Jake Shimabukuro & Mick Fleetwood Blues Experience
Jake Shimabukuro & Mick Fleetwood
Blues Experience
JS Records
Since gaining prominence in the early 2000’s, ukulele marvel Jake Shimabukuro has mesmerized audiences with his innovative style, with over a dozen solo albums. For this brand-new project, “Blues Experience” he joins forces with drumming legend and founding member of Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood. This exhilarating duo interpret some of the greatest blues songs. Shimabukuro has played the world’s great stages from The Hollywood Bowl to Lincoln Center and stood beside the world’s greatest musicians including Yo-Yo Ma, Bela Fleck, Jimmy Buffet, Willie Nelson, Warren Haynes, and others. In 2021 he was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a Member for the National Council on the Arts. He was the 2023 International Ukulele Player of the Year and a member of Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer band.
Critics proclaim that “With Shimabukuro, the ukulele has found it’s Eric Clapton”, and “What Bela Fleck is to the banjo, Jake Shimabukuro is to the ukulele”. The album opens with “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers”, written by Jeff Beck and Stevie Wonder, and recorded by Syreeta Wright in 1974, on Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta, where our fabulous duo is joined by slide guitarist Sonny Landreth, and regular keyboardist Michael Grande.
“Rollin’ and Tumblin'” was written and first recorded by Muddy Waters in 1950 on Parkway Records; the song was also recorded by Canned Heat in 1968, and by Fleetwood Mac in 2007; performed by Shimabukuro, it is psychedelic jazz rock. “Need Your Love So Bad”, written and first recorded by Little Willie John in 1958, was also recorded by Fleetwood Mac in ’68; joining them is bassist Jackson Waldhoff and keyboardist Mark Johnstone.
“Whiter Shade of Pale” is the 1967 mega-hit for Procol Harum written by pianist Gary Brooker and lyricist Keith Stuart Brian Reid. “I Wanna Get Funky” is from songwriter Carl William Smith, and recorded by Albert King in 1974. “Still Got The Blues” was written and recorded by guitarist Garry Moore in 1990. On “Rockin’ In The Free World” another Shimabukuro psychedelic rock tune written and first recorded by Neil Young in 1989; again featuring Mark Johnstone playing keys.
On the emotional closer, Shimabukuro & Company, cover Fleetwood Mac’s “Songbird”, recorded after Christine McVie’s passing; Shimabukuro states “I felt so fortunate to be able to experience that with Mick. It was very powerful to see the effect it had on him”.
Ukulele player Shimabukuro, and drummer Mick Fleetwood have given us a fabulous “Blues Experience”, an album for the ages. A special thank you goes to the entire ensemble.
Richard Ludmerer
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