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Delbert McClinton & Dick50 - Acquired Taste Audio CD

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Delbert McClinton & Dick50 Band: Delbert McClinton & Dick50
Title: Acquired Taste
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Release Date: 2009-08-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Mama's Little Baby 2: Starting A Rumor 3: Can't Nobody Say I Didn't Try 4: Never Saw It Comin 5: Do It 6: I Need To Know 7: People Just Love To Talk 8: Until Then 9: Willie 10: Wouldn't You Think (Should ve Been Here By Now) 11: She's Not There Anymore 12: When She Cries At Night 3:08 13: Cherry Street 14: Out Of My Mind

Not up to par
Delbert sounds tired (which he has a right to be, I guess) and the whole effort is just weak. I have been a Delbert fan for many years but this latest album is just not up to par. Spend your money on almost any other Delbert album. .


average album from great artist
His music stands the test of time. Delbert McClinton is an original. He is a great artist but not a great songwriter and he wrote most of this. Too many of the songs should not have made the album which is another part of the problem that makes Aquired Taste a disappointment. All the rest of his work is 4 or 5 star. If you have nearly everything he has recorded, then buy this. While not nearly his best, it is better than nearly all blues ( his songs are old school r & b type) and country music being put out by other artists today. As with his other work, these songs are a mixture of both genres but, unlike his other work, this cd is very heavy on the ballads. .


The Old man's still got it.
"Momma's Little Baby" is a re write of the old "Shortnin' Bread" song and McClinton cooks it up and makes it his own. Vintage Delbert. "Starting a Rumor" is a belly rubbing dance number delivered as no one but Delbert can.
If you love Delbert's older stuff, you'll love this too.


Acquired taste indeed
If this is your first exposure to Delbert, consider some older work, for example One of the Fortunate Few as a better starting point. As a Delbert fan for a long time, I have often said that Delbert McClinton could sing the phone book and I'd buy it, and some of the songs on this disk veer dangerously close to phone book material.

I recently heard Delbert live, and he still is in fine voice on both the new and the older material, backed with the tight group credited as Dick50 here--but they really kicked over the traces on the old stuff. "Old Weakness" was an adrenaline blast. Their musicianship showed on the slower material, as well, but it showed the age in Delbert's voice. Interestingly, though, my wife and I agreed that his voice sounded stronger and more vital live than on record.

One difference is that I noticed that Delbert has a writing credit on all of these songs, which is admirable, but songwriting was never his strength, and he might have been wise to pick some stronger outside material to mix in with his own. "Starting a Rumor" holds up well, and "Willie" rocks its double and triple entendres with a wry smile.

Maybe my three-star rating is because I want my Delbert rocking the country blues, not waxing sentimental or philosophical. If you favor the slower songs, rate this four stars.


Such a disappointment!
I thought about listening to some track samples before I bought this CD, but figured: Why bother? It's Delbert. I am a HUGE Delbert fan. It's got to be good! Unfortunately, it's not. It's just too talky -- way too heavy on lyrics and not nearly enough music, not enough of the band. The good old rocking Texas blues is missing. One of the songs made me feel like I was sitting in Country Bear Jamboree. There's a couple of tracks I might listen to again, but then I'd have to punch through the rest of the CD and it's just not worth it. .


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