2021 – Horton Records
By Phillip Smith; Sep. 4, 2021
Years of playing weekly gigs
at The Colony in Tulsa, Oklahoma has most definitely awarded a solid cohesiveness
to the sound of Seth Jones and his bandmates Bo Hallford (bass
guitar), and Matt Teegarden (drums).
Recording straight-to-tape in under seven and a half hours with no
overdubs, Jones and his band forged an extraordinary nine-track album of
fire-roasted blues-rock. Its name is Flathead.
For starters, Jones busts out with his own open-tuning version of Muddy Waters’ ”I Can’t Be Satisfied”. I love hearing the licks this luthier and third-generation guitarist tosses into the song. “It Was Raining” is absolutely beautiful. This is pure blues served up Texas-style and slow-cooked to perfection. I can’t help but hear a little Stevie Ray Vaughan on the intro of their cover of Howlin Wolf’s “You Gonna Wreck My Life”, and that’s just one of the reasons I like it. Jones’ redux of this classic is a quite powerful one, complete with blues-soaked vocals and an attention-grabbing guitar performance. The slide guitar on “Tulsa Time” is plumb terrific too. A number one hit on the country charts for Don Williams in 1978, and covered by Eric Clapton the same year, this song is timeless classic. Flathead wraps up with a head-turning performance of Ray Charles’ “Mary Ann” with guest guitarist Mike Satawake. This infectious, melodious song takes a short detour off the main road so Jones can let loose on guitar, and it sounds wonderful.
Flathead is surely one of those records every blues-rock fan will want in their collection. It’s that damn good.
Official
video for “Tulsa Time”
For more information about the artist, visit this website : https://sethleejones.com/
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