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| | King of the Highway | | | Music Artist : | | Norton Buffalo & the Knockouts | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Blind Pig | | Release Date : | | 2000-09-26 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 4 to 6 weeks | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Is It Love?
2. Let Me Be Your Man
3. King of the Highway
4. Odds Are Against Us
5. Hoodoo Roux
6. Sweet Little Pumpkin
7. Shuffalo
8. She's Drivin' Me Crazy
9. Line of Fire
10. I'm Tore Down
11. Harmonica Mambo
12. I Know I'm Fallin'
13. Monkey and the Man
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Terrific harmonica and modern blues . . .
Submitted on: 2005-10-30 |
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| Norton Buffalo continues to amaze with his harmonica playing and this modern, west-coast take on the blues. If you are not familiar with his talent, buy his late 70's albums (available on cd) along with this one and just listen to his harmonica flow and flame...truly one of a kind. |
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 Norton Buffalo Rides Again
Submitted on: 2002-01-29 |
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| Norton Buffalo is one of those musicians that just about everybody has heard and that just about nobody has heard of. He's been the harmonica player for Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler, Steve Miller and a host of others. Contented to stay in the shadows while others stand in the spotlight, Buffalo has chosen to step into the limelight again. Buffalo has chosen to do an album of rockin' Blues and surrounds himself with some top-notch players as well as guest musicians Steve Miller, Elvin Bishop and Merl Saunders. Every song on the CD is solid, featuring some amazing harp playing by Buffalo. It is almost shameful that this album hasn't gotten more airplay, while lesser lights get played to death. If you're an aspiring harmonica player, it would be in your best interest to get a copy of this CD to here what the instrument can sound like in the hands of a master. |
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Long over due!
Submitted on: 2000-11-12 |
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| Norton Buffalo is and has been one of the most outstanding Harp players of our time. It's about time he came out with his own solo CD! I have been long time fan of Norton since his Steve Miller days. not that he cant hold his own just about any kind of music he can! He realy shows how good he is on the Harp when it comes to Blues! This is long time wait for me and It's now here I hope to see much more from him he is just to good to keep down! Keep on Harping the Blues Norten!!! |
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american buffalo in great form
Submitted on: 2000-11-05 |
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| i was a bit concerned when the liner notes told me i wasn't going to hear any "dirty" amplified harp, exactly what i love, but you don't miss that with norton blowing. his playing is so fully nuanced and textured that a mic might even have distorted some of those wonderful tones. and while you won't find any lowdown swamp boogie here, or delta grinders, or led zep rockers, you will find plenty of smoky lounge crawlers and freeway accelerators with smoldering guitar if that's your taste. in fact norton is a master of styles and playing modes, sounding now like the harmonicats, then like larry adler, and all with a rocking, bluesy feel. he sings almost as well as he plays, too. anybody catch his playing in the movie "the dog pound shuffle" some years back, where norton does the harp work for a canadian drifter played by david soul? beautiful stuff. |
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King of the Harmonica
Submitted on: 2000-10-07 |
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| Norton Buffalo's first solo project since the late 70's "King of the Highway" focuses on his blues side. But this is not a derivative Chicago blues harp album or pre-war country blues (not that there's anything wrong with those genres), this is Norton's unique brand of blues: down-home but modern, soulfull, melodic, swinging and fun. There's lots of virtuoso harmonica playing (all unamplified) and good songs, originals all but one. Hope we don't have to wait another 20 years for the next Norton Buffalo album. |
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