  Catfish lets his guitar do all the talking! String snapping toe
tappers mix with down and dirty slide ditties to create a very timeless
blues disc.
In the artist's words...
Alright! This new album, my eighth, is a departure for
me, and in another way it’s like coming back home where I started. I’ve
always loved fingerstyle guitar. Even before I knew you could play all
of that guitar, by yourself, I just loved the sound. About three
decades ago, before I started to sing and play, I was just a picker. I
went nuts discovering all kinds of great American music, and then
started to sing too. On this album, I’m just picking again (with the
occasional grunt or gasp). Lots of blues and jazz string-twanging like
in the opener, Fistful of Riffs based on Lonnie Johnson and Eddie Lang,
a new version of the original Mr. Catfish’s Advice and kind of a
fingerstyle version of a Hawaiian guitar piece, Kohala March. There’s
open-tuned slide guitar on the Baritone National on Freckles, Hawaiian
Cowboy, Dark Was the Night and Motherless Children. Love that Baritone!
Some of the pieces have a Caribbean feel; Gonna Live That Life is
adapted from Joseph Spence’s version. Down-Island Annie is a syncopated
version of the old fiddle tune, Ragtime Annie. There’s some real
finger-tanglers on here too like 12th St. Rag and the old New Orleans
piece, High Society.
~ ~ Catfish Keith
“Raging slide guitar, intricate fingerpicking”
~ ~ Living Blues Review
“Pulling Blues Out of the sky. One of the most exciting guitarists of any genre.”
~ ~ Acoustic Guitar Magazine
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A Fist Full Of Riffs
Mr. Catfish’s Advice
Kohala March
Kauaiian Cowboy
Freckles
Gonna Live That Life
High Society
Knockin Myself Out
Motherless Children
Down Island Annie
Way Out West
Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground
12th Street Rag |
| Artist: |
Catfish Keith |
| Product Type: |
AMR CDs |
| Item #: |
SACD2011 |
| Price: |
$15.00 |
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