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Heart of Pain by Lucky Peterson

Heart of Pain

Release Date: 2/23/2010

Recording Date: 2/2010

Tracks: 11

Length: 00:45:06 Hrs

Label: JSP Records

Type: CD

Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Soul-Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Blues, Electric Blues, Contemporary Blues

Album Tracks (11)

Song Title
Length
1.
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
03:17
2.
Heart of Pain
04:49
3.
A Woman Don't Care
04:00
4.
I Will Survive
03:34
5.
Age Ain't Nothing But a Number
03:51
6.
Oh Baby
03:27
7.
He's the Answer
04:20
8.
Brown Can't Be Bad
05:22
9.
Lucky's 88
05:16
10.
Bound to Make You Love Me
03:53
11.
I Won't Be Found
03:17

What the Critics Say

Lucky Peterson’s journey through the blues has been a long and labyrinthine one. A child prodigy, he scored his first hit at the age of six, appeared on both The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, and was a longtime member of Bobby "Blue" Bland's traveling and recording band before he got his own shot as a leader in the '80s. He’s a notable guitarist who also plays a hell of a piano and a Hammond B-3, is a fine vocalist and arranger. He’s recorded jazz and gospel albums -- he collaborated with Mavis Staples on the excellent Spirituals & Gospel: Dedicated to Mahalia Jackson. Heart of Pain is a return to (mostly) contemporary Chicago-style blues, on which Peterson plays lead guitar, keyboards, and sings. He is backed by his current road band and a three-piece horn section. Heart of Pain is his third recording for Great Britain's JSP imprint, and quite solid. It contains 11 tracks of old-school Chicago blues beginning with a rollicking reading of John Steadman's and Steve Washington’s “Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire” (they wrote the majority of the tunes here). The I-IV-V progression features a killer piano break from Peterson. The title track highlights Peterson's guitar muscle with a deeply soulful vocal. There is a slick gospel number on the set called “He’s the Answer,” penned with his sister, Tamara, who offers a fine duet performance. Another roadhouse rocker is the stellar “I Will Survive,” with its punchy horns, B-3, and stinging guitar fills. There’s a strutting piano workout called “Lucky’s 88” and the set closes with the funky “I Won't Be Found,” featuring a swaggering horn chart. In sum, this is a great place to catch Peterson at what he does best, and yet another chapter in his blues sojourn. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi

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