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Jim Byrnes - Fresh Horses

Jim Byrnes - Fresh Horses Blues

Jim Byrnes - Fresh Horses

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February 2004 saw the release of Jim's latest project, "Fresh Horses" on Black Hen Music. This new recording is the result of a musical meeting between Jim and Steve Dawson (of Zubot & Dawson). Jim and Steve realized they shared common tastes in music and realized that a collaboration between Jim and the Zubot and Dawson band would be a refreshing and exciting project. In Jim's words, "Early bluesmen were really 'songsters' who interspersed their blues with spirituals, popular music, folk songs, anything to get the crowd to take note, and I suppose that's how I cast myself when I began my career. In the spring of 2003, Steve Dawson approached me about the possibility of a collaboration and I leapt at the opportunity to create a musical dialogue with the very finest players of a whole new generation; sort of fathers and sons, you know? It's been a long hard road and so 'Yahoo, thank the Lord', I thought, 'fresh horses'." The goal of this project was to stay true to Jim's roots and influences, but to take the music in some new and innovative directions, while keeping the sounds of the acoustic instruments front and center. The musicians holed up in a Vancouver recording studio for 3 days, and in that short time, "Fresh Horses" was born. They started with some of Jim's original material (The soulful "Just a Pilgrim" and "12 Questions"), and then chose some blues standards (Muddy Waters' churning "I Can't Be Satisfied"), brought in some songs not usually associated with blues singers (notably Neil Young's "For the Turnstiles" and Bob Dylan's "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"), threw in a couple of traditional country-blues tunes (The Mississippi Shieks' "I've Got Blood in My Eyes For You" and the haunting "East Virginia") and an instrumental of Steve's written for Jim ("Fresh Horses"). The result is an exciting recording of deep soul, blazing musicianship, and a youthful spirit that brings Jim's extraordinary talents to life. What People Are Saying ...
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Release Date:
2015-04-29
Publication Date:
2015-04-29
Publisher:
Black Hen
Languages:
Original: English
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