TOMORROWS, RIVERS, YESTERFUTURES AND SUITE BLUES.

Wayblackmemories, history and the back and forth motion of cultural well being. The BLUES has a long and honorable tradition dating back to its origins as the essential vector of African American sensibility and identity. Canadian blues artists, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley honor the blues tradition in their Blues Suite, “Scrap Metal Blues” by bringing us fully into the realm of 21st century blues expressivity.

Opening with the Nubian Queen blues song, “Rockin Nubian” the unique musical ensemble establishes a necessary link to the Nile River as this CD evokes the Mississippi, and other rich blues sites.

Along the musical journey with Braithwaite and Whiteley we learn what it means to experience “Wellington County”, as well as the “Hawaii Blues” and even the memorable “Manitoba Flood.”

A warm and haunting blues that lingers on in your memory is the composition, “Sit Down on the Back Porch”

For those who appreciate the rich Boogie Woogie tradition in Jazz and Blues, you will find “Boogie train” a passage to some next classic blues experience.

Honoring those who made their living working hard in scrap yards, we are now fully appreciative of those who tirelessly do what has to be done in a world not guaranteeing the easiest path.

This is the blues with all of its variety, ethical and escathalogical.

James G. Spadey - Philadelphia Pa.

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