1. Texas Strut
2. OK Buster
3. Most Dogs
4. Chickenwire
5. Fire Fly
6. Guitar Man
7. Metro Line Mambo
8. Chinatown
9. Hot Chili
10. She Used To Be My Baby
11. Serves Me Right to Suffer
12. Mongolian Twist
13. 10,000 Footprints (feat. Calvin Owens and His Houston Horns)
Total time: 1:01:44
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Chickenwire
Paul Filipowicz
Big Jake
Remember the old-style technique of kicking off a blues show with a short-but-sweet instrumental? Filipowicz opens his new live CD that way, then barrels into another, full-length instrumental. It’s his way of saying, “I’m old-school and so proud of it that I’m going to go one better.”
The Wisconsin-based guitarist excels at electric blues, whether it’s Chicago-, Texas- or West Coast-style. He’s got just enough flash, plenty of style and loads of substance. His deep, gruff vocals are thoroughly serviceable, and the group’s trio configuration would do SRV and Double Trouble proud.
After coming out shooting with the upbeat double-instro opener, Flip downshifts for the midtempo “Most Dogs,” then puts it in overdrive for the boogie-shuffling title cut. Things drop to a slow burn for “Fire Fly” but soon pick up again with another pair of instrumentals: “Metroline Mambo” (complete with train-horn guitar) and “Chinatown.”
“Hot Chili” is one of those beloved “food as metaphor for sex” tunes – a tough act to follow, so why not a couple of “love gone wrong” songs like “She Used to Be My Baby” and “Serves Me Right to Suffer”? For the penultimate, it’s a final instrumental, “Mongolian Twist,” before going out in a brassy blaze of glory with a guest appearance by Calvin Owens and His Houston Horns on “10,000 Footprints.”
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