Little Charlie & The Nightcats - 2005 - Nine Lives.nfo
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Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Nine Lives
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Artist...............: Little Charlie & The Nightcats
Album................: Nine Lives
Genre................: Blues
Source...............: Flac
Year.................: 2005
Codec................: LAME 3.10
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: , ID3 v2.3
Information..........: Thanks to the flac ripper
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Tracklisting
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1. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Keep Your Big Mouth Shut[04:35]
2. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Handle With Care [05:02]
3. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - So Good [03:43]
4. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Got To Have A Job [03:29]
5. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Circling The Drain [04:49]
6. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Don't Cha Do Nothin' [04:17]
7. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Cool Johnny Twist [06:21]
8. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Tag (You're It) [04:49]
9. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Quittin' Time [05:32]
10. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Dee Pockets [05:03]
11. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Wall To Wall [03:08]
12. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Sugar Daddy Sweet [03:17]
13. Little Charlie & The Nightcats - Slap Happy [03:47]
Playing Time.........: 57:59
Total Size...........: 132.76 MB
NFO generated on.....: 2/5/2019 3:49:32 PM
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This is Little Charlie & the Nightcats' tenth album (counting a live one and a
best-of) for Alligator Records, and it delivers nothing new or innovative,
which is hardly surprising, since the group, particularly when harmonica man
Rick Estrin is singing, has always essentially been a caricature in the first
place, and caricatures, almost by definition, don't grow or change. The
problem on Nine Lives isn't the playing, since guitarist Charlie Baty, Estrin on
harmonica, and yet a new rhythm section of J. Hansen on drums and Lorenzo
Farrell on bass are all solid, road-tested professionals, capable of delivering
blisteringly heavy instrumentals like the one that closes this album ("Slap
Happy" is easily the best track here). The problem is a general lack of fresh
vision. Song after song features the same protagonist, a hard-working,
hard-drinking simple man who has trouble with women, spends (or loses) all of
his money, and seems generally amazed at it all. Ten albums of this same guy
staring down the same old state of affairs means songs like this album's
"Circling the Drain" simply don't resonate anymore, maybe because this guy's
life has been circling the drain for some 20 years now. Everything here
sounds fine, but it simply doesn't ignite a spark, and since the blues format is
so familiar, without a spark it quickly goes flat. And that's the problem here,
and no matter how well the band plays, Little Charlie & the Nightcats seem
stuck in a deepening, unintentional, and almost comedic blues ennui. Time to
put out the box set and move on to new territory.
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