Lurrie Bell - 700 Blues

By seventeen, Lurrie was playing on stage with Willie Dixon. Not only was Lurrie quickly recognized as an exceptionally gifted guitarist and musician, but his knowledge of different blues styles, his soulfulness and musical maturity brought write-ups in publications such as Rolling Stone and The New York Times. When only nineteen, Lurrie went out on the road with Koko Taylor for four years. His next role was a founding member of Son of the Blues with Willie Dixon’s son Freddie and harmonicist Billy Branch. At a time when most other young blues guitarists, both black and white, were favoring the rock-blues "guitar hero" style, made popular by the likes of Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lurrie's playing has always followed more in the traditional style of such blues greats as B.B. King, Otis Rush, Magic Sam and Eddie Taylor. For Lurrie, it has never been about how many notes he could play or how fast he could play them. Rather, it's always been about the music, and more specifically, about the blues. Above all, whatever style or flavor Lurrie chooses to draw from, it is his own sound that rules.

The vocalist/guitarist shows new facets in his blues talents, inc. his skills at smooth-swinging T-Bone-esque guitar, feat. Ken Saydak, Harlan Terson, Kenny Smith + 2 songs w. guitarist Dave Specter.


Track list:

1. I've Got Papers on You Baby (King / Taub) - 5:27
2. How Many More Years (Howlin' Wolf) - 4:47
3. All Over Again (Adams / King) - 7:42
4. 700 Blues (Bell) - 3:26
5. She Walks Right In (Byrd) - 3:50
6. Honey Bee (Waters) - 4:56
7. You Got to Stop This Mess (Luandrew) - 3:36
8. Found Love (Reed) - 5:00
9. Million Miles from Nowhere (Petty) - 6:26
10. You Got Me Dizzy (Abner / Reed) - 3:35
11. I'm Your 44 (Bell / Foogde) - 4:10
12. Sadie (Taylor) - 3:41
13. Baby Take It Easy (Brown / Roby) - 4:16