Hot Foot Powder [Bonus Track] [Digipak]

Performer: Peter Green
Artist: Otis Rush; Dr. John; Buddy Guy; David "Honeyboy" Edwards
Engineer: Roger Cotton; Howard Johnson; Matt Oliver; Justin Lieberman; Larry Sturm; Tim Donovan; Van Christie
Producer: Nigel Watson; Roger Cotton; P.A. Green; Roger Cotton; Peter Green; Nigel Watson
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: Peter Green: Peter Green (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Brian Bull (guitar); Pete Stroud (acoustic bass guitar); Nigel Watson, Roger Cotton, Larry Tolfree. Personnel: Nigel Watson (vocals, guitar, slide guitar); Roger Cotton (guitar, piano); Honeyboy Edwards, Hubert Sumlin, Joe Louis Walker, Otis Rush (guitar); Dr. John (piano); Peter Stroud (upright bass); Larry Tolfree (drums). Additional personnel: David Honeyboy Edwards, Buddy Guy (guitar); Dr. John, Hubert Sumlin, Joe Louis Walker, Otis Rush. Recording information: Roundel Studio, Kent, England; Zero 1 Studio. Hot Foot Powder is Peter Green's second album made up entirely of covers of the music by the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. In fact, with this album and its predecessor, The Robert Johnson Songbook, Green has recorded every song that Robert Johnson is known to have composed and recorded. Where Johnson often played and sang like a man whose life depended on it, Green plays and sings like a man whose next beer depends on it, surprisingly with very nice results. His performance on the title track is marvelously lazy and laid-back throughout this bluesy album, which also features Green's band, the Splinter Group, including Nigel Watson. Dr. John, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, and Joe Louis Walker all make guest appearances on the album, along with Honey Boy Edwards, who knew and performed with Robert Johnson. The only slight drawback to this album are the few vocal performances of Nigel Watson, who is, perhaps, technically a better vocalist than Peter Green; however, his voice lacks Green's soulful weariness. Hot Foot Powder's packaging, designed by 9th Planet, is both a creative and fun complement to the music within. ~ Tim Griggs Robert Johnson, revered by many as the greatest of bluesmen, gets a second makeover here by Peter Green, rightly considered one of the best blues guitar players ever and, like Johnson, at one time or another shrouded in his fair share of mystery and speculation. Together with a clutch of veteran blues musicians, Green, Nigel Watson and the Splinter Group pay 13 loving tributes to Delta bluesman Johnson whose compositions have graced the repertoire of rock and blues bands ever since Clapton first tried to flag a ride down at the crossroads in 1968. Green takes most of the vocals with Watson singing lead on just four tracks including the frantic "Preachin' Blues" and the doom-laden "Hellhound On My Trail" (once recorded in 1968 by Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac). Dr. John helps out on "From Four Until Late" with some trademark barrelhouse piano. That's him too swinging behind a foot-tapping version of "They're Red Hot." A worthy follow-up to the much acclaimed ROBERT JOHNSON SONGBOOK, HOT FOOT POWDER (incidentally a voodoo spell ingredient mentioned in "Hellhound�") shows the Splinter Group paying another sincere tribute to one of the most influential blues artists of all time Hot Foot Powder is Peter Green's second album made up entirely of covers of the music by the legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson. In fact, with this album and its predecessor, The Robert Johnson Songbook, Green has recorded every song that Robert Johnson is known to have composed and recorded. Where Johnson often played and sang like a man whose life depended on it, Green plays and sings like a man whose next beer depends on it, surprisingly with very nice results. His performance on the title track is marvelously lazy and laid-back throughout this bluesy album, which also features Green's band, the Splinter Group, including Nigel Watson. Dr. John, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, and Joe Louis Walker all make guest appearances on the album, along with Honeyboy Edwards, who knew and performed with Robert Johnson. The only slight drawback to this album are the few vocal performances of Nigel Watson, who is technically, perhaps, a better vocalist than Peter Green; however, his voice lacks Green's soulful weariness. Hot Foot Powder's packaging, designed by Ninth Planet, is both a creative and fun complement to the music within. [This version of the album includes bonus material.] ~ Tim Griggs

Mojo (Publisher) (5/00, p.94) - "...[They] have translated benign obsession into 2 albums of careful, almost devout, re-creation uplifted by the reviving spirit of true believers..."

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