kropp cd 'seven nights'

	Produced by Dieter Kropp Recorded Oct. - Dez. 2003 and mixed at Traveller Studio, Halle Westf./Germany by Erhard Kanicki.
	Dieter Kropp - harmonica & vocals Michael van Merwyk - guitar & lap steel guitar Harald Fricke - upright bass Thomas Bornemann - drums	Oliver Groenewald - trumpet, horn arrangements Kurt Studenroth - tenor & alto saxophone Anatole Gomersall - baritone saxophone Christoph Leo - trombone
With their current Seven Nights CD, Dieter Kropp & The Fabulous Barbecue Boys are continuing their musical path in a way that is consistent and true to style. They present the various facets of the blues genre with their own rousing authenticity: little compositional pearls from Louisiana, New Orleans, or California. Songs by musicians like Smiley Lewis, Dave Bartholomew, Lonesome Sundown, Otis Blackwell and Moon Mullican fuse with their own creative broadside and musical compactness, characteristics that undoubtedly make Dieter Kropp & The Fabulous Barbecue Boys one of the leading and most entertaining German representatives of the blues.

Seven Nights includes the brachial depths of a classic blues theme like “Laughing To Keep From Crying” in harmonious concord with the light-footedness of the swing track “Where Were You, Baby?” The wonderfully relaxed “Samplin’ Man” with its New Orlean’s rhythm is right next to the country adaptation of “My Little Girl.” The influences of swing, rhythm’n’blues, and jump blues are enriched and perfected by a four-man brass ensemble: Oliver Groenewald’s R&B Horns raise the roof and enthusiastically reflect this epoch during eight of the tracks. Their performance becomes almost compellingly programmatic for the “Barbecue Boogie”!

As a result, Seven Nights wonderfully radiates the sweaty elegance of a Forties nightclub, providing pure listening pleasure by coupling the passion of early rock’n’roll with the soulful atmosphere of deeply felt emotions that is anchored in the traditional blues. The expressive harmonica fireworks of protagonist Dieter Kropp – “one of the craftiest European harp-players” – gives all of this that splendid touch of extravaganza, creating the most recent work by Dieter Kropp & The Fabulous Barbecue Boys that critics have called a “great new, elegant and stylish album.” Brilliant.

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seven nights - Tracklist

01. Barbecue Boogie (Dieter Kropp / GEMA)
02. Lotsa Poppa (Jimmy Rushing)
03. Real Fine Love (Dieter Kropp / GEMA)
04. I'm a samplin' man (Cornelius Green / Excellorec Music, BMI)
05. Go on fool (David Bartholomew / Dorothy Ester, EMI Unart Catalog, Inc., BMI)
06. Tired of being alone (Dieter Kropp / GEMA)
07. I got love if you want it (James Moore / Excellorec Music, BMI)
08. My little girl (Dieter Kropp / GEMA)
09. Kropp'‚ Hop (Dieter Kropp / GEMA)
10. Where were you baby (Dieter Kropp / GEMA)
11. Sittin' and cryin' (Dieter Kropp / GEMA)
12. I just keep loving her (Walter Jacobs)
13. Laughing to keep from cryin' (Dieter Kropp / GEMA)
14. Daybreak (Gary Primich / Steve James, Old Pal Music - Shrub Music, BMI)
15. Don't be cruel (Otis Blackwell / Elvis Presley, BMI)
16. Nosey Neighbors (composer unknown)
17. Ain't that lovin' you (Clyde Otis / Ivory Joe Hunter, BMI)
18. Seven nights to rock (Buck Trail | Louis Innis / Henry Glover, Carlin Music Corp.)

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