Adam Schultz\u2019s debut CD Soulful Distancing<\/i> kicks of with an energized rendition of \u201cReal Mother For Ya\u201d originally by Johnny \u201cGuitar\u201d Watson, the renowned blues guitarist who found greater success dipping his strings into the swamp that was funk and disco in the \u201970s. <\/p>\n
The album consists of 11 tracks including five Schultz originals. Guest musicians include Schultz\u2019s musical mentor Clarence Spady, a 2009 Blues Music Award nominee for Soul Blues Album of the year, who co-produced the album with Douglas Schultz, and sang lead vocals on many of the tracks. Other artists include Adam Cohen on bass (Ray Charles, Engelbert Humperdinck), Robert O\u2019Connell on keyboards, Tom Hamilton on sax (Dizzy Gillespie, The Temptations), Sharon O\u2019Connell on drums, and Scott Brown on piano. Ekat Pereyra delivers vocals to the song \u2018Have Some Faith\u2019 and Michael Angelo sings on the other four originals. Jon Ventre plays ocasional bass on two songs and Pat Marcinko adds some percussion. <\/p>\n
Like many new blues artists, Schultz\u2019s guitar playing demonstrates decent studio chops for a guitar player so young (he was born 2002).\u00a0 The repertoire ranges from light blues to west coast jazz-rock funk \u2013 as a calling card, it demonstrates a keen understanding of the genres without breaking new musical territory.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Had I been the producer of the album, after sound check I would have sent the entire ensemble out to a bar to relax, have a beer, a game of pool, a knife fight in the car park and come back with a little more fire in their veins. The sound is recorded perfectly and any mistakes there might have been were perfectly manicured away like blemishes on a super-model\u2019s magazine cover. Stand out tracks include the mid-tempo funk of \u201cHave Some Faith\u201d sung by Ekat Pereyra, and \u201cHarlem Tonight\u201d with Spady on vocals. <\/p>\n
Overall a well-made album, Soulful Distancing<\/i> is a little too polite and dry for my tastes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":34342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10663],"rating":[5614],"class_list":["post-46177","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-adam-schultz","rating-rating-c-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46177"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}