James Harman Band, Cards on the Table - 54m 37s

Tracks & Durations

1. Night Ridin' Daddy	5:19
2. Where's My Thang?	7:28
3. Cards on the Table	3:49
4. 'Temporary Blues	5:01
5. Black Under Black	3:56
6. Don't Spoil My View	3:29
7. Three-Way Party	5:37
8. Sparks (start flyin')	3:52
9. Run, Run Tonight	2:38
10. Last Clean Shirt	4:19
11. I'll Call You	2:48
12. Crazy By Degrees	3:39
13. Walk the Streets (cold and lonely)	2:35

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Review

Unfortunately, on Cards on the Table, the usually restrained James Harman is a little too understated. In his quest for the subtlety of his favorite blues classics, the bandleader has fallen prey to a certain blandness. Harman and his righthand man, multi-instrumental whiz Jeff Turmes, wrote 12 of the album's 13 tunes. None of them match the concise catchiness of the other song, Leiber & Stoller's "Last Clean Shirt," but numbers like "Sparks" and "Crazy by Degrees" describe relationships gone wrong with sly wit and striking guitar riffs. Friend-of-the-band Anson Funderburgh adds some guitar to "Temporary Blues," and "Where's My Thang" and "Black Under Black" get the full-blown R&B treatment of female backup singers and a horn section. All these songs should be much more vivid in live performance. --Geoffrey Himes

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