Engineer – Dave Reed, Jamie Arentzen. Guitar – Ronnie Earl. Mastered By – Jonathan Wyner. Photography By – Jean Hangarter. Piano, Organ – Bruce Katz. Producer, Recorded By – Neal Ward. Tenor Saxophone, Guest – David "Fathead" Newman (tracks: 2-3, 6-9). Grateful Heart - Blues & Ballads ‎(Cass, Album). Bullseye Blues, Rounder Records.

Album · 1996 · 12 Songs. Per Hanson, Rod Carey & Bruce Katz). 3. Drown in My Own Tears (feat. 5. Skyman (For Duane). 6. Welcome Home (Dedicated to All the Vietnam Veterans). 9. Little Flower (feat. Per Hanson, Rod Carey & Bruce.

Per Hanson, Rod Carey & Bruce Katz), including "Alabama (feat. Per Hanson, Rod Carey & Bruce Katz)", "Ice Cream Man (feat. Per Hanson, Rod Carey & Bruce Katz)", "Drown in My Own Tears (feat. Per Hanson, Rod Carey & Bruce Katz)" and many more.

On this outing, Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads, he surrounds himself with an excellent quartet of players with David "Fathead" Newman on tenor sax, Per Hanson on drums, Rod Carey on bass, and Bruce Katz on keyboards, and the results are simply sublime. Instead of a bunch of Chicago retreads, we are treated to a heady mixture of blues, jazz, soul, swing, you name it, all of it infused with taste, tone and economy. Perhaps the smartest move a non-singing guitar-playing virtuoso like Ronnie Earl could make was ditching the lame singers who permeate most of his earlier efforts and go with an all-instrumental program. On this outing, Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads, he surrounds himself with an excellent quartet of players with David "Fathead" Newman on tenor sax, Per Hanson on drums, Rod Carey on bass, and Bruce Katz on keyboards, and the results are simply sublime.

Perhaps the smartest move a non-singing guitar-playing virtuoso like Ronnie Earl could make was ditching the lame singers who permeate most of his earlier efforts and go with an all-instrumental program. Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters. Drown in My Own Tears.

Roomful of Blues, Ronnie Earl & The Broadcasters. The lineup for the Broadcasters for that album was Bruce Katz (keyboards), Per Hanson (drums) and "Rocket" Rod Carey (bass). The next album The Colour of Love, featured Marc Quinones (percussion) and Gregg Allman (keyboards). The latter association led to Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters' opening for the Allman Brothers Band at Great Woods, and to Warren Haynes (guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band) sitting in with Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters at Johnnie D's in Somerville. Later, Katz joined the Gregg Allman Band.

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Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters easily blend Chicago-styled blues with swinging R&B, jump-blues, and red-hot jazz licks influenced more by John Coltrane than by Muddy Waters, creating a free-wheeling instant party atmosphere. With the energy and experience brought to the task, Now My Soul is one of the most lively and distinctive blues albums that you’ll hear this or any other year. The instrumental pieces hit the bulls-eye dead on; Earl’s unique guitar phrasing and eloquent fretwork complimented by a slightly funky rhythmic undercurrent and keyboardist Limina’s subtle flourishes