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| Personnel JJ Grey vocals acoustic guitar acoustic 12-string guitar electric guitar harmonica tambourine background vocals Andrew Trube acoustic guitar electric guitar lap steel guitar Anthony Farrell electric guitar piano Clavinet organ Art Edmaiston tenor saxophone baritone saxophone Dennis Marion trumpet Anthony Cole organ drums Stan Lynch shaker Audio Mixer Dan Prothero Recording information Retrophonics Studio Saint Augustine FL The Egg Room Editor Dan Prothero Photographer Dan Prothero Arranger JJ Grey Fans of JJ Grey and his ever evolving band Mofro will be delighted that the Florida swamp sage lives by the dictum If it ain t broke don t fix it on This River If anything Grey has doubled down on the grittier funkier aspects of 2010 s Georgia Warhorse and brought the studio closer to the stage to boot The sound on this record is live crackling Half of its ten tracks are crunchy uptempo numbers that flex their funky muscles The rest is balanced between well-articulated soul tunes a rock number and back-porch ballads Set opener Your Lady She s Shady is a crusty greasy funk attack while Somebody Else walks some weird line between part of the melody from the Classics IV s Spooky courtesy of the Atlanta Rhythm Section s cover vocal phrasing by Wilson Pickett and guitars bass and horns coming straight from Stax Speaking of which the horn chart and melody in Tame a Wild One come right out of the late 60s - and in the grain of Grey s whiskey voice it feels right 99 Shades of Crazy is dirty-ass blues-rock inspired by Delaney Bramlett and Sticky Fingers-era Rolling Stones Choppy syncopated funk makes its return in Florabama and one can feel Muscle Shoals dripping from the horns While this is definitely retro Grey s fans expect it they want it His songs and his presence as a frontman keep things choogling But there is a surprise in every track - the jazz-funk trumpet and Rho |
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