Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions

Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
Studio album by James Blood Ulmer
Released	May 8, 2007
Recorded	2006
Genre	Blues
Length	48:48
Label	Hyena Records
Producer	Vernon Reid
James Blood Ulmer chronology
Back in Time (2005) Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions (2007) In and Out (2009)

Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in New Orleans at the Piety Street Recording Studios and released on the Hyena label in 2007.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states, "The creative place Blood finds himself in his partnership with Reid is yielding great fruit. This album is the strongest of their collaborations thus far, and is a wild ride through blues, R&B, and hard-driving distorted and feedback-laced — yet utterly musical — New Orleans funk. It's a monster".[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[3]

Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated

1. "Survivors of the Hurricane" – 3:53
2. "Sad Days, Lonely Nights" (Junior Kimbrough) – 5:59
3. "Katrina" – 3:46
4. "Let's Talk About Jesus" – 4:19
5. "This Land Is Nobody's Land" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:18
6. "Dead presidents" (Willie Dixon, William R. Emerson) – 4:40
7. "Commit a Crime" (Chester Burnett) – 5:21
8. "Grinnin' in Your Face" (Eddie J. House Jr.) – 4:36
9. "There Is Power in the Blues" – 2:28
10. "Backwater Blues" (Traditional) – 5:52
11. "Old Slave Master" – 2:36

• • Recorded at Piety Street Studios, New Orleans in 2006

Personnel

• James Blood Ulmer – guitar, vocals
• Vernon Reid – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Charles Burnham – violin, mandolin
• Leon Gruenbaum – Fender Rhodes, piano, Hammond B3 organ, keyboards, mellotron, clarinet
• David Barnes – harmonica
• Mark Peterson – electric bass, double bass
• Aubrey Dayle – drums, percussion
• Irene Datcher – vocals (track 4)

References

1. James Blood Ulmer discography Archived 2009-11-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed July 29, 2010
2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed July 27, 2010
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1431. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.