(Azzura Music TPB 11042)
#1 Italian guitar singer, Ruddy Rotta is well known blues personality among blues musicians and fans alike. His credentials place him easily near the top of European bluesmen as it really takes something to be able to play or share the stage with people like Allman Brothers, B.B. King, Joe Louis Walker, Son Seals, John Mayall, Luther Allison, Robben Ford and many more. Like his original style of playing, his latest CD “The Beatles In The Blues” is an original idea within the blues idiom which works surprisingly well! Each Beatles classic song on this CD gets fine, original and, sometimes, unusual treatment with strong blues vibe throughout. You almost get a feeling that The Beatles were a blues band after all! You may wonder if John Lennon wrote Dear Prudence with Rudy’s arrangement in mind, but couldn’t do it on Beatles’ album at the time! Norwegian Wood sounds like downhome Mississippi Delta blues with excellent acoustic guitar while Get Back is treated like it’s Al Green classic with that classic 60’s Memphis sound of Hi records. I’ve Got A Feeling is New Orleans gumbo at it’s best and Don’t Let Me Down arrangement begs Etta James to do it justice! In My Life, largely considered as the best song The Beatles ever wrote, closes this excellent CD with its easy going rolling piano and evocative Rudy’s vocal. Can The Beatles do the blues? Yes, of course!
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