Show Me the Way Home, Honey

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men - Yes, I Believe I Will

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 42:40
Size: 97.7 MB
Styles: Roots, Folk-blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:24] 1. I Had A Notion
[2:56] 2. Walk On Boy
[3:45] 3. Keep Your Lamps Trimmed And Burning
[6:15] 4. Country Blues (Hustling Gamblers)
[4:20] 5. Future Blues
[4:34] 6. Wasted Mind
[4:05] 7. Mr. Blue
[4:07] 8. Devil's Side
[4:03] 9. I Know You Rider
[4:07] 10. Rake And Rambling Blade


Steve Howell has created a gentle, Deep South-inspired acoustic troubadour daydream that is sure to appeal to a diverse set of country, blues and roots music fans. ~Living Blues

The blues evolved from solo acoustic music to include a wide stylistic umbrella. It is therefore cause for celebration when a contemporary artist opts to stake his emotional investment in timeless traditions resulting in deeply nuanced music. Initially inspired by Mississippi John Hurt, master Texas acoustic guitarist and singer Steve Howell performs a range of soulful music burning with an inner flame growing brighter with each listening, while revealing layers of expression often lost in high decibel electric blues.

His fourth release finds him in the estimable company of his friends Chris Michaels (electric and acoustic guitars, bass), Dave Hoffpauir (drums) and Jason Weinheimer (keyboards) who once backed the late, renowned Jim Dickinson. A unique set of ten modern and prewar covers constitutes an extraordinary musical ramble. The mid-tempo country blues “I Had a Notion” (1976) immediately confirms his true blues creds as a guitarist and singer as he casts an evocative rural spell on the Terry Garthwaite tune containing the line “Yes, I believe I will.” “Walk on Boy” (1960) by Mel Tillis has a lilting, olde tyme feel enhanced by nimble picking , the uncommonly supple groove of Hoffpauir and the fluid electric licks from Michaels in a classic country boast with lyrics like “Well, I left my mammy and pappy, just about the age of ten. I got me a job, workin’ on the levee, totin’ water for the hard workin’ men.” A somber mood is evinced on the shuffling “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning” (1928) by the legendary bottlenecker Blind Willie Johnson who sang sacred and secular music. Howell burrows into the profound Bible lyrics with his richly expressive tenor while Michaels first echoes the melody before improvising a raw, distortedsolo in dynamic contrast. On the“lonesome” lyrics of Dock Boggs’ melancholy, minor key “Country Blues” (1927), Howell “lives” through the dark temptations of life, the intertwining acoustic and electric guitars producing a web of swirling feelings.

Yes, I Believe I Will

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