Cotton Field Of Dreams

“…14 highly original songs with a unique perspective of the blues. Bashor’s vision of the blues takes in elements of soul, pop, rock and even folk, and he has a warm, inviting voice that engages the listener immediately… Bashor is a talented songwriter who mixes personal perspective into his songs, a gifted performer, and his love for the blues comes through on every note. Highlights include the funky opener, “Jukin’ Down on Johnson Street,” the rollicking “Rockin’ Red Rooster” (originally covered by Lonnie Brooks…this version features Bill Payne’s rowdy barrelhouse piano), “So Blue,” with Mike McConnell playing some tasty acoustic guitar and Shay Jones’ contributing vocals, and the atmospheric title track. The humorous “Seeing Eye Dog Blues” and “Tater Digging Woman” are also standouts, and Travers’ six-stringed contributions  to “Fetch Me,” make a good tune even better.”
– Graham Clarke, BluesBytes

“Well-travelled blues and roots musician Albert Bashor’s debut, all-originals solo project not only showcases his amazing songwriting talent but his ambitiously panoramic acoustic-guitar chops and rangy, jazz-tinged vocal approach that, at times recalls the soaring intensity of the late Dino Valenti of Quicksilver Messenger Service. This is one of those albums that you know you are going to enjoy from the first few seconds of the lead-off track – in this case it’s the imaginative, name-dropping saga of “Jukin’ Down On Johnson Street.”

“Followed by thirteen other great, often slide guitar-fueled selections, like his chicken-shake, boogie-styled “Rockin’ Red Rooster” (with Ron Holloway on sax), a downbeat break-up song “One Last Time” and the lengthy title composition – that relates the north-bound dream of many a 1930s Southern bluesman. Also checked is the spoken-word tall tale “Poodle Ribs Story,” that adroitly introduces the next number “Poodle Ribs,” and a desperate “Fetch Me” – with blues-rocker Pat Travers enlivening affairs on electric guitar. Great notes by Bill Dahl. More please.
— Gary von Tersh, Big City Blues

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1. Jukin’ Down On Johnson Street 4:33
2. Rockin’ Red Rooster 2:51
3. Poodle Ribs Story 2:44
4. Poodle Ribs 4:59
5. Put Me On Like You Do 4:04
6. Tater Diggin’ Woman 3:15
7. So Blue 4:04
8. One Last Time 4:33
9. Cotton Field Of Dreams 5:39
10. Seeing Eye Dog Blues 4:06
11. Fetch Me 5:02
12. No Place Like Home 3:40
13. High On Your Love 3:47
14. Lucky Man 4:38

©P 2012 by Michael Robert Frank and Lynn Orman Weiss, and Earwig Music Company, Inc.
Albert Bashor song publishing by Songs of the Noteworthy Muse (BMI)
Produced by Michael Frank and Lynn Orman Weiss

r e c o r d i n g
Jim Godsey JBG Audio, Palatine, Illinois
11/22/10, 11/23/10, 7/5/11, 7/8/11
All tracks with Mike McConnell, Willie Hayes, Shay Jones
Sean Shannon, Red Room Audio, Apopka, Florida
3/11/11, 3/12/11, 3/13/11
all tracks with Forest Rodgers, Larry Jacoby, and Bill Payne
Scott Shuman, Shuman Recording, Falls Church, Virginia
Ron Holloway overdub session 6/25/11
e d i t i n g , m i x i n g , m a s t e r i n g
Jim Godsey JBG Audio, Palatine, Illinois

Musicians
Mike McConnell – electric & acoustic guitar on
Lucky Man, So Blue
Bill Payne – organ & electric piano all tracks except
Jukin’ Down On Johnson Street, Put Me On Like You Do,
Seeing Eye Dog Blues
Forrest Rodgers – electric & acoustic guitars, mandolin
Larry Jacoby – electric & acoustic bass
Pat Travers – electric guitar on Fetch me
Ron Holloway – saxophone on Cotton Field Of Dreams,
So Blue, Lucky Man, Poodle Ribs, Rockin’ Red Rooster
Willie Hayes – drums on Jukin’ Down On
Johnson Street, Rockin’ Red Rooster,
Poodle Ribs, So Blue
Shay Jones – background & guest vocal on So Blue
background vocals on One Last Time and
Jukin’ Down On Johnson Street
Michael Frank – harmonica on
Put Me On Like You Do
Lynn Orman & Michael Frank – background
vocals on Jukin’ Down On Johnson Street