Samantha Fish, Jesse Dayton – Death Wish Blues (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Samantha Fish, Jesse Dayton – Death Wish Blues (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 38:58 minutes | 742 MB | Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rounder

Samantha Fish has received practically every accolade a contemporary blues singer/songwriter/guitarist could hope for. She’s a festival headliner with multiple Blues Music Awards, who has graced the cover of guitar magazines and toured internationally to packed houses. Fish commands her cathartic shows with her edgy vocal delivery and in-your-face slide guitar. Jesse Dayton is an American musician, actor and record producer best known for his guitar contributions to albums by country musicians including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson. He is also notable for his collaborations with horror film director Rob Zombie, who has commissioned Dayton on multiple occasions to record music to accompany his films. In recent years Dayton has released several critically acclaimed solo albums. Together Fish and Dayton teamed up with Producer Jon Spencer of the electrifying Jon Spencer’s Blues Explosion for Death Wish Blues, the first collaboration for the duo. The result is a highly enjoyable set of sharply composed songs that prominently feature searing guitar and sultry vocals, delivered with Fish’s signature blues rock sound.

Sat at the table of contemporary blues-rock, these two are having an absolute feast. On the one hand, Samantha Fish is a singer and guitarist from Kansas City, full of typical Southern banter and eclecticism. On the other, Texan guitarist and singer, Jesse Dayton, is the pistolero of the series B Americana, an artist who is equally as comfortable with Rob Zombie as on an album of Kinky Friedman covers or on stage with X. They met a decade ago (Samantha Fish was a fan of Jesse Dayton) and released their first single together in 2022 (the EP Stardust Sessions). For this new album-length duet recording, it’s the excited Jon Spencer, of the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, who acts as the go-between in his role as producer and artistic adviser. It would not be an unfair comparison to say that his mediation was reminiscent of a dynamite stick in a bowl of chilli. The basic premise (of festive electric blues-rock, which makes you thirsty and makes you want to tap your feet, and maybe even take your clothes off) is boosted and refined by the production of Jon Spencer, an eternal magician of sexy gimmicks and killer details. This augmented duo doesn’t invent anything, but yet it triggers a firework display of crazy guitars and vocal interjections based on “yeah !!!!” and “ oh oh oh !!!!” (and often both in the same sentence). Everyone seems to be having a lot of fun on this album which celebrates the simple joys of funky rock ‘n’ roll and its bluesy roots. Purists probably won’t like it, but everyone else will really enjoy this burger and fries kind of album. -Stéphane Deschamps

Tracklist:
1-1. Samantha Fish – Deathwish (02:39)
1-2. Samantha Fish – Down In The Mud (02:52)
1-3. Samantha Fish – Riders (03:40)
1-4. Samantha Fish – Settle For Less (03:08)
1-5. Samantha Fish – Trauma (03:06)
1-6. Samantha Fish – No Apology (04:16)
1-7. Samantha Fish – Flooded Love (02:39)
1-8. Samantha Fish – Lover On The Side (02:48)
1-9. Samantha Fish – Rippin’ And Runnin’ (04:21)
1-10. Samantha Fish – Dangerous People (03:31)
1-11. Samantha Fish – Supadupabad (02:06)
1-12. Samantha Fish – Know My Heart (03:47)

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