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Bluesology: Ghalia Volt s One Woman Band, Mick Kolassa, Sugar Ray and more Mike Greenblatt s monthly Bluesology column inspects the recent notes of Ghalia Volt s One Woman Band, Mick Kolassa, Sugar Ray and more. Author: Any new Mick Kolassa album is cause for celebration. This longtime champion of the blues helped The Blues Foundation become a guiding force in this music and, indeed, 100% of the proceeds from the sale of If You Can’t Be Good, Be Good At It (on his own Endless Blues Records) helps support that effort. And what an album! Give Jeff Jensen some credit here. The leader of his own band has settled into a groove with Kolassa over the latter’s last few album and here his guitar shrieks split the black night like lightning. Whether it’s Howling Wolf (“Who’s Been Talking”) or even James Taylor (“Lo And Behold”), the Kolassa/Jensen production gives the attention-to-detail highs priority while not sacrificing the big bass bottom. Kolassa� ....
OffBeat Magazine One Woman Band, is boldly minimalist and musically intriguing. Following recording sessions in New Orleans for Let the Demons Out and North Mississippi’s hill country for her Mississippi Blend, Volt recorded One Woman Band at the historic Royal Studios in Memphis. True to the album’s title, she simultaneously sings and plays slide guitar, drums and tambourine. Although bassist Dean Zucchero and guitarist “Monster” make a few contributions to the album, One Woman Band usually is a one-woman show, co-produced by Volt and Lawrence “Boo” Mitchell (Buddy Guy, Al, Green, Solomon Burke, Anthony Hamilton). The album opens with “Last Minute Packer,” a blues-rock song that pairs Volt’s pleasingly husky voice and impressive range with loud, distorted electric guitar and pounding, no-frills drums. A reverb fan, Volt drenches her slide guitar and Southern-country-sounding singing in the echo effect for “Espìritu Papàgo.� ....