Artist: ROBBEN FORD
Album: BRINGING IT BACK HOME (CD)

Release date: 2013
Media type: CD

 Ford, who Musician magazine called one of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century," developed his reputation in the jazz and pop world of the 1970s and ’80s as a solo artist, a member of the ground-breaking fusion group L.A. Express and a sideman with Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis and others. But he emerged from northern California in the ’60s as part of the Charles Ford Blues Band. In that group — formed with his brothers and named after their father — he supported blues legends Jimmy Witherspoon and Charlie Musselwhite, getting a hands-on education in the style.

 Bringing It Back Home revisits and reshapes the roots of Ford’s first musical love. The guitar kingpin selected 10 tunes from the blues canon, ranging from early Delta pioneer Charley Patton’s “Bird’s Nest Bound” to Bob Dylan’s “You Go Your Way and I Go Mine,” and, along with a hand-picked team of A-list players, crafted dynamic, new and highly original arrangements for each song in the studio.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky
2. Birds Nest Bound
3. Fair Child
4. Oh, Virginia
5. Slick Capers Blues
6. On That Morning
7. Traveler’s Waltz
8. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)
9. Trick Bag
10. Fool’s Paradise

VINYL:

Side A: Track 1-5
Side B: Track 6-10