Kenny Neal – Straight From The Heart LP

Kenny Neal – Straight From The Heart

Down in Louisiana, they do things differently. The Southern state’s musical giants have always had their own distinct recipe for American roots: spiced with jazz, steeped in swamp-blues and cooked up a little differently by every artist who performs it. As a second-generation child of the Bayou State, Kenny Neal has taken his own inimitable guitar, gale-force harp and roadworn voice all over the globe. But in 2022, the Grammy-nominated blues master’s latest album, Straight From The Heart, finds him drawn by the siren call of his hometown and musical ground zero, Baton Rouge. You’ll hear all of Neal’s travels in Straight From The Heart, but this latest album brings it all back home in every sense. Lining up in the studio alongside his Baton Rouge compadrés, the respect that Neal commands on the scene also drew some special guests, including hot-tip blues sensation Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram (who co-writes and plays stinger guitar on Mount Up On The Wings Of The King), pop royalty Tito Jackson (on Two Timing) and two songs with Rockin’ Dopsie Junior & The Zydeco Twisters.

Tracklist:
1. Blues Keep Chasing Me
2. Mount Up On the Wings of the King Feat. Christone "Kingfish"
3. I'll Play the Blues For You
4. Two Timing Feat. Tito Jackson
5. Louise Ana Feat. Rockin' Dopsie Jr and the Zydeco Twister
6. It Don't Cost Nothing
7. Bon Temps Rouler Feat. Rockin' Dopsie Jr and the Zydeco Twis
8. It's Been So Long
9. Someone Somewhere
10. I Got To Tell Somebody

Label: Ruf Records 
Released: 2022