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MoFro, Blackwater
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1590684
Disk length: 1h 19m 44s (14 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2001
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Blackwater | 7:09 |
| 2. Ho Cake | 5:53 |
| 3. Air | 3:55 |
| 4. Jookhouse | 3:19 |
| 5. Nare Sugar | 4:17 |
| 6. Free | 2:56 |
| 7. Florida | 4:11 |
| 8. Cracka Break | 1:22 |
| 9. Lazy Fo Acre | 4:41 |
| 10. Santa Claus, True Love and Freedom | 6:47 |
| 11. Frog Giggin' | 1:57 |
| 12. Whitehouse | 6:08 |
| 13. Brighter Days | 11:15 |
| 14. Data | 15:44 |
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Review
Florida's Mofro know you don't need a studio full of fancy effects to make a funky record. The act's debut CD spins tales from the Blackwater region around "front-porch soul," a stripped-down collection of bottom-heavy beats and hip-shaking rhythms. This is the kind of record G. Love should be making, a flawlessly tight package of funk, gospel, blues, and rock & roll fronted by singer/songwriter J.J. Grey. Although there are a number of instruments filling out the songs--slide guitar, bass, harmonica, keyboards, sax, and percussion--the arrangements all feel sparse enough to create an organic, authentic, easygoing vibe throughout the record. From the early Rolling Stones-esque blues of "Brighter Days" to the mouthwatering funk of "Ho Cake," Blackwater pays the highest respects to this area of northern Florida, both musically and lyrically. --Jennifer MaerzFRONT PORCH SOUL & LIVE "JOOKHOUSE" FUNK from the Blackwater region of North Florida...
MOFRO is led by singer / songwriter JJ Grey who grew up outside Jacksonville, developing a taste for raw grooves and living a life to inspire his soulful lyrics. Blackwater, Mofro's debut release on Fog City Records, maintains the label's focus on musicianship, fat tones and good times, deepened by insights into a place and culture that is slipping away with Florida's steady march to "progress".
Guest drummer George Sluppick (on loan from Robert Walter's 20th Congress) says: "I feel like we've connected with each other on a very deep level... it's funky and groovin', like fried catfish and turnip greens... it's uplifting and spiritual, like grits and bacon... it's Southern to the core. My peoples!"
Special guest: Robert Walter (Fog City recording artist and founding member of The Greyboy Allstars)
Recommended side dish: Pan fried Cracker Meal shrimp with hush puppies.
This is an ENHANCED CD: In addition to more than an hour of boombox-optimized barbeque soul, this CD can also be placed in the CD-ROM drive of most computers for a multimedia experience that includes a full screen video (recorded in studio during the Blackwater sessions), "hands on" interactive mixer, virtual reality studio tour and bonus audio tracks on CDROM... it's got soul, and it's superbad!
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Tracks: 14, Disk length: 1h 19m 46s (+0m 2s)
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