In our music, you hear a lot of those different genres.” Across the decades, Rusty has played more than his share of roadhouses, juke joints, and honky-tonks. His savory musical stew is guaranteed to keep you moving and grooving from first note to last. “To this day, I get uncomfortable when people don’t dance,” he says. “I just feel like I’m doing something wrong if I can’t get them up on the dance floor.”
Happily following his own muse, Rusty Ends continues to brew up his own brand of Hillbilly HooDoo, intent on letting the world luxuriate in his irresistible musical hybrid. “Hank Williams, he had the blues,” he says. “It comes from someplace really deep. I think it’s an African American art form. It comes from maybe deep inside the earth or something. Maybe something really primal. To me, blues is what it makes you feel inside.”
The dozen original tunes and a few bonus cover songs were recorded hot off the floor at Delmark’s Riverside Studios in Chicago by Rusty and the rhythm section of Uncle Dave Zirnheld on bass and vocals and drummer Gene Wickliffe along with guests Roosevelt Purifoy on keys and guitarist Wayne Young, who co-wrote four songs with Rusty for the project co-produced by Michael Frank of Earwig Music.
Rusty opens the set with the gleeful boast of how cranking up his guitar makes him feel “Bad Like Billy The Kid,” then slips into the heavy shuffle “The Same Thing,” explaining how the blues has a universal appeal no matter the origin or local colors and spices. Purifoy adds lively barrelhouse piano to the swinging two-step ramble thru Lonnie Mak’s hit “Honky Tonk Man,” and Rusty waxes sentimental on the tender hearted “Lost In The Blues.” The rhythm section gets cookin’ for the dance floor filler “Rockabilly Train,” and the sweetly swaying “Angels Sing The Blues,” encourages us all to hold each other close and count our blessings. Zirnheld steps to the mic in tribute to Willie Dixon, the unsung father of Chicago Blues, on the rollicking “I’m A Little Mixed Up.” Rusty plays the part of a man done wrong on the surf guitar infused track “The Worm’s Turned,” and his 335 does all the crying on the lovers’ lament “Midnight Screams.”
Tracklist:
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1 Bad Like Billy the Kid 3:39 (Rusty Ends, Ernest Wayne Young, Earwig Music Company) 2 The Same Thing 2:51 (Rusty Ends, Gene Wickliffe, David Zirnheld, Earwig Music Company) 3 Honky Tonk Man 2:53 (Troy Seals, Max D. Barnes, Irving Music) 4 Lost in the Blues 3:59 (Rusty Ends, Ernest Wayne Young, Earwig Music Company) 5 Rockabilly Train 2:38 (Rusty Ends, Gene Wickliffe, David Zirnheld, Earwig Music Company) 6 Angels Sing the Blues 4:50 (Rusty Ends, Ernest Wayne Young, Earwig Music Company) 7 A Little Mixed Up 3:17 (Betty James, Edwards Johnson / Garnet Publishing / Sunflower Music Inc.) 8 The Worm’s Turned 2:46 (Rusty Ends, Gene Wickliffe, David Zirnheld, Earwig Music Company) 9 Midnight Screams 4:50 (Rusty Ends, Earwig Music Company) 10 Linda Lu 2:53 (Ray Sharpe, Gregmark Music Inc.) 11 Lie to Me 2:08 (Rusty Ends, Gene Wickliffe, David Zirnheld, Earwig Music Company) 12 Thing Called Love 2:46 (Rusty Ends, Earwig Music Company) 13 When a Geezer Plays the Blues 3:25 (Rusty Ends, Ernest Wayne Young, Earwig Music Company) 14 Bourbon Moon 2:29 (Rusty Ends, Gene Wickliffe, David Zirnheld, Earwig Music Company) 15 Night Life 4:55 (Willie Nelson, Paul F. Buskirk, Walter M. Vreeland Sony/ATV Tree Publishing / Pappy Daily Music LP / Glad Music Publishing & Recording LP) |
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