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 Documentary: YouTube - "Miss Mean" (FYI: w "Bandino" - bass)

Resurrection Blues - An Interview w/ guitarist: The true facts of life. Not museum music, but evolving & alive. - Michael Limnios, Blues Netwk.

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A Geyser of Blues Notes: The Metro Fountain Blues Festival looks to the future of the genre - 

"BAILEY IS something of an anomaly: a guitarist & singer equally adept at playing free (J)azz & blackbelt Delta boogie. Predictably, the Watts, Calif., native has received more recognition in Europe than he has in his own back yard. This despite the fact that he has worked w/ such legendary figures as LaVerne Baker, Big Joe Turner, Ruth Brown & Horace Tapscott.

Bailey began picking out melodies on piano at age 2. By the time he was 14, Bailey had switched to guitar, backing up the national acts in neighborhood clubs. When I ask him how a high school kid wound up performing w/ the likes of Lowell Fulson, he maintains it was no big deal: "They needed a guitarist, & I could play."

The years he spent as a self-proclaimed "hired gun" were invaluable. "My biggest goal was to play any style w/ anybody," he recalls. When [fellow bandmembers] were out chasing women, I'd be up in my hotel room studying & practicing different things."

Bailey started playing, he tells me, "because I heard Wes Montgomery on the radio, doing things I'd never heard [before]." It wasn't so much Montgomery's style that appealed to him as it was his ability to move chords around & make octaves sing. Futuristic improvisational-music god Sun Ra also had a profound impact.

Today, Bailey is as much at home reeling off avant-bop (J)azz harmonics as he is delving into 12-bar blues--& points in between. Indeed, it is Bailey's wide-ranging background that makes Satan's Horn (Zoo) such a delight.

Though steeped in the blues, the album is littered w/ quirky twists & turns. On songs like "Miss Mean," Bailey's guitar states the shufflelike theme, then embellishes it with chunks of chordal work. A stuttering rush of descending notes marks the tune's wild finish.

The title track commences w/ gently fluttering, slightly dissonant (J)azz guitar before mutating into a blistering, rhythmic groove. The lyric is as demon-possessed as any Robert Johnson number.

Though his playing is as modern as tomorrow, Bailey finds himself going back to the old masters for his own listening pleasure. "I can't get enough of guys like B.B. King, Eric Dolphy & [John] Coltrane. The new stuff I don't really like; it just doesn't have enough of the blues feel to it." He mentions certain very popular artists as particularly guilty of putting the blues on the back burner. "My whole thing is to fit the blues into whatever I'm doing," he asserts. "Whether it's a bossanova beat, rock or whatever, I go back to the roots." - Nicky Baxter, metroactive music

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