Willie Mae

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#		Title	Length
1		Nothing I Can Do	3:28	Play
2		Long Way 'Round	3:51	Play
3		One Way Ticket	5:18	Play
4		What's It Gonna Be?	6:27	Play
5		Train Kept A-Rollin'	5:01	Play
6		Early In The Morning	3:54	Play
7		Willie Mae	5:29	Play
8		Waiting At The Station	4:00	Play
9		Jump Back	4:16	Play
10		Worried Life Blues	3:28	Play
11		Down The Road Apiece	4:37	Play
12		Skulkin'	6:17	Play

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"One of the most exciting of the roots blues bands to ever come from Ann Arbor/Metro Detroit, pianist/guitarist/vocalist Hill has everything going his way. He has a clear, distinctive, soulful voice, his guitar or piano playing tasty and literate...Highly recommended for lovers of traditional horn fired, piano saturated blues, with no reservation." ... - All Music Guide

Al Hill has a natural feel for urban blues, roots-rock, and soul music. On his debut CD "Willie Mae", Hill blends New Orleans rhythm, shuffling blues, and some expert boogie woogie into his own funky bag. Featuring his band the Love Butlers, "Willie Mae" offers eight rootsy originals as well as four reworked classics.

When he's not working with his own band, Al is keyboardist and music director for international soul diva Bettye Lavette. Bettye and Al's band have toured the U.S. from coast to coast, and made numerous trips to Europe. He also collaborates with his wife Whit Hill in the alt-folk-country band The Postcards, recently releasing their debut "We Are Here". In past years he has toured extensively with Detroit blues artists Johnnie Bassett and Alberta Adams, made festival dates with Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Johnny Johnson, had the pleasure of performing onstage with Luther Allison, Sir Mack Rice, Lazy Lester, and Sleepy LaBeef.

In clubs and concerts, in twenty six states and eight countries audiences have been digging Al's style. People say...

"Few cart along the sort of rich realness that saturates this longtime live fave. What separates pianist-guitarist Hill from the pack of pretenders is that Hill's swampy, swarthy boogie isn't just reverent interpretation--between the tangy, unaffected vocals, thick horns and fatty bottom end, the stuff is thick enough to taste. This 12-track debut disc, featuring seven stellar Hill compositions, is an engaging mesh of Memphis, New Orleans and Midwest--and one of the most sublime platters to emerge from these parts in recent memory." - Detroit Free Press

"..unaffected vocals and rolling keyboard...swings relentlessly..." - Living Blues Magazine

"Hill's hard-driving piano style crackles with the rolling shuffles, Cuban-inflected polyrhythms and syncopated, rhumba-boogie grooves of Crescent City masters Dr. John and Professor Longhair. The horn charts are tough but tasteful, and Hill's pliant, soulful vocals give a nod to Memphis masters Redding and Pickett." - Detroit News

"Al Hill's unique and powerful style is a superb blend of roots rock, thumpin' rhythm and blues, and heartfelt soul. His piano and vocal performances are outstanding." - Big City Blues Magazine

"The 43-year-old bluesman unleashes the soul of his blues through smoky vocals and shuffling boogie piano, accented by understated guitar work and songwriting that's nothing short of heartland poetry." - Grand Rapids Press