The tour through the Root 70 catalogue continued today with the 2010
release, Listen to Your Woman – an all-blues outing and part 2 of
the conceptual works. When I studied with Hayden in Greece during
2009 he mentioned this up coming recording and played me a little bit
of the boogie piece he was writing (the albums opener, “Rusty
Bagpipe Boogie”). This is the first , and only, Root 70 album to
contain compositions from each of the members.
It had been a while
since I had listened to Bernie McGann, and 1966 had been on my list
for a while now. Bernie is so distinctive and Kim Paterson is
under-recorded (or at least I’m missing out on albums I don’t
know about!) and it’s the earliest recording I have heard from all
involved
The fidelity isn’t
the greatest – totally listenable though - and the music and
historical importance more than makes up for it. Great energy
throughout.
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