Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - Maxwell Street '2016

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[05:37] 01. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - Mother Angel
[05:41] 02. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - Elegy For A Bluesman
[06:00] 03. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - In Memory Of T-Bone
[06:18] 04. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - Kismet
[11:43] 05. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - Double Trouble
[04:19] 06. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - (Ive Got To Use My) Imagination
[08:25] 07. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - Blues For David Maxwell
[08:03] 08. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - You Dont Know Me
[04:57] 09. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - Brojoe
[07:07] 10. Ronnie Earl And The Broadcasters - As The Years Go Passing By

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Stony Plain Records announces a September 9 release date for Maxwell Street, the
new CD from three-time Blues Music Award winner as “Guitarist of the
Year,” Ronnie Earl and his band, the Broadcasters.

Maxwell Street is named in honor of the late blues pianist and previous member
of the Broadcasters, David Maxwell, and is also a nod to Chicago’s famed
Maxwell Street, where blues musicians gathered to play outside for the Sunday
market crowds.

Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters are: Ronnie Earl – guitar; Lorne Entress
– drums; Dave Limina – piano and Hammond B3 organ; Jim Mouradian
– bass; and Diane Blue – vocals. Special guest guitarist on the
album is Nicholas Tabarias. Maxwell Street was produced by Ronnie Earl and
recorded at Wellspring Studios in Acton, Massachusetts, and Wooly Mammoth
Studios in Waltham, Mass. Ronnie formed his band, the Broadcasters, in 1988.

“This album is dedicated to my big brother David Maxwell,” says
Ronnie Earl. “We were born on the same day ten years apart. His playing
was as deep as the ocean, as high as the sky and as bright as a quasar. When he
passed, I felt a huge loss as I still do. David was a Broadcaster and he and I
made a few records together. It was always a supreme honor to play with him. He
played blues as well as jazz with incredible expression from Otis Spann to Cecil
Taylor. He knew and loved it all. He became Otis Spann in the later years. Our
pianist David Limina wrote a tune (“Elegy for a Bluesman”) that
captures the feeling of the album and we all send our love and respect to
David’s family and all of our love and gratitude for David
Maxwell.”

Maxwell Street showcases 10 tracks, including six originals, plus exciting
covers of songs by Otis Rush (one of Ronnie’s main musical mentors),
“Double Trouble;” Gladys Knight (“I’ve Got to Use My)
Imagination;” Eddy Arnold, “You Don’t Know Me;” and the
blues/soul chestnut, “As the Years Go Passing By,” which closes the
album.

Ronnie and the band performed a special set at the recent Chicago Blues Festival
in honor of Otis Rush. In his review of that concert, DownBeat writer Jeff
Johnson singled out Ronnie for praise: “Perhaps the most heartfelt
expression came from the guitar of Ronnie Earl. His playing was a study in
economy, yet electrifying enough to make the hairs on your neck stand on end on
the seminal Rush tune, “Double Trouble.”

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