So you’re thinking “what’s with this guy and soundtracks?” I stand with my last statement that soundtracks in their own suckish nature sucks. In Can’s case I made an exception and acknowledged that soundtracks can indeed be good. This time it’s up to Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez to tell me I’m wrong.
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Continuing with my Junior Kimbrough reviews, I’d like to follow up with blues legend Buddy Guy’s cover album. It’s not entirely Junior Kimbrough, but mostly. It’s actually not entirely a cover album, but mostly. The name ‘Sweet tea’ is from the Oxford, Mississippi based studio ‘Sweet tea’ and the album is thus engineered and mixed by Dennis Herring (The Hives among others).
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I didn’t know Scarlett Johansson was an actor (some say an actress -ed.) before I heard this and I’m glad I didn’t, actors are phonies and can’t make music. They should stick with what they know, earn more money than they deserve by doing crappy american movies before retiring to doing even crappier sitcoms.
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When I first lerned that superknown actress Scarlett Johansson had gone into the album making business I was immediately interested. I do like the pretentious girls, I won’t lie about that. But I was also a bit suspicious. Crossing between acting and music making is not known to be a great mixture, there are known examples of lame attempts.
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Black Keys is a band cursed to be compared to the White Stripes. For me there’s no comparison, Black Keys eats the Stripes for breakfast. Chulahoma is fellow fat possum Junior Kimbrough’s hometown so it just makes sense that this is a Junior-only cover album.
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Junior Kimbrough has been declared a legend, in my eyes solely because of Fat Possum, the record label that more or less resurrected and reinvented the blues at a time when it was if not dead, dead boring. I’m a big fan of this raw, gritty move from smoochy love singing blues that better fits Frank Sinatra.
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