LIVING BLUES - Enrico Merlin Max Prandi

LIVING BLUES - THE ITALIAN RECORDINGS (CVLD360)

Enrico Merlin, acoustic and hollow-body guitars, banjo, bass, backing vocals

Max Prandi, lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, percussion

01. CROSS ROAD BLUES (Robert Johnson) 3:51
02. FOLSOM PRISON BLUES (Johnny Cash) 4:07
03. REQUIEM FOR BLIND WILLIE JOHNSON (Enrico Merlin) 3:19
04. GRINNIN’ IN YOUR FACE (Edward James “Son” House Jr.) 3:35
05. MELLOW DOWN EASY (Willie Dixon) 6:00
06. JESUS ON THE MAINLINE (Traditional) 3:58
07. SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD (Traditional) 5:04
08. BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM [Rally ‘Round the Flag] (George Frederick Root) 1:05
09. KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR (Bob Dylan) 4:49
10. OLD MAN (J. J. Cale) 3:36
11. I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR (Paul David Hewson,
David Howell Evans, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.) 4:33
12. CAT’S BLUES (Enrico Merlin) 2:45
13. LONG BLACK VEIL (Danny Dill e Marijohn Wilkin) 3:47

Total Time: 50:38

Tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 arranged by ENRICO MERLIN and MAX PRANDI
Tracks 3, 4, 7, 8, 12 arranged by ENRICO MERLIN

“Living Blues or “Playing the Blues?
Without a doubt, Max belongs to the first category, and for this reason playing and sharing time becomes an out of the ordinary experience. Despite having a large territory in common - the Land of the Blues - our musical goals appear apparently distant, however, each encounter generates a unique alchemy, which surprises us first. This record tells of life, of its joys and sorrows, of love and resignation, but never of defeat. The first side of the LP expresses the essence of the Blues, its roots and its evolution. The second is a journey through time and space, between the difficulties of life, hope and acceptance, although the solo that dissolves the tonality and rhythm in the first of the bonus tracks is the metaphor that “We still haven’t found what we’re looking for; and so we continue to seek.

Enrico Merlin
Enrico Merlin plays through Tony D’angelo amplifiers and Fattoria Mendoza stomp boxes.

Digital / Analog recording made strictly live-in-studio at Main Hall, Villa Masiero e Centanin, Arquà Petrarca, Italy, on May 3, 4, 2023. Analog Mix and mastering made at VL Studio, Naquera, Spain, on May 11, 12, 2023, using Rupert Neve Design Summing Mixing Console, Maselec MLA-2 / MEA-2 / MPL-2 and Studer A810.

Production: Marco Lincetto and Massimo Corvino Consulting
Executive producer: Marco Lincetto
Musical producer: Enrico Merlin
Balance, recording, mix and mastering engineer: Marco Lincetto
Photo: Marco Lincetto
Graphics and layout: L’Image