Walking On Fire

Personnel: Kenny Neal (electric & acoustic guitars, harmonica, vocals); Ernie Lancaster (guitar); Bill Samuel (tenor saxophone); Leroy Cooper (baritone saxophone); Bruce Staelens, Danny "Boney" Fields (trumpet); Russell Jackson (bass); Bob Greenlee (bass, baritone saxophone); Jim Payne, Tony Coleman (drums).Engineers: Bryan Bassett, Andrew McIntyre.Recorded at King Snake Studios, Sanford, Florida.Another in the remarkably consistent Alligator catalog of Kenny Neal that strikingly captures his contemporary Baton Rouge blues sound. He gets a little hot help from the Horny Horns -- alto saxist Maceo Parker and trombonist Fred Wesley -- who once filled a smiliar role behind the Godfather of Soul himself, James Brown. Two songs find Neal going the unplugged route, just as he had performed them in the Broadway musical Mule Bone. ~ Bill Dahl

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