Rich Man (Double LP)

 
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Doyle Bramhall II
Rich Man (Double LP)

[ Concord Records / 2 LP ]

Release Date: Friday 13 January 2017

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This album, long awaited by fans who have followed Bramhall's collaborations with artists as far-ranging as Tedeschi Trucks Band to Roger Waters, is his first in over a decade. The album reflects both his extensive experience in the interim with such artists as Eric Clapton, whom he's worked closely with for more than ten years (and who hails him as one of the most gifted guitarists he's ever heard) and Sheryl Crow, for whom he produced and composed songs for on the 2011 album 100 Miles from Memphis, as well as an intensive spiritual and musical journey that took him to India and Africa in search of new sounds and an inner peace sought following the death of his legendary father Doyle Bramhall.

Since 2008, and in the year following his father's death, Bramhall had extensively explored India and Northern Africa. The influence of these journeys manifest in Rich Man's inclusion of the North Indian classical bowed string instrument sarangi-played by virtuoso Ustad Surjeet Singh-and the bowl-shaped Arabic oud lute, played by Bramhall's own oud teacher Yuval Ron, the renowned Israeli composer-player-arranger.

Also appearing on Rich Man is Norah Jones, with whom Bramhall had been performing every six months or so in a concert series. The duet "New Faith" was emblematic of the entire album in its hope that people can look beyond all that divides them and find a new way of thinking that enables peaceful progress through mutual respect and understanding.

Rich Man, then, is a watershed achievement for Bramhall, both in terms of the many music styles in the tracks-which begin and end with his fundamental American blues influences, and in between, follow his global music explorations and arrangements--and the inner examinations resulting in the spiritual growth expressed in the lyrics.

"I read a quote from Charles Mingus," Bramhall stated upon the completion of Rich Man. "He felt that he was not just playing a style of music so much as expressing the sounds of his life and experiences through the medium of music. I very much relate to that."

Tracks:

Side A:
Mama Can't Help You 4:22
November 5:09
The Veil 4:53
My People 6:56

Side B:
New Faith 4:52
Keep You Dreamin' 5:00
Hands Up 6:47

Side C;
Rich Man 5:24
Harmony 5:43
Cries Of Ages 5:35

Side D:
Saharan Crossing 3:03
The Samanas 9:55
Hear My Train A Comin' 5:09