Name: My Lady Don't Love My Lady
Brand: Lee, Bryan
SKU: 283553
Price: 14.91 USD
Availability: InStock

Performer Notes

Personnel: Bryan Lee (vocals, guitar); Duke Robillard, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Buddy Guy (guitar); Gordon "Sax" Beadle (tenor saxophone); Doug James (baritone saxophone); David Maxwell (piano); Marty Ballou (upright bass); John Perkins (drums).
Audio Mixer: John Paul Gauthier.
Recording information: Lakewest Recording Studios, West Greenwich, RI (12/10/2008-06/??/2009); Rax Trax Studios, Chicago, IL (12/10/2008-06/??/2009); RPD Studios, Thousand Oaks, CA (12/10/2008-06/??/2009).
Author: Duke Robillard.
Over his 11 CDs plus a greatest-hits package for the Justin Time label, Bryan Lee has been one of the most consistently satisfying blues artists heard anywhere. Sporting a sly but sweet voice and more than competent, pleasing guitar style, Lee has made inroads into keeping the real urban blues tradition alive, where many others have either watered it down, rocked it out far too much, or funkified it past the point of recognition. Fans will be doubly pleased to hear Lee with an all-star showstopping band of heavy friends covering some truly classic material plus a few of the leader's originals based on pure downtown amplified Chicago blues. Producer and guitarist Duke Robillard heads the crew along with fellow former Roomful of Blues bandmate Doug James on baritone sax, the estimable bassist Marty Ballou, the fantastically talented pianist David Maxwell, Gordon "Sax" Beadle on tenor, and very special guest guitarists Buddy Guy and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. It's a horn-driven sound through and through with Lee's singing up-front where it belongs in the spirit of music that makes bad times feel better. Of Lee's original tunes, the title track might very well be a cautionary tale for philanderers, but is in fact the funky story of a woman pitted against Lee's wah-wah guitar, and whether it's the woman or the guitar spending time with him at night. "Me & My Music" has a similar either/or theme in a cool and wintry Chi-Town get-out-of-town mood, while "Too Many Wolves" is in a more disgustedly tiring mood at always looking over one's shoulder for rivals. The rest of the material is absolute classic blues, from Willie Mabon's slow and sly evergreen "I Don't Know" (which was popularized by the Blues Brothers) to the immortal Junior Wells slinky get-down tune "Early in the Morning" (with able help from the brilliant Guy), Big Bill Broonzy's "When I Been Drinking" (with Maxwell's deft and character-building piano), and Earl King's easy funk blues "Three Can Play the Game." Shepherd shows up on his upbeat shuffle "Let Me Up I've Had Enough," and the band cleanly tackles the soulful bompity-bomp number "Heartbreaker," penned by the late head honcho of Atlantic Records, Ahmet Ertegun. Beadle's feature "Reconsider Me" is every man's reconciliation plea as the band gets down to business. Lee generally takes the mellow route to the heart of authentic blues, with the bandmembers using completely unforced motion with no hidden agendas in the way they all play together. Of the many fine recordings Bryan Lee has issued over the years, this is close to his very best, and comes easily recommended. ~ Michael G. Nastos

Professional Reviews

Living Blues (p.56) - "[O]ne of those records that bleeds professionalism....MY LADY DON'T LOVE MY LADY is Bryan Lee at his smarmy, hepcat-sounding best."

Album: My Lady Don't Love My Lady
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Imitation of Love	More Info...
2)	I Don t Know	More Info...
3)	Three Can Play the Game	More Info...
4)	Early in the Morning	More Info...
5)	Let Me Up I ve Had Enough	More Info...
6)	Heartbreaker	More Info...
7)	Too Many Wolves	More Info...
8)	My Lady Don t Love My Lady	More Info...
9)	When I Been Drinking	More Info...
10)	Me and My Music	More Info...
11)	Reconsider Me	More Info...
12)	Just To Prove My Love to You	More Info...

Album: My Lady Don't Love My Lady
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Imitation of Love	More Info...
2)	I Don t Know	More Info...
3)	Three Can Play the Game	More Info...
4)	Early in the Morning	More Info...
5)	Let Me Up I ve Had Enough	More Info...
6)	Heartbreaker	More Info...
7)	Too Many Wolves	More Info...
8)	My Lady Don t Love My Lady	More Info...
9)	When I Been Drinking	More Info...
10)	Me and My Music	More Info...
11)	Reconsider Me	More Info...
12)	Just To Prove My Love to You	More Info...