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Shake
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Stories from Sammy Louis |
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Post aus Fort Worth, Texas.
Sam Shake Anderson begann seine Karriere als Bassist, Gitarrist,
Sänger und Songwriter. Er tourte und arbeitete mit Aalyah,
Earth, Wind and Fire, Aretha Franklin, den Spice Girls, Curtis
Mayfield, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder und viele Anderen. Auch seine
Bandmitglieder teilten mit Künstler vieler Stilrichtungen
wie Shania Twain, David Foster, Branford Marsalis, Maceo Parker
die Bühne.
Shakes
Musik ist eine heiße Melange aus R&B und Southern Soul
dessen heißeste Phase von Anfang der 60er bis Mitte der
70er Jahre dauerte. Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, The Staple Singers,
Aretha Franklin und Isaac Hayes waren die wichtigsten Vertreter
des Genres.
Anderson singt Geschichten, die das Leben schreibt. "Über
das wahre Leben lernte ich am meisten, als mir meine Ärzte
eröffneten, dass ich nur noch wenige Monate zu Leben hätte.
Diese Lebenskrise zeigte mir was im Leben wirklich wichtig ist"
so der Songwriter. Nach überstandener Krankheit krempelte
er sein Leben um und schrieb die Songs zu "Stories from Sammy
Louis".
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Kraftvoll
und erdig erzählt Anderson Geschichten in verschiedenen Kapiteln.
"Chapter 1: We may never get outta here" startet mit
einem Vokalscat bevor die Band in federndem Rhytmus den Song vorantreibt.
"Set it off" ein ruhig dahintreibender Hammondsound,
ein feiner Schlagzeug- und Percussionrhytmus und darüber
Shake's fordernde, eindringliche Stimme, die vom fetten Backgroundchor
in Call und Response Manier intensiviert wird.
Mit rauer, gequälter Stimme rät er seiner Liebe, dass
sie gefälligst das Weite suchen solle. "You said you
love me and you promised to be true", sie verursacht lediglich
Tränen und Schmerzen in "Don't you come 'round here
no mo".
Mit fließenden Pianofiguren und geschmackvoll eingeworfenen
Hammondlicks reduziert Anderson mit "Chapter 4: Tumblin'
down" die Geschwindigkeit. "If you build your house
of mud and stone it may last forever, but without love inside,
that house ain't a home nothing will hold it together".
In
R&B Manier groovt "Sold me down the river" auf intensivem
breitem Klangteppich. Die 60er zitierend jedoch im Sound von Heute.
Karibisch inspiriert mit Slap-Bass und vertracktem Rhythmus präsentiert
sich "And it cuts me" im Funkysound. Gospelinspiriert
bezaubert "Only game in town". Auf tanzenden Pianoperlen
und sehnsuchtsvollem Cello fasziniert "When it comes to love".
Sam "Shake" Andersons Stil erinnert an seine musikalischen
Vorreiter wie Otis Redding und Wilson Pickett. Vom ersten Ton
an befindet er sich jedoch im Hier und Jetzt. Wer intensiv zuhört
wird belohnt mit einem Geheimtipp, der hoffentlich keiner bleiben
wird.
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In English:
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Fusing
southern soul and R&B with songs of meaning and hope, Shake
Anderson brings you Stories from Sammy Louis as the first project
of his new record label, TSM Music. The album, recorded at the world
class Saint Claire Studio in Lexington, Kentucky, is an uplifting
collection of lessons learned about life and how to live it.
Sam "Shake" Anderson, hailing from Louisville Ky, started
recording at 9 touring at the same age, a versatile bassist/guitarist
and singer/songwriter. Shake as his friends call him has recorded
or toured with with artists as varied as Bruce Hornsbe,Playa, Static
Major,Earth Wind and Fire,Aretha Franklin, The Indigo Girls,The
Spice Girls, Curtis Mayfield, Aliyah,Felix Cavalieri, Ray Charles
and Stevie Wonder to name a few. He spent 6 yrs as the musical director
for the World famous Impressions. A multi instrumentalist, he is
known as the musicians musician, he has also worked with a great
variety of Christian artist such as Crystal Lewis,Annointed,Bryan
Duncan,Israel Houghton and New Breed,Avalon,Doc Mckenzie and the
Hi Lites,The Highway QC's and on and on. As a songwriter he was
signed to Warner Bros/Chappel Hill music for 6 yrs and has produced
and recorded for many great labels and artists. Shake has also worked
on many movies and won several gold and platinum albums for his
work on Blue Streak,Dr Doolittle,Boys on the Side and Austin Powers.
He has played in some of the greatest concert halls and venues in
the world, like Carnegie Hall, The Apollo theatre, Symphony Music
Hall,Radio City Music hall,The Heinekin Music hall,The Ryman Auditorium,
The Buordone Theatre in Frankfurt Germany and all around the world.
Shake now makes his home in Ft Worth Tx, where he is Director and
Worship Leader at Heritage of Faith. He continues to record and
produce as well as write for different artists and has recently
finished his cd, (Stories from Sammy Louis). |
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whose real name is Sammy Louis Anderson, is an accomplished and
profilic musician, singer and songwriter who achieved great success
working with artists such as Aaliyah, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.
Even with all of his achievements—he learned the most about
life when an illness stopped him in his tracks. He was told he would
never perform again and had several months to live. Life as he had
known it was over. While spending more than nine months in the hospital
and being told he was dying he learned who he really was—not
Shake as the world called him—but Sammy Louis as his doctor's
referred to him. This crisis in his life taught him what was really
important. Shake overcame all the odds and rebuilt his life. These
songs—chapters—are stories about making mistakes, learning
lessons and rebirth. Shake says about Stories from Sammy Louis—“once
you've been to the edge the middle doesn't matter.” |
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Chapter
1 We may never get outta here *
Chapter 2 Set if off
Chapter 3. Don't you come 'round here no mo *
Chapter 4 Tumblin' down
Chapter 5 Sold me down the river *
Chapter 6 And it cuts me
Chapter 7 The only game in town
Chapter 8 Wasted away
Chapter 9 When it ocmes to love *
Chapter 10 That won't mean
Chapter 11 You
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