Little Dave and Big Love

by Dave Thompson

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1.	Standing up on My Own 05:32	buy track
2.	You Took My Baby 03:51	buy track
3.	After Hours Bar 04:41	buy track
4.	I'm Having It so Hard 04:57	buy track
5.	Hey Moma 02:40	buy track
6.	Why Do You Treat Me This Way 03:47	buy track
7.	Instrumental #7 04:58	buy track
8.	Got a Bad Feeling 04:37	buy track
9.	Ain't It a Shame 03:07	buy track
10.	I Don't Care What Nobody Say 06:57	buy track
11.	Mississippi Boy 03:59	buy track

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Mississippi native Dave Thompson's displays blazing guitar chops and Hendrix-style vocals on a solid set of blues-rock tunes produced by the late Robert Palmer. At the time the album was recorded, Thompson was a 24-year-old guitar phenom touted as the next big thing by many blues critics. The artist hasn't been heard from since, which is a crying shame given his talent.

While the tunes here are standard blues-rock fare, Thompson's guitar playing is far from ordinary. He marries the down-home funky blues with a rock-oriented guitar style strongly derivative of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Albert King. Thompson uses a quarter instead of a pick to coax some powerful, metallic sounds out of his Stratocaster. He also coats his strings with WD40 so his fingers can glide more easily along the frets. The result is a hard-rocking blues recording peppered with scorching licks, both on electric slide and conventional electric guits.

Recorded in a one-day session at Jimmy's Auto Care in Oxford, Miss., Little Dave is a raw but accomplished album. Thompson's style is ferocious but not overly flashy. And when he sings about troubled times on songs like "I'm Having It So Hard" and "Got a Bad Feeling," he draws on personal experiences. Before he turned 25, Thompson survived two car crashes, a couple of jail sentences, a gunshot to his thigh, and a razor stabbing.

-Ed Kopp allaboutjazz.com

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released July 25, 1995

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