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CADENCE

The Review of Jazz & Blues: Creative Improvised Music

By David Dupont

 

Mojo Stu, Good Gravy, Mudbone 2001

 

            Stuart Bryant, a.k.a. Mojo Stu, wears the mantle of traditional bluesman easily. He’s got an appropriately gruff baritone that he employs on songs, mostly of his own concoction., that stick to both the musical and lyric tradition of the Delta blues. Conversational melodies support the lyrics about women who, in true blues fashion, when they are good they are very, very good and when they are bad they are even better.

            He also happens to be a superb guitar player whose gritty, resonant lines compliment his vocals. The closing “Mudbone Waltz” is the best thing here, and nothing here is bad.

            Leaves me thinking, I’d hang out in a bar with this guy. What more can you say?

 

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