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Chris Whitley and Jeff Lang, Dislocation Blues

By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

When rock troubadour Chris Whitley died of cancer in November 2005, he left behind two unreleased CDs, each recorded in just a few days. The gloriously loud Reiter In, a collaboration with Kenny Siegal and the so-called Bastard Club, was released in 2006 by Red Parlor (www.redparlor.com). And now comes Dislocation Blues, featuring Whitley and Australian slide wiz Jeff Lang. Whitley fans will find much to savor on the album, from a strutting “Stagger Lee” to an eerie reinvention of Whitley’s “Rocket House.” The title track, a primal one-chord blues with Whitley on National guitar and Lang on the banjo-like chumbush, evokes the Malian master Ali Farka Toure. And on Prince’s “Forever in My Life,” Whitley comes as close to the roots-rock vibe of his astonishing debut, Living with the Law, as anything else he recorded. The entire CD is a guitar feast, especially Lang’s state-of-the-art lap slide. As a songwriter and singer, Lang can’t match Whitley’s depth of poetry or soul, so his three originals pale by comparison. But that’s a minor weakness on a CD that is, overall, a gift to Whitley devotees—or to anyone interested in 21st-century blues. (Rounder, www.rounder.com)

This article also appears in Acoustic Guitar, September 2007

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