If you have been listening to any of our Songs of the Week over the year, there will be a few tropes that you might have noticed. In essence, if a song is sung by a ‘unique’ voice, includes a ‘great’ guitar solo, has a wailing Hammond organ in the background and has that ‘classic’ boom-chick-a-boom rhythm, then we will love it! Of course, ‘unique’ and ‘great’ in the previous sentence are subjective; by hey, we at Iona Cali get to pick the Songs!
And so, for Week No. 16 (Part Two 2024), we have selected a song called Just Like Rain by Tinsley Ellis from his album Devil May Care, released in 2022. Ellis is described online as “an American blues and rock musician, who was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on June 4th 1957. He grew up in South Florida, and according to Billboard Magazine, "nobody has released more consistently excellent blues albums than Atlanta's Tinsley Ellis. He sings like a man possessed and wields a mean lead guitar”.
To date, he has released some 23 platters since his debut back in 1982, and given what Billboard said about him, I must check out his blues work!
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