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Bill Wyman: Double Bill

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Label: Ripple Records
Released: 2001.06.26
Time:
 48:10 / 42:18
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD Double
Web address: www.billwyman.com
Appears with: The Rolling Stones
Purchase date: 2003.10.05
Price in €: 10,99



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CD One:
[1] Long Walk to D.C. (Banks/Thomas)- 4:05
[2] Hot Foot Blues (Benno)- 5:16
[3] Hit That Jive Jack (Alston/Tolbert)- 3:35
[4] Love Letters (Heyman/Young)- 3:36
[5] Love's Down the Drain (Wyman/Taylor)- 5:23
[6] I Can't Dance (Williams/Gains)- 4:23
[7] Medley: Snap You Fingers/What a Friend We Have in Jeusus (Martin/Zanetis - Trag. arr. Wyman/Fame)- 3:15
[8] Get in the Kitchen (Wyman/Taylor)- 2:22
[9] Boogie Woogie All Night Long (Louis Jordan)- 3:49
[10] Medley: Do You or Don't You/I Wanna Know (Lutcher - Fame)- 3:31
[11] Trust in Me (Ager/Schwarz/Wever)- 4:12
[12] Turn on Your Lovelight (Malone/Scott)- 4:43

CD Two:
[1] The Joint Is Jumpin' (Razaf/Waller)- 3:03
[2] Brownskin Girl (Wyman/Taylor)- 3:57
[3] Tired and Sleepy (E&H Cochran/Capeheart)- 3:22
[4] Lonely Blue Boy (Weismann/Wise)- 3:28
[5] Bye Bye Blues (Hamm/Bennett/Lown/Gray)- 3:19
[6] Where's the Money (Dan Hicks)- 3:50
[7] Jellyroll Fool (Wyman/Taylor)- 3:21
[8] Jealous Girl (Trad. arr. Wyman/Taylor)- 3:29
[9] My Handy Man (Razaf/Blake)- 3:51
[10] Rollin' and Stumblin' (Wyman/Taylor)- 3:47
[11] Keep on Truckin' (Wyman/Taylor)- 3:32
[12] Breakin' Up the House (Mann/Glover)- 3:19

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BILL WYMAN - Bass, Arranger, Vocals, Background Vocals, Producer, Liner Notes, Vocal Arrangement, Horn Arrangements

TERRY NORMAN TAYLOR - Acoustic, Rhythm & Slide Guitar, Arranger, Background Vocals, Producer
GEORGIE FAME - Organ, Arranger, Vocals, Background Vocals
ALBERT LEE - Guitar, Vocals
CHRIS REA - Slide Guitar
TOMMY EMMANUEL - Acoustic, Electric, Slide & Tremolo Guitar
MARTIN TAYLOR - Guitar, Mandolin
DEREK WATKINS - Horn
GARY BROOKER - Piano, Vocals, Background Vocals
ANDY FAIRWEATHER-LOW - Guitar, Vocals, Background Vocals, National Steel Guitar
PETE BEACHILL - Horn
GRAHAM BROAD - Percussion, Drums
RAY COOPER - Percussion
MARTIN DITCHAM - Percussion
ANDY MACINTOSH - Horn
FRANK MEAD - Horn, Saxophone
NICK PAYN - Harmonica, Horn, Saxophone, Horn Arrangements
NICK PENTELOW - Horn
FRANK RICOTTI - Percussion
GEOFF GRANGE - Harmonica
DAVID HARTLEY - Piano

BEVERLEY SKEETE - Vocals, Background Vocals, Vocal Arrangement
KEELY SMITH - Background Vocals
ANITA KELSEY - Vocals, Background Vocals
JANICE HOYTE - Background Vocals
ZOE NICHOLAS - Background Vocals

STUART EPPS - Engineer
BRIAN TENCH - Mixing Engineer
TIM YOUNG - Mastering

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2001 CD Ripple Records 8287



On 2001's Double Bill, Bill Wyman uses two well-packed discs to prove again what he had always previously managed to make clear on a single LP: He's a monster bass player and a mediocre (at best) singer who relies on his many famous friends to help him out. The friends this time range from George Harrison (who adds slide guitar to the somnambulant blues "Love Letters") to vocal jazz legend Keely Smith, tragically underused on too few backing vocal parts. The 24 tracks on Double Bill sound like the work of a perfectly competent band working at some nondescript House of Blues-type pseudo-juke joint, the kind of place where the music is as inauthentic and geared toward inoffensiveness as the food. Double Bill isn't really a bad album — it's frankly too boring for that — but it's frustrating when one considers what the principals could be doing with themselves.

Stewart Mason - All Music Guide
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No doubt sporting a wry grin when he decided to call this two-CD set Double Bill, the old Stones bassist is further consolidating his second roll. Wyman's done well from old material since 1997 and this project is even more explicitly nostalgic, involving a very thorough excavation of his record collection. The tune-choices are admirably diverse, avoiding predictable selections. Wyman rotates his trio of lead vocalists and calls up soloists from his impressive lead guitar pool. The Rhythm Kings band is now a road-hogging concern, turning into a combo with the rapport that's only found out on tour. The old-time styles all emanate from a blues base but also embrace Staple Singers gospel, Louis Jordan jump jive and Etta James throat-burning. The start of disc two best illustrates this genre-jumping attitude, flouncing through jazz, country, rock'n'roll and operatic swamp-pop soul balladry, all in the first four tracks. With guitarists Albert Lee, Martin Taylor, Andy Fairweather Low and a sweetly hovering George Harrison on board, nearly all the set's solos are string-sprung. These never outstay their welcome, keeping things concise and pointed. Wyman also contributes six originals, mostly delivered in his own gruff-deadpan slither, making a good contrast with the dominant mood of vocal slickness. Of the singers, Beverley Skeete sometimes adopts too much of a vibrato warble and the voice of Georgie Fame is a taste not easily acquired by some, leaving the husky-throated Gary Brooker to deliver most of the best lines. The backing chorus vocals are invariably too smoothly harmonised, almost sounding like The Andrews Sisters. Actually, the strongest vocal take comes courtesy of Adrian Byron-Burns, rasping heartily through Wyman's own "Rollin' & Stumblin'". Overall, the low-reverb production style will be far too prissy for most lovers of low-down dirty boogie, tending towards a certain stiff-upper-lipped bluesology. Full marks for the repertoire and technique, though.

Martin Longley - Amazon.co.uk
 

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