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Digital 16 page CD Booklet. pdf file
Produced 2008 by John Lee Sanders
& The World Blue Band www.worldblueband.com
Executive Producers: Frank Folgmann and Gottfried Angerer
Production Notes: Basic tracks recorded by
Andreas Luger at: NiceView Studios Linz/Austria
Additional recordings at: “Attic Studios” Linz/Austria,
“RV-Studios” San Francisco/USA, “
Tor 2” Aachen/Germany
Mixed and mastered by Christian Bachner, Lambach/Austria
John Lee Sanders, Piano, Tenor Sax, Lead & Background Vocals
Frank Folgmann, Guitar
Gottfried Angerer, Bass
Raphael Wressnig, Hammond Organ
Jeff Boudreaux, Drums
Butch Coulter, Harmonica
Garth Webber, Guitar on "Bucket Full of Blues"
John Lee Sanders photos by Cale Guy
Cover Design by Knut Schötteldreier Designbüro,
Cologne, Germany - www.schoettdesign.de
Contact: WORLDBLUE OFFICE
c/o Frank Folgmann
Linke Brückenstr. 41
A-4040 Linz/Urfahr
Phone: +43 732 899944
Mobile: +43 699 11351126
office@frankfolgmann.com
www.worldblueband.com
PAO RECORDS
Paul Zauner
Froschau 4
A-4775 Diersbach
Phone: +43-7719-20061
Fax: +43-7719-20061-12
Mobile:+43-676-9046822
pz@pao.at www.pao.at
Produced 2008 by John Lee Sanders
& The World Blue Band www.worldblueband.com
Executive Producers: Frank Folgmann and Gottfried Angerer
Production Notes: Basic tracks recorded by
Andreas Luger at: NiceView Studios Linz/Austria
Additional recordings at: “Attic Studios” Linz/Austria,
“RV-Studios” San Francisco/USA, “
Tor 2” Aachen/Germany
Mixed and mastered by Christian Bachner, Lambach/Austria
John Lee Sanders, Piano, Tenor Sax, Lead & Background Vocals
Frank Folgmann, Guitar
Gottfried Angerer, Bass
Raphael Wressnig, Hammond Organ
Jeff Boudreaux, Drums
Butch Coulter, Harmonica
Garth Webber, Guitar on "Bucket Full of Blues"
John Lee Sanders photos by Cale Guy
Cover Design by Knut Schötteldreier Designbüro,
Cologne, Germany - www.schoettdesign.de
Contact: WORLDBLUE OFFICE
c/o Frank Folgmann
Linke Brückenstr. 41
A-4040 Linz/Urfahr
Phone: +43 732 899944
Mobile: +43 699 11351126
office@frankfolgmann.com
www.worldblueband.com
PAO RECORDS
Paul Zauner
Froschau 4
A-4775 Diersbach
Phone: +43-7719-20061
Fax: +43-7719-20061-12
Mobile:+43-676-9046822
pz@pao.at www.pao.at
Liner Notes by David Ritz
and had the top of my head blown off by a bluesman with firepower to burn.
The kid’s name was John Lee Sanders, and now the kid’s a man, and the man, steeped in the towering
tradition of deep-fried funk, is offering up his Bucket Full of Blues.
The bucket is overflowing with creative gifts
The bluesman has reached full maturity, and that promise of youth, heard so long ago, has been realized.
I’m grateful for this chance to celebrate John’s most recent achievement and offer my testimony.
Here’s what I feel about John Lee Sanders:
He’s a truth-teller, an artist who can’t help but give it to you straight.
Here’s what I love about John Lee Sanders:
His voice. Raw. Real. Sweet. Tart. An instrument of tremendous emotional and spiritual range.
His writing. His hooks. His stories. His sense, as he puts it, of “The World As I Know It.”
His deep Louisiana roots. His powerful connection to the fertile soil.
His grit, his grooves.
His honesty.
His haunting cry, his courageous assault on anything false.
“I’ve never claimed to be something I’m not,” he writes in “Handful. “I’ve got my flaws, but my heart is good.”
His music, his singing, his aesthetic vision are more than good; they’re flat-out great.
At this troubling moment in the history of the Music Nation, John Lee Sanders stands tall. He’s major. In his
own words, he’s hitched a ride from Memphis, dealing with the ghosts of Highway 61, arriving in New Orleans
in order to comfort us with the good news: that true music is truer than ever. His songs, full-bodied and
blood-washed, are rooted in reality. He reminds us that blues are concerned with neither nostalgia nor
self-pity. John Lee Sanders’ blues are about nothing less a renewal of strength, a resurrection of the human
spirit, a projection of hard-earned hope and a declaration of extravagant love.
DAVID RITZ / WWW.RITZWRITES.COM
David Ritz is an American author, most of whose books are biographies of soul music
and R&B legends such as Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, and Marvin Gaye.
On four occasions, his co-authored autobiographies of musicians for books with Jerry Wexler,
The Neville Brothers, B.B. King and Etta James have been awarded the Ralph J. Gleason Award.
He is also a novelist (Blue Notes Under a Green Felt Hat, The Man Who Brought
the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn) and co-composed „Sexual Healing“
