Artist: Kenny Neal
Genre(s):
Blues
Other
Discography:
Homesick for the Road
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Hoodoo Moon
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Bayou Blood
Year: 1992
Tracks: 14
Walking on Fire
Year: 1991
Tracks: 12
Devil Child
Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
Big News from Baton Rouge!!
Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
The next of Baton Rouge swampland blues lies forthright in multi-instrumentalist Kenny Neal's up to custody -- the second-generation southern Louisiana bluesman is entirely aware of the region's venerable megrims tradition and imaginative enough to steer it in fresh directions, as his albums for Alligator confirm. His dada, harper Raful Neal, was a Baton Rouge blues mainstay whose pals included Buddy Guy and Slim Harpo (the latter handed three-year-old horse Kenny an old harp one day as a toy, and that was it). At age 13, Neal was playing in his father's band, and he picked up a bass at 17 for Buddy Guy. In 1987, Neal cut off his debut LP for Florida producer Bob Greenlee -- a stunningly updated swampland banquet initially marketed on King Snake Records as Bio on the Bayou. Alligator picked it up the following year, retitled it Vainglorious News from Baton Rouge!!, and offspring Neal was on his way. Neal's sizzling guitar work, inflexible harp, and shingly, aged-beyond-his-years vocals hold served him well ever since. Among his legion albums ar Devil Child (1989), Bayou Blood (1992), Hoodoo Moon (1994), Blues Fallin' Down Like Rain (1998), What You Got (2000), One Step Closer (2001), Easy Meeting (2003), Double Take (2004), and A Trubute to Slim Harpo and Raful Neal (2005).
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