If you play the blues, and your name is Robert Johnson, the job you have may be a little bit more daunting, maybe an uphill push. Robert Johnson Jr., like the other RJ, is a bluesman. Over a series of singles, the Mr. Johnson Jr. keeps the blues and southern heritage both on display he plies his trade a little north of the crossroads, making base in Charlotte, North Carolina. Southern roads offer many paths to get to the blues. Robert Jr. samples liberally from the styles of the south easing into a slow blue groove, raw folk blues, Soul painted with a brush of the blues and fiery electric blues of the raise-the-roof variety. “Bring Your Love” lays acoustic guitar string riffs out over a thin blue line partnered with fat, rounded organ notes and “C’Mon Baby (I Got Your Shoes)” is a whistling walk through sunshine, kicking stones and enjoying the day. Jazz chords open up “Werewolves Make Lousy Boyfriends” giving a springboard to psychedelic electric guitar moods as the six-string reaches for the sky with high-flying leads and warms with the smooth caress of tender notes. A rhythm bounce pushes and pulls “Do You Know Harm” as the narrator playfully lets his pleas match the up and down of the beat. Robert Johnson Jr. is a son of the south and he sings to his part of the world with two tracks geared for windows facing towards Dixie. He pens a love letter to home with “Carolina Days (Bootsies Song)” and draws an electric line in the sand on “Ain’t No Man” with pride with ‘southern style ain’t just about what you do or what you say’. -Alternate Root Magazine Review.
Posted on: Sun, 25 May 2014 00:12:46 +0000
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