Track Listing

1. Dark As The Night Cold As The Ground
2. Blues Story II
3. Run Here Boy
4. One Drop Blues
5. All Night Party
6. Midnight Dream
7. Long Way To Go
8. Walk Right Shoes
9. Down To The Valley
10. Tight Like That
11. Seek The Truth

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33389 in Music
• Released on: 2004-07-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

From Amazon.com
Mississippi label Fat Possum has done much for the fusion of blues and another distinctly African American music, hip-hop, but this project sounds forced and phony. R.L. Burnside's elegant and trippy Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down and the compilation New Beats from the Delta both team urban Southern MCs with the label's crusty bluesmen and sound gritty and first-rate. But this meandering, formless sonic splatter painting is terrible, despite its expert cast.

Guitarist Skip McDonald, bassist Doug Wimbish, drummer Keith LeBlanc, and producer Adrian Sherwood are electronica pioneers, the guts of the band Tackhead, and sparkplugs for recordings by Ministry, African Head Charge, and Dub Syndicate. They have a grounding in funk, reggae, and rock that's given their earlier meta-music a human streak. So it's surprising there's almost no soul here. Gliding slide guitars, samples of black voices, and harmonica lines float through the mix, sliding against pumped snare drums, echo-treated cymbals, and programming. At best, in "Run Here Boy" and the rambling narrative "Blues Story II," the CD's nearest stabs at cohesive songs, a simmering, brooding mood rises, but it's broken by intrusions of dub effects, chanting, and glossolalia. What we hear are the signifiers of blues and none of its substance, mated with listless, shambling, ambient grooves. --Ted Drozdowski

Album Description
Little Axe includes: Jayme McDonald (vocals); Skip "Little Axe" McDonald (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Alan Glen (harmonica); Keith Le Blanc (drums) 2nd Rel;Adrian Sherwood & Skip Mcdonald;Blues/Dub/Electronica. On U-Sound. 2003.