Downhome Sophisticate
Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst-infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Downhome Sophisticate is an album by the American blues musician Corey Harris, released in 2002.[1][2]
The album peaked at No. 4 on Billboard's Blues Albums chart.[3] Harris promoted the album by touring with his band, 5X5.[4]
Production
The album was produced by Harris and Jamal Millner.[5] Millner also played guitar on Downhome Sophisticate.[6] Henry Butler played piano on "Black Maria".[7]
Critical reception
Template:Music ratings Robert Christgau noted that the "rock-type poetry ... makes like social conditions are as real as love and dreams."[8] The Washington Post stated that "on 'Santoro', which concerns social injustice and racial profiling, Harris vents his frustration in a voice that rises just above a whisper to ask: 'So why you figure they be so jumpy on the trigger. So quick like that, to assassinate black?'"[9]
Bass Player called the album "a revelation—a nasty, Old School blues album with tinges of boogie-woogie, African soul, hip-hop, blazing yet sensitive slide guitar, and pristine production."[10] The Commercial Appeal thought that the album "shows that one can embrace roots and still be forward looking ... Rarely has traditional sounded more modern."[11] The Ottawa Citizen opined that "this definitely isn't for your 12-bar, hard-core crowd, but for those who're a little more interested in where the blues and grown-up R&B might be headed in the not-to-distant future."[12]
AllMusic wrote that "it's an easy leap for Harris from folklore to urgent urban settings; his depiction of a police car as a fearsome, prowling Biblical beast makes 'Santoro' especially disturbing."[13]
Track listing
- "Giddyup" - 0:18
- "Frankie Doris" - 2:52
- "Money on My Mind" - 3:31
- "Don't Let the Devil Ride" - 2:10
- "Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning" - 2:53
- "Capitaine" - 2:06
- "Santoro" - 2:36
- "Fire on the Radio" - 0:27
- "Fire" - 5:09
- "BB" - 2:18
- "Downhome Prelude" - 0:09
- "Downhome Sophisticate" - 3:17
- "Sista Rose" - 6:28
- "Black Maria" - 4:32
- "Chinook" - 2:30
- "Money Eye" - 4:04
- "Where the Yellow Cross the Dog" - 1:53
- "F'shizza (Santoro Remix)" - 5:40
References
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