{"id":3275,"date":"2024-09-06T00:04:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T00:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/?p=3275"},"modified":"2024-09-06T00:06:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T00:06:50","slug":"ftv-just-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/?p=3275","title":{"rendered":"FTV: Just Deserts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Our good friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Music in Milwaukee recently sent along Jim Eannelli\u2019s first solo album <\/span>Just Deserts<\/span><\/i> which is set to be released in both digital and physical formats on September 27, 2024. \u00a0 Yours truly was visiting Eugene, Oregon to catch John Forgety\u2019s 56th Anniversary Celebration concert.\u00a0 When the <\/span>Just Deserts <\/span><\/i>file arrived, I was in the process of testing positive for my first go around with COVID.\u00a0 I was a little dismayed that I managed to contract this accursed virus having traveled masked through three airports on the 17 hour trip to Eugene.\u00a0 Of course I managed to share it with my hosts Elizabeth and Todd at the WOAS West Coast Bureau.\u00a0 Luckily the strain we contracted had mild symptoms and the rest of my west coast adventure was uneventful (minus the 17 hour return trip (masked) via Denver and Chicago on the hottest most humid day of the late summer).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Isolating at the WCB meant I had ample time to re-acquaint myself with Eannelli.\u00a0 I first encountered his work on four albums Daystorm Music sent to us by Peggy James where Jim\u00a0 served as producer and guitarist.\u00a0 With the release of his new album pending, I dug back into his musical biography to find out more about this outstanding guitarist.\u00a0 To say he has had a long and varied career would be an understatement as his first gig was as the bass player in a rhythm and blues band called The Soul Sensations back in 1966.\u00a0 Between then and his most recent work with Peggy James, he had been the bass player or guitarist in numerous bands playing everything from punk (The Blackholes) to rock (Blackjack) to new wave (The Shivvers), to techno pop (Colour Radio).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If those don\u2019t provide Jim enough street cred to hang his guitar on, we should also mention his stints with drumming great Kenny Baldwin (Locate Your Lips), bass guitar duties with disco band Montreal, rocking blues band The Shuffleaires,\u00a0 lead guitar duties with The Peggy James Band, performing as the frontman in the power trio The Milktrain, and guitar with the rocking bluegrass band Salt Creek.\u00a0 Did we mention his session work with Victor DeLorenzo (former drummer with the Violent Femmes), Sam Llanas (former BoDean), Martin Jack Rosenblum,\u00a0 his longtime musical collaborator Lil Rev, and (as previously mentioned) Peggy James.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jim Eannelli didn\u2019t just fall off the turnip truck and his vast array of influences certainly show up in the songs on <\/span>Just Deserts.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>Lil\u2019 Rev worked with Eannelli on his 20th album (<\/span>Unheard:\u00a0 Songs from the Street<\/span><\/i>) and credits the \u2018sonic dimension\u2019 Jim added to his new record where he played guitar, drums, bass and keyboards.\u00a0 Lil\u2019 Rev says, \u201cWe recorded previous albums live with very little overdubbing.\u00a0 By contrast, Eannelli\u2019s production for <\/span>Unheard<\/span><\/i> is multi tracked without losing the music’s organic sensibility.\u201d\u00a0 In his impressive career, Eannelli\u00a0 has also shared bills with Leslie West, Rick Derringer, Nils Lofgren, the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Iggy Pop, The Romantics, Cheap Trick, and The Guess Who to name just a few.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Just Deserts<\/span><\/i> kicks off with the track <\/span>29 Women<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 It is a catchy tune with a nice driving. \u00a0 It is followed up with <\/span>Where I\u2019ve Been<\/span><\/i> that features great acoustic guitar with slide (or pedal steel) work throughout.\u00a0 Having been around a lot of artists and different genres of music, Eannelli\u2019s has a chameleon quality that makes him sound like his influences without losing his own voice.\u00a0 <\/span>Where I\u2019ve Been<\/span><\/i> reminded me a bit of Chris Isaak\u2019s best work.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The relaxed, slow shuffle of <\/span>New for You <\/span><\/i>is carried by a nice bass line.\u00a0 The vocals are a perfect match to the feel of this tune.\u00a0 <\/span>Train from Chicago <\/span><\/i>features another catchy opening riff augmented with fluid guitar lines laid out in a nice reverb bed.\u00a0 The build up for the next track, <\/span>Waitin\u2019 <\/span><\/i>takes you into a full acoustic sound backing emotional, but not maudlin, vocals.\u00a0 One feels this song as much as one hears it.\u00a0 <\/span>Christine <\/span><\/i>is another song leaning toward wistful, again with a lot of emotion in the lyrics and delivery.\u00a0 I really liked the change of pace that takes place around the 3:50 mark and continues to the end of the song.\u00a0 It is a very cool effect.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Young Girl<\/span><\/i> is where I got the hint of Roy Orbison.\u00a0 In fact, the middle tracks of <\/span>Just Deserts <\/span><\/i>\u00a0sound like Jim was writing an extended love letter.\u00a0 Just when I wondered where he would go next, the bouncy Hill Country blues flavor (ala Cedric Burnside and the North Mississippi Allstars) kicked in with <\/span>I want to Be Your Man.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>A slight change in direction put a jangly guitar arrangement in my head reminiscent of Tom Petty (both his solo work and his reformed Mudcrutch era) on the track <\/span>Down My Road.\u00a0 Old 97<\/span><\/i> came on with the kind of infectious beat that I love.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t help but desk drumming along with the track\u2019s uptempo gait.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Simple Man<\/span><\/i> is a track that I liked even without drums (yes, drummers always want to hear songs with drums or else they add their own as noted with <\/span>Old 97)<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 Here the organ arrangement and skilled playing (which is great all across the album) holds up the guitar and vocals without the need for a drum track.\u00a0 <\/span>Just Deserts <\/span><\/i>winds up with <\/span>Should I Try<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 It is a great closer and the guitar and voice structure screamed \u2018Roger McGuinn\u2019 to me right off the bat.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0All in all it is a well constructed album and I am sure the more I listen to it, the more pleasant surprises I will find in the mix.\u00a0 Congrats to Jim on an \u2018A+\u2019 effort.\u00a0 Thank you. Gary, for sending along <\/span>Just Deserts.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Top Piece Video:\u00a0 Jim Eannelli and Lil’ Rev with WE COULD RIDE – you can see they have a lot of fun together!<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Our good friend Gary Tanin at Daystorm Music in Milwaukee recently sent along Jim Eannelli\u2019s first solo album Just Deserts which is set to be released in both digital and physical formats on September 27, 2024. \u00a0 Yours truly was visiting Eugene, Oregon to catch John Forgety\u2019s 56th Anniversary Celebration concert.\u00a0 When the Just Deserts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,8,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bands-musicians","category-education","category-from-the-vaults","category-new-music","category-woas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3275\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}