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BOB CORRITORE AND FRIENDS - DOIN' THE SHOUT
COMING FEBRUARY 28, 2025, RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY!
BOB CORRITORE & FRIENDS
Doin’ The Shout!
VizzTone
For our readers who live in areas with four different seasons and two of them are bad, February usually has the worst weather of the year. I suggest you celebrate the end of February by seeking out Bob Corritore and Friends Doin’ The Shout! that was released on on February 28th and your home will be filled with rays of musical sunlight that features 36 different musicians in this compilation of a dozen blues tracks.
Here is a sampling of Corritore’s “friends” that are on various tracks of Doin’ The Shout!: Guitarists Duke Robillard, Kid Ramos, John Primer, Jimi “Primetime” Smith, Johnny Main, Johnny Rapp, Dexter Allen, Johnny Burgin, and Bob Margolin. Vocalists include Nora Jean, Francine Reed, Smith, Bob Stroger, Bobby Rush, Tia Carroll, Thornetta Davis, and Oscar Wilson. There are 18 others that are contributing to the backbeat.
Johnny Burgin’s guitar kicks off the band as Thornetta Davis’ vocals sink into “Say Baby Say.” Corritore’s harp enhances this and all the other tunes with just the right amount of his musical skill. Bob Margolin resurrects the soul of Muddy Waters’ slide guitar with his opening licks on “Woman Wanted” as Oscar Wilson’s voice sounds as if it was sung on a long-lost Chess recording indicating that this generation of blues musicians have not only learned from the blues masters but are up to “cutting heads” with their talents as well.
Davis renders a lively vocal take on her “That Don’t Appease Me” and, in this high energy driven song, inserts the phrase “Oh, you can take that line back from where you got it, Baby!” to emphasize the urgency of her lyrics.
Corritore has discovered the desirable formula of combining the right blues tunes with a wonderfully talented assemblage of blues musicians and vocalists for his recordings. Doin’ The Shout! is Corritore’s 30th album and the tracks are gems taken from sessions from the past two years. One outstanding track is “I’ve Got Three Problems,” a Bobby Rush tune with him on vocals. He gives Corritore a shout out by saying, “Hey, Bob, blow that thing and tell me about it!”
Two things I trust will occur: that Bob Corritore will continue to record great future sessions with his talented musician friends and that our readers will immensely enjoy his latest release, Doin’ The Shout! when they obtain their copy of this CD.
– Pete Sardon