Al Basile Me And The Originator (CD)

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(Sweetspot) 25 tracks - produced by Duke Robillard Al Basile: For the 20th anniversary of my... more

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Al Basile: Me And The Originator (CD)

(Sweetspot) 25 tracks - produced by Duke Robillard

Al Basile: For the 20th anniversary of my Sweetspot label, I wanted to do something different. Inspired by the running narrative between the songs on Louis Armstrong: My Musical Biography, I decided to tell a story about an imaginary musician who found lyrics, set music to them, but never admitted he didn't write the words after he got famous. It's a story about blues songs – how they came to be, and who can claim them as theirs, that speaks to the history of the music as we've inherited it. The story is told by the narration and the songs working together.

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Interpret: Al Basile
Album titlle: Me And The Originator (CD)
Genre Blues
Label Sweetspot Records
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0669469098623
weight in Kg 0.1

Basile, Al - Me And The Originator (CD) CD 1
01	The Trunk	Al Basile
02	Poor Boy's Day	Al Basile
03	What He Carried	Al Basile
04	My J-O-B	Al Basile
05	Useless Good Advice	Al Basile
06	Lefty's Nine Lessons	Al Basile
07	Self Reliance	Al Basile
08	She Made Me Believe It	Al Basile
09	The Bee's Lot	Al Basile
10	Here Come Your Trouble	Al Basile
11	What He Deserved	Al Basile
12	I Forgot How To Care	Al Basile
13	Learn To Draw	Al Basile
14	First One To Go	Al Basile
15	Breaking Up Is Hard To Do	Al Basile
16	What You Got For Me	Al Basile
17	Who Owns It	Al Basile
18	All Right	Al Basile
19	Solo	Al Basile
20	A Go Of It	Al Basile
21	Young And Old	Al Basile
22	So Wrong For So Long	Al Basile
23	Confessing The Blues	Al Basile
24	If It Goes, It Goes	Al Basile
25	How It Goes	Al Basile

Al Basile grew up in a park in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He graduated... more

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"Al Basile"

Al Basile grew up in a park in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1966, and in 1970 he was the first to receive a Master’s Degree from the Brown University Writing Program. He began his musical career as a cornet player with Roomful of Blues in 1973, and has worked with the Duke Robillard Band as a songwriter and recording member since 1990, appearing on twelve CDs and a DVD; his songs have been used in films and television and covered by such artists as Ruth Brown and Johnny Rawls, and bands New Jump Blues and the Knickerbocker All Stars.

He has fifteen solo blues and roots CDs out under his own name, the majority having reached the top 15 on the Living Blues airplay charts in their year of release. They have all been produced by Robillard and feature his guitar playing and many former Roomful members: guest artists have included the Blind Boys of Alabama, jazz great Scott Hamilton, and the late Sista Monica Parker. He has been nominated seven times since 2010 for a Blues Music Award as best horn player; his 2016 CD Mid-Century Modern was nominated as Best Contemporary Blues Album. He is also a prize-winning poet, with two published books, 2011's A Lit House and 2017's Tonesmith. He taught full time at the Providence Country Day School in East Providence, RI from 1980-2005 and since then has concentrated on his writing, performing, and recording.

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