Track List:
1.What am I doin' in a place like this (Delaney Bramlett/ Doug Gilmore)
2. Doin' It Right (CoCo Carmel/Delaney Bramlett)
3. Love Don't Deserve it (to be treated that way) (CoCo Carmel/D.Bramlett)
4. Mother (CoCo Carmel/Delaney Bramlett)
5. I Don't know Why (Eric Clapton/Delaney Bramlett)
6. Sound of The City (Joe Hicks/Delaney Bramlett)
7. Why would I do that ? (CoCo Carmel/Delaney Bramlett)
8. Go to Him (CoCo Carmel)
9. Let me put it another way (Delaney Bramlett/CoCo Carmel)
10. Imaginary Love (CoCo Carmel)
11. Sweet Miss You (CoCo Carmel)
12. Only A Game (Delaney Bramlett/Michele Bramlett)
12. Rest In Peace (CoCo Carmel Whitlock)
HOME: JULY 23, 2010: MUSIC Austin Chronicle
Texas Platters
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
First Fruit : ****1/2
First Fruit, a single-disc approximation of Rhino Records' new 4-CD expansion for Delaney & Bonnie's landmark On Tour With Eric Clapton.
Produced by Carmel's ex-husband Delaney Bramlett beginning in 1988 and unearthed by her upon his death 20 years later First Fruit stars five co-writes by the two, including sugar-pooling piano hook "Love Don't Deserve It," plus Clapton/Bramlett guitar-gospel "I Don't Know Why" and closing hymnal "Rest in Peace (Tribute to Delaney)," written by one Coco Carmel Whitlock.
The late celebrant's in endearing Joe Cocker-meets-Jimmy LaFave form on "Sound of the City," but it's Carmel's tart, honeysuckle vocals that fuse First Fruit's expert Stax-like roots stew. Her originals arc from gospel rocker "Go to Him" to the sanctified "Imaginary Love" and its spot-on rejoinder "Sweet Miss You," a luxuriating ballad with an Allmans-kissed guitar soloette.
First Fruit bites all right wearing blood-red lipstick. A pair of similarly vintage chips off the classic rock block round out Carmel and Whitlock's Domino label freshman quartet, wood-grain siblings My Time and Vintage....read the entire review here:
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