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Reviews Blues Road review of Some Kind of BluesPat Carr macht "handmade" Blues. Er kommt aus Colorado (USA) und ich hätte ihn wohl nie kennengelernt wenn er nicht die BluesRoad gefunden hätte und öfters im Radio zu Gast wäre. Das ist aber nicht der Grund warum ich euch die CD empfehlen möchte. Man spürt aus jeder Note die er spielt die Liebe zu dieser Musik. Man kann sich fallen lassen und geniessen. Kein Kracher oder Bluesrockknaller sondern einfach eine Scheibe in die man sich verlieben kann. Auf P.W.`s Homepage oder seiner MySpace Seite könnt ihr ein paar Beispiele hören. Kaufempfehlung!! Pat Carr makes "handmade" Blues. He comes from Colorado (USA),
and I probably would never have become acquainted with him if he
had not found BluesRoad and often been a guest on the radio.
However, that is not the reason why I would like to recommend the
CD to you. One senses from each note he plays his love for this music.
You can kick back and enjoy. No Kracher or Bluesrockknaller, rather
simply a disk you can fall in love with. On P.W.'s homepage or his
MySpace site you can hear a few examples. 
GarageBand review of "Evil Evil"Smoooooooth! I love the sound of a real horn in a blues mix! You had
me from the intro. The vocalist is a dead ringer for Robert Cray. The
song is in his style but better due to the sax which played tasteful
pentatonic licks. I was about to say the song just needed some tasteful
guitar to make it whole, when to my pleasure, one broke in at the 3:30
mark. This song is as good as it get as far as I am concerned and I will
be looking for more from this band. Man, even the vocal arrangements
were spot on.
FatCat Radio review of "Put Yourself In My Place""Put Yourself in My Place" - I love the gritty, acoustic sound of
this song. I really like how Pat's vocals and those of the female in
the song play off of each other. This song is a recent addition to the
Indigo Lounge and I really enjoy it. Congratulations to Pat Carr! Your
song "Put Yourself in My Place" - has earned: The FatCat Featured Song
of the Week!
RootsTime review of Put Yourself In My Place, RootsTime CD of the Month~~~~ note: this is translated from Dutch. Already at the first listen we were seized by the powerful and sincere lyrics of this jewel. Pat grew up in Louisiana, where he started his career as French Quarter street zanger. As a young knaap he listened mainly to Southern soul and R&B, to artists such as Irma Thomas, Professor Longhair, Slim Harpo, Rufus Thomas, Clarence Frogman Henry and Aaron Neville. Later he played guitar, bass and mandolin in many bands in New Orleans and in the buurt of Denver. Afterwards it was just as quiet around this man. Obviously is he simply not just a fast writer, or possibly you must consider this man more as a good wine, which must finally also quietly mature before he richly becomes full and of taste. "Put Yourself in My Place" is a good example of this, it is a CD which is intense and character-full with a firm aftertaste, which makes you want to taste more. Without already too much dedicating concerning the contents of the songs, we can say that Pat is a man that really has something to say. Pat Carr, besides being a madman guitarist, has been blessed with a splendidly multi-purpose voice sound with which he can sing, besides low, also considerably high and alternately very beautifully subtle, but also raw can sound. Also by the arrangements and instrumentation, Pat's music is inspired by everything from the gospel blues of Blind Willie Johnson to New Orleans soul, by delta blues and hard Texas blues to bluegrass and country. "Put Yourself in My Place" is Pat's first album. This album, a splendid varied album with melodious fine songs, has been mostly inspired by experiences in the relational area. Using timeless instruments such as acoustic and electric guitars, drums, keyboards (and a beautiful sax solo by Billy Warren in the bluesy "Evil Evil") all numbers on this CD one after the other are splendid tales in themselves. From the acoustic gospel blues in the opening titeltrack to the last gem, the instrumental "Soul Mate", we are treated to an hour or more of quiet soul/blues in "I'm Jealous" and "Setting Yourself Up To Be Lonely", the rockende "I Can't Go On" and beside still some other instrumentals are our favorites - the blues songs: "Mean Streak", "Carolee", "Bad Habit" and already named "Evil Evil". Listening even over and over to this disc, it is extraordinarily
worth it. For this reason this relative unknown Pat Carr the designated
CD of the month has deserved very well.
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