Customer Reviews
Great tunes, great sound 
2008-05-25
I went to see CC Adcock at Jazz Fest this year. Had a guy named Bramhall playing with him. CC was his usual mix of cool and grease but the songs were instantly catchy. Turns out Bramhall is sort of a legend. Turns out they are playing together because they just put together an album. Turns out the album is even more terrific than the Jazzfest set. Bramhall writes good hooks. The songs stay with you. Adcock keeps it raw."Cryin" is pure classic Swamp Pop.
CC Adcock is becoming the great collaborator. Robert Plant hung out with him in Lafayette (Louisiana, the Cajun capital)last year. Plant says "He's a piece of work - but I like him."
This is good news. 2008-05-25
The writer of Stevie Ray Vaugn's "Life by the Drop", Doyle Bramhall has produced an instant classic with this great new album. Produced by himself together with Louisianna guitarist/vocalist C.C.Adcock this CD kicks of with the rollicking rocker "Lost in the Congo" and continues the high standard throughout.
Supported by a cast of excellent muscians, including Jimmie Vaughan and Adcock this CD is a must for any fan of good American roots music.
This is the stuff 
2008-04-02
This is original music with heart and soul. Hear the sound that made Eric Clapton want to be a sideman.
great blues aclassic I cant beleive more people dont know about him 2008-03-31
what a great cd 5 stars I cant beleive no one has heard of this guy
Boring 
2008-03-10
I bought this cd on the recommendation of a friend and Amazon's review. I have to agree with smiley mike; this music is very boring, plodding, repetitive. I kept waiting for all the great guitar riffs described in the review but they were few and far between and muffled by the poor mix.
If you want some great Texas guitar music check out Chris Duarte and Joe Ely.
I really like this CD 2008-03-09
This may be the best roadhouse-rock-and-blues-guitar album a drummer's ever made. But then again, this 40-year-veteran Austin songwriter's always had an affinity for guitarists. His first band, the Chessmen, featured Jimmie Vaughan and opened for Jimi Hendrix. Bramhall cowrote nine tunes with Jimmie's brother Stevie Ray. And his own son, Doyle II, is a six-string star who tours and records with Eric Clapton. So when the disc opens with charging chords and tremolo riffs atop a big Bo Diddley beat and closes with a prickly Texas Stratocaster serenade from Bramhall's fellow former Chessman, that's not surprising. Producer C.C. Adcock, Dylan guitarist Denny Freeman, and the junior Bramhall also get their licks in. What's unexpected is how far Bramhall stretches the genre's limits, setting "Tortured Soul" to an ambling drumbeat and atmospheric slide guitar arrangement that wobbles amiably into Tom Waits's turf. And "Chateau Strut" is a flat-out fusion instrumental, while "Cryin'" sounds like a lost doo-wop classic pinched from David Lynch's jukebox. Bramhall directs all this with his authoritative punch on drums and a dry, unadorned singing style that keeps his third solo disc direct and soulful all the way through.
--Ted Drozdowski
Doyle stretches off the beaten path a bit...and still makes it! 2008-02-08
Instead of sticking to his previous winning formula of straight Texas blues and Memphis-styled soul, Doyle Bramhall Sr. experiments a bit on this latest release. The musical styles he delves into are a little more original and not so "mainstream" (relatively speaking, of course...Doyle is not and probably never will be true mainstream--he's way too talented for that) as his two previous efforts.
A winning combination is the result! The genres touched on are kind of widespread, but they're great nontheless...some of the songs are a little more primitive and raw than some of the horn-laced soul tunes on "Fitchburg Street." Personally, I enjoy Fitchburg Street more, but I'm just more of a straight-ahead blues-rock-soul kind of guy. I can still recognize the talent and quality of the music here, and it's logical that Doyle wants to branch out with each successive album--great stuff!
Doyle is great. 2008-01-29
I listen to a lot of blues and blues related, inluenced etc. music and even though I love it, it can wear on you after awhile. Especially when it is a continual stream of classic retreads of people trying to better the originals or perhaps just trying to prove that they can play them as good as the original performer (which is rarely ever the case). Doyle is not one of those people. Even on his previous cds, his covers were injected with his own ideas and personality. On this cd of all originals he does a great job. Big beats and cool guitars are the call of the day. His singing is superb. The first time I heard him it was more than a little apparent where Stevie Ray Vaughn learned to sing. Don't be confused on this, it was definatly Doyle doing the teaching. Maybe not a total monster but scarey as hell. I love it!!
Now buy this! 2007-11-24
D.B.'s got it all: punchy, rockin', with a sweet side that keeps on givin'. I got mine, get your own!
boring, plodding, dull 2007-11-23
the worst CD I have bought in a long time. The reality did not match the hype. Doyle is a nice man - had a drink with him and SRV many years ago in Sydney. He remains a nice man - but his CD is rubbish. I bought it because of the review and the lineup. As a CD a good reason to down load. But that would be naughty
