Over Time
Editorial Reviews Like the man said, go ahead and drown yourself - in the blues.
<"b00000aeea5750"> Washington Post, 10/2/98
One of the best blues albums I’ve heard all year also sports one of the best album covers I have ever seen.
<"b00000aeea5540"> Charlotte Blues Society Newsletter, March 1999
W.C. Spencer may have appropriately titled this effort but any listener would be none the wiser for his economical style of play. Executed with such precision and depth, this collection will expand his ever-growing fan base and I can only hope that his travels will come through your town.
<"b00000aeea4999"> Album Description
After nearly a century, blues music, as an art form, continues to thrive and evolve. The musicians who live and play the blues have changed and have grown along with the music. W.C. Spencer is one of these people. The bluescat has amazed audiences in the U.S. and abroad with his own brand of rhythm & blues and this second album for Catscan picks up where the first album Bluescat leaves off. Spencer has accomplished what has been called impossible for singing and playing all of these instruments at one time. Take equal parts of bassist, guitarist, harmonicist, drummer, vocalist, inventor, writer and arranger; add a lot of hard work and you get...Over Time. A collection of blues from old to new, this album traces the journey from acoustic to electric blues and beyond with style and poise. From W.C. Handy’s Atlanta Blues (1915) to Arthur Pettis’ Goodboy Blues (1930) to Bell & Jones’s Born Under A Bad Sign (1967) to W.C.’s own Some of the Things I’ve Been Meaning To Do, Talk To Me, The Country Minstrel and I’m Your Monkey (1998); Spencer charts old and new territory alike with his live ensemble renditions of uptown, country, jazzy and original blues. In a genre inhabited by so many fine players, check out a real originator and intrepreter.
Over Time
Over Time, Music, W.C. Spencer, Baltimore Magazine calls him a “freak of nature or musical genius.” His straight-ahead style is economical and supple with nods to M. Bloomfield and Stevie Ray Vaughn; his slide playing is sly and sure. He excels on harmonica.Jas Obrecht, GP, Blues, Modern Electric Blues, Pop
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