Boz Scaggs ‎– A Fool To Care (Blue Vinyl)

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Collector’s edition from Barnes & Noble. Still in Shrink.

Boz Scaggs follows 2013’s killer Memphis with a second Tennessee album. A Fool to Care was recorded over four days with producer/drummer Steve Jordan and a core band of guitarist Ray Parker, Jr. and bassist Willie Weeks at Nashville’s Blackbird Studio. These 12 songs are primarily covers that reflect various sources, the most prevalent among them being R&B and soul. The band is augmented occasionally with strings, horns, and Music City luminaries including guitarists Reggie Young and Al Anderson and pedal steel boss Paul Franklin. Simply put, there is no filler here — virtually every song is a highlight. The opener is a swaggering, horn-drenched presentation of Dorothy LaBostrie and McKinley Millet’s “Rich Woman.” Scaggs’ reading is inspired by Li’l Millet & His Creoles’ 1955 version more than Canned Heat’s or Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’. The title track was cut as a country swing tune by author Ted Daffan in 1940. Scaggs reads it through the New Orleans R&B of Fats Domino. And speaking of NOLA, Bobby Charles and Rick Danko’s “Small Town Talk” is executed flawlessly with slippery breaks by Jordan and a simmering B-3 by Jim Cox. “Hell to Pay” is an original, a badass blues driven by Weeks’ funky upright bass. Sung in duet with Bonnie Raitt (who also plays mean slide here), Scaggs takes an all too rare guitar solo. “Last Tango on 16th Street” melds Carlos Gardel, West Coast jazz, and Brechtian drama. Scaggs’ delivery is full of restrained empathy, not pity. His version of Richard Hawley’s otherworldly waltz “There’s a Storm a Comin'” features Franklin’s pedal steel crying amid accordion, bass, bump organ, and B-3. It is an elegant outlier here. Scaggs offers Curtis Mayfield’s “I’m So Proud” with an expressive falsetto that would make the composer proud. Huey P. Smith’s 1958 classic “High Blood Pressure” is rendered raw, ragged, and raucous. That shimmering falsetto returns to Memphis in a grooving version of Al Green’s “Full of Fire” before slipping toward smooth Philly soul with a gorgeous take on the Spinners’ 1974 classic “Love Don’t Love Nobody.” But Scaggs saves the very best for last. He teams with Lucinda Williams for Richard Manuel’s (the Band) “Whispering Pines.” Franklin’s steel returns in a breezy, warm, atmospheric arrangement that relies on the depth in Jordan’s floor tom-toms. The contrast between Williams’ bluesy, grainy contralto and Scaggs’ soul-basted croon underscores the wrenching heartbreak in the lyric. Ultimately, A Fool to Care is not only a companion to Memphis, but also to 1997’s Come on Home and his earliest (pre-Silk Degrees) sides. Scaggs’ voice is unmarked by time. Whether singing new or old songs, he presents them in the moment as living, breathing entities. He remains a song interpreter who has few — if any — peers.

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429 Records ‎– FTN16036 Stereo LP Limited Edition in Blue Color Vinyl.

Side 1,

1. Rich Woman
Songwriter – Dorothy La Bostrie, McKinley Millet

2. I’m A Fool To Care
Songwriter – Ted Daffan

3. Hell To Pay
Slide Guitar – Bonnie Raitt
Songwriter – Boz Scaggs
Vocals – Bonnie Raitt

4. Small Town Talk
Songwriter – Rick Danko, Robert Guidry

5. Last Tango On 16th Street
Songwriter – Jack Walroth

6. There’s A Storm A’ Comin’
Songwriter – Richard Hawley

Side 2.

1. I’m So Proud
Songwriter – Curtis Mayfield

2. I Want To See You
Songwriter – Jack Walroth

3. High Blood Pressure
Songwriter – Huey P. Smith

4. Full Of Fire
Songwriter – Al Green, Mabon Lewis Hodges, Willie Mitchell

5. Love Don’t Love Nobody
Songwriter – Charles Simmons, Joseph Jefferson

6. Whispering Pines
Songwriter – Richard Manuel, Jaime Robertson
Vocals – Lucinda Williams

Credits:
Accordion – Jim Hoke
Acoustic Guitar – Boz Scaggs, Ray Parker Jr.
Alto Flute – Jim Hoke
Alto Saxophone – Douglas Rowan, Eric Crystal
Arranged By [Woodwinds] – Jim Hoke
Art Direction – Jeri Heiden, Nick Steinhardt
Backing Vocals – Conesha “Ms. Monet” Owens, Fred Ross, Steve Jordan, Tony Lindsay
Bandoneon – Seth Asarnow
Baritone Saxophone – Douglas Rowan, Jim Hoke, Jim Horn
Bass – Willie Weeks
Bass Clarinet – Jim Hoke
Booking – Brad Goodman
Cello – Anthony La Merchina, Sari Reist
Conductor [Strings] – Lester Snell
Design – Jeri Heiden, Nick Steinhardt
Drums – Steve Jordan, Steve Jordan
Electric Guitar – Boz Scaggs, Ray Parker Jr.
Engineer [Assistant] – Diego Ruelas, Sean Badum
Guitar – Boz Scaggs, Ray Parker Jr., Reggie Young
Guitar [Chunk Guitar] – Al Anderson
Guitar [Fills] – Boz Scaggs
Guitar [Guitar Figure] – Al Anderson
Lead Guitar – Boz Scaggs
Lead Vocals – Boz Scaggs
Management – Craig Fruin
Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
Mixed By – Dave O’Donnell (tracks: A1), Niko Bolas, Steve Jordan
Organ [B-3] – Jim Cox
Organ [Pump] – Jim Cox, Seth Asarnow
Percussion – Steve Jordan
Photography By – Danny Clinch
Piano – Eric Crystal, Jim Cox
Piano [Wurlitzer] – Jim Cox
Producer – Steve Jordan
Recorded By – Niko Bolas
Recorded By [Additional] – Chris Tabarez, J. Michael Rodriguez
Rhythm Guitar – Boz Scaggs, Ray Parker Jr.
Steel Guitar – Paul Franklin
Strings – The Love Sponge Strings
Synthesizer [Atmospherics] – Clifford Carter
Tenor Saxophone – Douglas Rowan, Eric Crystal, Jim Hoke, Lannie McMillan
Transcription By [Horn Arrangements] – Lester Snell
Transcription By [String Arrangements] – Lester Snell
Trombone – Jack Hale
Trumpet – Ben Cauley, Quentin L. Ware, Jr.
Vibraphone – Jim Hoke
Viola – Kristin Wilkinson, Monisa Angell
Violin – Alicia Enstrom, David Angell, David Davidson , Weitsun Chang
Woodwind [Miscellaneous] – Jim Hoke

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Weight 0,5 kg