Monster Mike Welch - 2004 - Adding Insight To Injury.nfo
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Monster Mike Welch - Adding Insight To Injury
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Artist...............: Monster Mike Welch
Album................: Adding Insight To Injury
Genre................: Blues
Year.................: 2004
Codec................: LAME 3.90
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: , ID3 v2.3
Information..........: Thanks to the mp3 ripper
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Tracklisting
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1. Monster Mike Welch - But For The Grace Of You [03:07]
2. Monster Mike Welch - Get Over Me [03:40]
3. Monster Mike Welch - Lose You [04:01]
4. Monster Mike Welch - Good At Goodbye [04:18]
5. Monster Mike Welch - Slapback [03:54]
6. Monster Mike Welch - Thunder In The Distance [07:09]
7. Monster Mike Welch - I Don't Want To Come Down [03:35]
8. Monster Mike Welch - Do You Know Who You Are [03:56]
9. Monster Mike Welch - Masters Of War [05:10]
10. Monster Mike Welch - Flying High [04:35]
11. Monster Mike Welch - Tomorrow Morning [05:20]
12. Monster Mike Welch - Into Thin Air [02:39]
13. Monster Mike Welch - Kings And Pawns [04:10]
Playing Time.........: 55:39
Total Size...........: 127.48 MB
NFO generated on.....: 1/27/2019 11:15:32 AM
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Album Notes
With thoughtful, edgy songwriting, passionate vocals, and a ton of virtuosic
blues-rock guitar, the Monster Mike Welch Band's Adding Insight to Injury
gives the blues a highly original shot in the arm. Welch, who first came to
prominence as a young blues guitar prodigy in the early 1990's, fuses the
deepest blues with clever rock and pop sensibilities to create a sound that
thrills audiences worldwide. AI2I is Welch's first original CD in six years, a
period in which he appeared on CDs by Johnny Winter, Sugar Ray and the
Bluetones, and Shemekia Copeland.
The opener, "But For the Grace Of You," establishes the tone, with a
slamming Ray Charles-influenced groove, biting SRVish guitars, and a
shimmering Abbey Road middle eight. "Get Over Me," originally written for
Sugar Ray and the Bluetones, is recast here as a Lennonesque blues wail,
with Welch's throaty vocals right to the fore, and a guitar solo that recalls
early Freddy King without ever quoting the big man.
"Lose You" stakes out the MMWBand's unique place in the world of music,
recasting the West Side Chicago minor blues that Welch grew up on with
gorgeous, complex chord changes, and wordplay that brings to mind Elvis
Costello or Bob Dylan. The guitar solo brings it all back home, though, with
stinging tones that Welch may have learned from fellow New England guitar
hero Ronnie Earl. "Good At Goodbye," written with Tom Hambridge
(writer/producer of Susan Tedeschi's hit album Just Won't Burn), slows the
pace for a contemplative yet intense blues ballad that builds up to a
screaming climax. Here, Welch displays just how much his vocal prowess has
grown since his prodigy days, giving a reading that is tender but raw,
lamenting lost love.
"Slapback" is pure blues-rock, a tale of dead love with slabs of filthy guitar
and a big drum shuffle. "Thunder in the Distance" is the kind of slow blues
upon which Welch's reputation rests, featuring brilliant extended soloing with
the dynamics of a young Buddy Guy. Welch uses the slow tempo to dig in
vocally, milking all the feeling from the lyrics.
"I Don't Want To Come Down" mixes sunny pop with deep Delta blues over a
throbbing jungle groove from drummer Ephraim Lowell and John Lee
Hookeresque rhythm guitar from Barrie Anderson. Lowell, Anderson, and
bassist Pat Christman display their astounding versatility on the Sly Stone-like
funk of "Do You Know Who You Are", underpinning the multitracked Welch's
bitter, soulful ranting.
The late blues legend Johnny Copeland was a mentor and friend to the young
Monster Mike, and here Mike joins with Boston blues hero Matt Woodburn to
cover the master's "Flying High." Welch and Woodburn share the singing, and
share lead guitar duties with Barrie Anderson for a heartfelt tribute. Bob
Dylan's virulently anti-war protest classic "Masters Of War" is reimagined by
the band as a West Side minor blues in the tradition of Magic Sam and Otis
Rush, with a burning intensity that leaves no doubt where Mike and the band
stand.
"Tomorrow Morning," previously featured on 2003's Sugar Ray and the
Bluetones Featuring Monster Mike Welch in a different arrangement,
combines a Howlin' Wolf-influenced drone with a D'Angelo-like hip-hop soul
groove to modernize the deepest of the Delta blues in a very hip way. "Into
Thin Air" has stinging guitar solos from Barrie Anderson, and a passionate
vocal from Welch on some of his strongest lyrics yet. The CD comes to a close
with a Pat Christman composition, a gently psychedelic blues ballad called
"Kings And Pawns" with Welch's sweet and sour lap steel.
With AI2I, the Monster Mike Welch Band is poised to once again take the
blues world by storm with a new, original vision for the music. Welch's first CD
was called These Blues Are Mine; the blues on Adding Insight To Injury could
be no one else's.
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