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Rolling Stones no zombies in Voodoo Lounge

Michael Becker
-RECORD REVIEW

TONES ROLL along;

Jimmy Scott releases a

dream disc; Michelle
“Evil Gal” Willson jumps
the blues. .

Rolling Stones -- Vocedoo
Lounge, Virgin/EMI 1994

Hey, hey you got me rocking
now, you knobbly, horny ald
Glimmer Twins, you.

It was an inspired move to
snag the ubiquitous Don Was to
share production duties. lis my
bet that he helped check the
hubris at the door.

The result is one of the best
Stones discs to come out in too
many years. And what makes it
work is the formula of tapping
the stripped down trademark
tiffs and flourishes that defined
the band’s better moments
throughout its 30-plus-year
recording career.

While there isn’t anything
that immediately smells of
instant classic, there are
moments that trip the memory
switches, You inevitably find
yourself playing the “sounds
like...” game, attempting to
place the hard rock tracks and
ballads within the context of
what has come before.

Taken for what it is on its
own merit, detached from the

living pop gods context,
Voodoo Lounge rocks just fine.
Jager is as sleazy and menac-
ing as ever, Walls sets aside his
solo career jazz inclinations to
play percussive straight man,
Richards and Wood bust loose
with much crunch on guitars, In
place of the departed Bill
Wyman is Darryl Jones, a
bassist who has played with
Miles Davis and Sting.
jimmy Scott —
Sire/Warner Bros. 1994

How fitting, although Twin
Peaks fans didn’t realize it then,
blinded as we were by our
unhealthy fixation with Julee
Cruise, that Jimmy Scott
appeared from the twilight
world on screen as a ghost in
the enigmatic television series.

Since his 1992 resurrection
from the land of the commer-
cially deceased with the Sire
label debut release A// The
Way, a disc which garnered the
jazz balladeer a Grammy
nomination that year for best
jazz vocal, Scott has attained a
much deserved popularity.

At 69 his high, quavery
voice, dripping in heartbreak
and spooky drama, squeezes
the soul-quenching juice from a
lyric by force of the kind of
deliberate phrasing that is the
magic of all timelessly great

Dream,

singers. The tear drops are in his
heart.

His first break came in [948
when he sang with the Lionel}
Hampton band. .

Decades later, following a
lost period of bad record deals
and lousy nightclub gizs, Scott
came to the attention of Sire
Records president Seymour
Stein, who heard him sing in
1991 Someone To Watch Over

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Me atthe funeral of songwriter
Dac Pomus. The song shows up
on the All The Way dise.

The latest disc is produced
by Mitchell Froom and recorded
and mixed by Tchad Blake.
Blake and Froom most recently
joined with Los Lobos’ David
Hidalgo and Louie Perez to
form the Latin Playboys.

Dream is a romantic
charmer. Scott picked favorite
songs from his repertoire over
the years to include songs such
as It’s The Talk Of The Town,
Duke Ellington’s It Shouldn't
Happen To A Dream and
Johnny Mercer's Dream.
Bedrock instrumentation of
piano, bass, drums, vibes, sa:.
and guitar is rightly unadorned
to make room for Scott's glori-
ous voice.

wid.
Michelle Willson — Evii Gal
Blues, Bullseye Blues/Denon
1994

Listen to Evil Gal Blues to
hear just why her band won the
Blues Foundation National
Blues and Talent Competition in
Memphis ast year.

Evil Gal Willson is a huge
new talent fresh out of the New
England blues scene. She fol-
lows in the footsteps of the likes
of Dinah Washington and Ruth
Brown.

She’s got a big, precise and
exuberant voice tempered by a
suitably nasty home-wrecking
attitude,

Her band, smooth practi-
tioners of classic swing-based
jump blues, flat out smokes this
disc.

The temperature fluctuates.
Warm yourself with the low-
heat scorch of Blues For A Day
or heat up with the sizzle of a
track like Voodoo Voodoo.

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