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James Kinds: Love You From The Top
by Nic Jones
Guitarist/vocalist James Kinds was hailed as a promising young bluesman back in 1977, but since then success that might have promised has eluded him. Indeed, it's not unfair to say that he hasn't even managed to maintain a profile of the likes of Billy Branch and Lurrie Bell, with whom he toured Germany back in the late 1970s, which makes the title of this disc, Love You From The Top, a matter of righting a wrong, especially as it's his ...
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Journeyman blues guitarist and singer James Kinds has played all over the upper Midwest USA, cutting a few sides for small labels over the years. Getting a chance to record for the venerable Chicago label Delmark, he makes the best of it by producing a fine album filled with strong singing and excellent musicianship. Kinds has a fleet fingered guitar style that is exciting to listen to along with a deep and passionate voice steeped in gospel and soul. He ...
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