Description
Clear pink vinyl
Blues-wailing keyboard man James Leg is best known as the lead singer and organ and piano pumper with the heavy blues rock band the Black Diamond Heavies; he’s also a solo artist who pursues his own career during the group’s downtime. Leg was born John Wesley Myers and hails from Port Arthur, Texas. His father was a preacher, and at a young age, John and his family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the youngster learned piano and played during his father’s services. When he was 15, he attended a tent revivalist’s sermon on the evils of secular music, and the young man who had been raised on gospel got a taste of some forbidden sounds, including the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, and AC/DC. John soon wanted to know more about the darker pleasures of the music he was supposed to avoid, and before long he was obsessed with blues and hard rock. By 2005, he had joined the final line-up of the Alabama-based punk blues band the Immortal Lee County Killers, and he also had launched the Black Diamond Heavies as a side project. When the Immortal Lee County Killers broke up in 2007, Myers made the Heavies his main gig and began using the stage name James Leg. In 2011, Leg made his solo debut with the appropriately hard-hitting Solitary Pleasure where he was joined by longtime friend and Cincinnati heavy hitter, Andy Jet Jody (The Gazelles, Pearlene, The Long Gones, The Customs, Oxford Cotton, Barrence Whitfield and The Savages) on drums.The album was recorded in December 2010 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, during a record cold snap, in the oldest standing church in Rutherford County, now the home of an all analogue studio called Grand Palace Studio. This is raw bluesy, soulful, howling growl, vital and funky garage rock; driven by dangerously potent R&B infected keyboards and a gritty, cigarette-ravaged throat-scratch of a voice that captures a genuinely crazed primal energy with heart-wrenching sincerity. Think Tom Waits before he got all weird, with a rock `n’ roll bug up his ass. Rock and Soul all night long.
Track listing:
1. Have To Get It On
2. Do How You Wanna
3. Nobody’s Fault
4. No Licence (Song For The Caged Bird)
5. Georgia
6. Fire And Brimstone
7. Whatever It Takes
8. Drowning In Fire
9. Drinking Too Much
10. No Time To Tarry