Cut You Loose

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Personnel: James Cotton (vocals, harmonica); James Cook (guitar); Martin Fierro (tenor & baritone saxophones); Mike Fender (bass trumpet); Wayne Talbert (piano, organ); Eddie Adams (bass); Joe Rodriguez (drums).
Recorded at Coast Recording, San Francisco, California in April 1968.
The second solo album by James Cotton, the one time harp disciple of Sonny Boy Williamson and former Muddy Waters sideman, is a loose, enjoyable mixture of urbane and gutbucket blues styles. Among the former, Cotton phrases like a sax player (but gets a sound like Little Walter) on Percy Mayfield's classy ballad "River's Invitation," while on Jimmy Reed's standard "Honest I Do" he goes (appropriately) all country harp squeaky.
Cotton's vocals have all the swagger necessary for the material. The fairly large back-up band here is fluent enough to pull off a slow, jazzy, ballad version of Little Richard's "Slippin' and Slidin'."