TRACKS
- Waiting For My Luck To Change
- What You Need
- What’s In It For Me?
- Too Many Cooks
- I Shouldn’t But I Do
- Hard Times (Have Surely Come)
- I'll Take The Easy Way
- Give It To Me Straight
- Woman Don't Lie
- It's Easy When You Know How
- I'm Givin' In
- Hooked
- Who’s Minding The Store?
- Jimmy's Boogie
All songs written by Christoph Jimmy Reiter / GEMA, except
#8, #11 and #12 (Christoph Jimmy Reiter and Doug Jay / GEMA),
#4 (Dixon), #5 (Caronna/Rebennack), #6 (Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson), #9 (Luther "Snakeboy" Johnson), #10 (Green), #13 (Toussaint)
© + ℗ 2020 Jimmy Reiter
Release Date: January 15, 2021
Available on CD and all major download and streaming platforms.
LINE-UP
Jimmy Reiter – guitar, vocals
Nico Dreier – keyboards
Jasper Mortier – bass, backing vocals
Björn Puls – drums, backing vocals
with
Dmitry Suslov – tenor sax
Jürgen Wieching – baritone sax
on tracks 4-8, 10-13
Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13
Recorded live at Blue Note (Osnabrück, Germany) by Marcus Praed
Tracks 2, 3, 9, 14
Recorded live at Reigen (Vienna, Austria) by Andreas Neubauer (Funkytown Productions), Gesamtleitung / Ö1-Jazzredaktion: Andreas Felber (ORF)
Produced by Jimmy Reiter and Marcus Praed
Mixed and mastered by Marcus Praed at Mühle der Freundschaft, Bad Iburg, Germany
Art direction and design by Floris Tilanus, www.floristilanus.nl
Cover photos by Yann Brisson
Distributed by membran Entertainment Group
Reviews
bluesnews CD-Tipp: ★★★★★½ (5½ of 6 stars)
"A tight band with a great feel for the groove.”
— 05/2020, bluesnews
What you can rightly expect from a live show of this caliber, Jimmy Reiter manages to combine with verve and authenticity to nothing less than a damn classic. An indispensable album.
— 01/2021, Paris-Move, Blues Magazine, Patrick Dallongeville
A fantastic combination of Blues with horns featuring Jimmy's thrilling guitar playing in the atmosphere of a live concert, which we all miss so much these days.
— 01/2021, Munich Talk, Mario Bollinger
"Live" shows Jimmy Reiter and his fantastic band at their best.
"Live" shows the enormous spectrum Jimmy Reiter's blues.
"Live" is a convincing album in every respect.
— 01/2021, Rocktimes, Joachim Brookes
Another fantastic German blues album [...] Traditional electric blues mixed with a funky and soulful touch. Highly recommended!
— 01/2021, Blues Magazine (NL), André Wittebroek
Jimmy Reiter's ‘Live’ is a very convincing and extremely varied live album, which shows Jimmy’s excellent guitar qualities and those of a well-oiled band.
— 01/2021, Rootstime.be (B), Eric Schuurmans
'Live' by Jimmy Reiter showcases a band that is one of the absolute best in Europe in all aspects.
— 02/2021, Bluestown Music, Tom Wouters
I would definitely pay good money to see these guys live! Recommended!
— 02/2021, Blues in Britain (UK), John Mitchell
Reiter's twelve minutes of "Give It To Me Straight" are worth every second. Fantastic record, fantastic band!
— 02/2021, Jazz thing, Ralf Deckert