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About Hands Across The Table
Product Description Sugar Ray & the Bluetones are back with Hands Across the Table. Following up Sugar Ray & the Bluetones (featuring Monster Mike Welch), The Bluetones deliver their signature brand of hard driving blues complete with guitar by new Bluetone Paul Size, killer harmonica and a beautiful performance delivered by one of today's premier blues vocalists, Sugar Ray Norcia. Also includes guest performances by The Providence Horns. Packaged in a 6 panel digipak. Amazon.com Few traditional bluesmen have the swinging elegance and vocal grace of ex- frontman Sugar Ray Norcia. And this is his finest solo album, full of warm performances and well-written original tunes. Even when Sugar Ray's grinding out a Chicago shuffle like "I Done Got Wise," both his warm singing and his harp solos create luxurious melodies full of richly sustained notes that carefully underscore the deep emotions that put life in his lyrics. The title cut and "The Last Blues Song" are among his best numbers. The former explores the pain of possible infidelity and the latter is a secular prayer for a better world, set to a spare piano arrangement that gives Sugar Ray room to weave colorful filigrees and wide dynamics into his vocal phrases. He's also got a skillful journeyman Bluetones lineup here, with fellow Roomful alums Doug James and Carl Querfurth on sax and trombone; veteran Handy-nominated Michael "Mudcat" Ward on bass; Neal Gouvin on drums; and on guitar, Paul Size, who comfortably fills the seat formerly held by Ronnie Earl and Mike Welch. They play together with transparent mastery, giving the boss plenty of license to exercise his considerable talents. --Ted Drozdowski
