Name: Lucky Man
Brand: Blind Pig
SKU: 20559530
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Lucky Man

Rating

Album: Lucky Man
#	Song Title	Time
1)	My Girl Josephine
2)	Cold Chills
3)	Gray's Bounce
4)	Out of the Road
5)	Lucky, Lucky Man
6)	I'll Be Up Again Someday
7)	Mojo Boogie
8)	Mean Old World
9)	I'm Talkin' About You
10)	It Ain't No Use
11)	Boogie In the Dark
12)	Finger Snappin' Boogie

Album: Lucky Man
#	Song Title	Time
1)	My Girl Josephine
2)	Cold Chills
3)	Gray's Bounce
4)	Out of the Road
5)	Lucky, Lucky Man
6)	I'll Be Up Again Someday
7)	Mojo Boogie
8)	Mean Old World
9)	I'm Talkin' About You
10)	It Ain't No Use
11)	Boogie In the Dark
12)	Finger Snappin' Boogie

Performer Notes

Personnel: Henry Gray (vocals, piano); Steve Freund (guitar); Willie Smith (drums).
Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl.
Recording information: Acme Studios, Chicago, IL.
Photographer: James Fraher.
Renowned as a piano-rippling sideman on the 1950s Chicago scene, Henry Gray returned to his native Louisiana in 1968 before anyone recorded him too prolifically as a leader. This album at least partially makes up for the oversight; backed by a solid Chicago combo, Gray alternates his own stuff with classics by Big Maceo, Little Walter, and Jimmy Reed, his ruminative voice and rumbling ivories prowess nicely spotlighted. ~ Bill Dahl

Professional Reviews

Down Beat (p.52) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With Gray] thumping the piano keys on his own boogies and on venerable perennials of Chicago or New Orleans origins."

Living Blues (pp.66-67) - "The title song, a bluesman/player's anthem, features Willie Smith's mid-tempo boogie-shuffle at its most propulsive, and Gray's barrelhouse treble splays add appropriately hot spicing to the mix..."