Conqueroo

Conqueroo

Editorial Reviews
<"b0000c8au45020"> All Music Guide, June 2003
This disc deserves the W.C. Handy Award for Album of the Year in 2003.

<"b0000c8au45019"> Blues Matters!, August/September 2003
Fresh, delicate but powerful... His lyrics are thoughtful, playful, even poetic. Conqueroo on Yellow Dog Records is a beautiful album.

<"b0000c8au44999"> Album Description
From acclaimed Americana/Blues guitarist William Lee Ellis, godson and namesake of legendary bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe, comes "Conqueroo", a song cycle steeped in the musical language of Appalachia and the Delta.

Ellis's most personal record to date, "Conqueroo" is also his most eclectic, a place where a cappella gospel, mountain balladry and rockabilly rhythms intertwine with Big Star-like melancholy, pristine country melodies and song structures that create a new language from old archetypes.

Accompanied by longtime pal Larry Nager, Memphis soul group the Masqueraders, vocalists Susan Marshall and Reba Russell, and his internationally renowned father, Tony Ellis, William Lee Ellis lays out 13 elegant, eloquent tunes, ranging from the soulful ("How the Mighty Have Fallen") to the heartfelt ("King of the Mountain"), while touching on every emotion in between. On "Conqueroo", Ellis is the vanquisher, the gentle master in control of his own musical destiny.

Conqueroo

Conqueroo, Music, William Lee Ellis, Acclaimed Americana/Blues guitarist pens a song cycle steeped in the musical language of Appalachia and the Delta. Named "Best of 2003" by Acoustic Guitar magazine., Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Memphis Blues, Blues, Blues Music, Contemporary Country, Country, Delta Blues, Folk-Blues, Juke Joint Blues, Minstrel, Modern Acoustic Blues, Piedmont Blues, Pop, Slide Guitar Blues, Soul-Blues, United States of America

Conqueroo

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