman's Sack" (Tiny Bradshaw) – 1:40
  9. "Please Baby" (Lonnie Chatmon) – 3:41
  10. "Ride & Roll" (Brownie McGhee) – 2:39
  11. "I Live the Life I Love" (Willie Dixon) – 3:39
  12. "My Mind Is On Vacation" (Mose Allison) – 3:34
  13. "Before the Dawn" (Colin Linden) – 4:24
  14. "Kind-Hearted Woman" (Robert Johnson) – 2:41

Personnel

  • Colin James – vocals, guitars
  • Colin Linden – acoustic and slide guitars, mandolin, background vocals
  • Norm Fisher – bass
  • Chris "The Wrist" Norquist – drums and percussion
  • Johnny Ferreira - tenor saxophone
  • Campbell Ryga - alto saxophone
  • James O'Mara - design, photography

    • Songs

    1Shout Baby Shout3:21
    2Rollin' Stone3:26
    3National Steel5:00

    References

    National Steel (album) Wikipedia
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