Hyena; 2007
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Joshua Klein
; June 7, 2007
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
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Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
Studio album by James Blood Ulmer
Released May 8, 2007
Recorded 2006
Genre Blues
Length 48:48
Label Hyena
Producer Vernon Reid
James Blood Ulmer chronology
Birthright
(2004) Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
(2007) In and Out
(2009)
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in New Orleans at the Piety Street Recording Studios and released on the Hyena label in 2007.[1]
Contents
1 Reception
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 References
Reception
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The creative place Blood finds himself in his partnership with Reid is yielding great fruit. This album is the strongest of their collaborations thus far, and is a wild ride through blues, R&B, and hard-driving distorted and feedback-laced — yet utterly musical — New Orleans funk. It's a monster".[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[2]
Track listing
All compositions by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated
"Survivors of the Hurricane" - 3:53
"Sad Days, Lonely Nights" (Junior Kimbrough) – 5:59
"Katrina" – 3:46
"Let's Talk About Jesus" – 4:19
"This Land Is Nobody's Land" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:18
"Dead Presidents" (Willie Dixon, William R. Emerson) – 4:40
"Commit a Crime" (Chester Burnett) – 5:21
"Grinnin' in Your Face" (Eddie J. House Jr.) – 4:36
"There Is Power in the Blues" – 2:28
"Backwater Blues" (Traditional) – 5:52
"Old Slave Master" – 2:36
Recorded at Piety Street Studios, New Orleans in 2006
Personnel
James Blood Ulmer - guitar, vocals
Vernon Reid - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Charles Burnham - violin, mandolin
Leon Gruenbaum - Fender Rhodes, piano, Hammond B3 organ, keyboards, mellotron, clarinet
David Barnes - harmonica
Mark Peterson - electric bass, double bass
Aubrey Dayle - drums, percussion
Irene Datcher - vocals (track 4)
