Sean Chambers

Live From Daryl’s House

Quarto Valley Records

Florida born Sean Chambers learned by fronting a Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute band. His debut album “Strong Temptation” was released in 1998. While in Memphis in support of that album, Chambers was asked to sit in with Hubert Sumlin, the former guitarist for Howlin’ Wolf. As a result Chambers spent the next four years touring with Sumlin as his musical director. During Chambers’ tenure with Sumlin, Britain’s Guitarist Magazine named Chambers as “One of the Top 50 Blues Guitarists of the Last Century”. In 2009 Chambers released the critically-acclaimed, “Ten Til Midnight”, and followed with 2011’s “Live from the Long Island Warehouse”. In October 2013, Chambers’ released “The Rock House Sessions”; “Trouble & Whiskey” followed in 2017; “Welcome To My Blues” in 2018; and “That’s What I’m Talkin About” in 2021. “Live From Daryl’s House Club” is his ninth album overall. All of the songs were written by Chambers’ unless mentioned otherwise.

“Cobra” is a fiery instrumental written by the late Kim Simmonds, the guitarist for Savoy Brown. Chambers’ and the members of Savoy Brown became friends after playing a festival together in 2019. After the passing of Simmonds Chambers’ teamed up the Savoy Brown rhythm section of Pat DeSalvo, bass; and Garnet Grimm, drums. They follow with “I Need Your Loving” with the lyric “I need your lovin’, I need your kisses too…early in the morning I let you get away, before I met you baby, I was sad and blue”. “Red Hot Mama” features a ‘call and response’ with some great slide from vocalist Chambers, “Red hot mama makes me blow my fuse”.

“Louise” is from Chester A. Burnett a.k.a. Howlin’ Wolf, “Louise, Louise the sweetest girl I know…Louise, Louise won’t you come back home…someone been fishin’ in your pond, Louise, Louise, since you’ve been gone”. The title track from “Ten Til Midnight”, “I got a pocket full of money and I’m waitin’ on your call…I’m tired of waitin’ it’s ten til’ midnight”. “Street Corner Talking” written by Simmonds was a hit single in 1971, “I came to the city, left my happy home, it’s the same, what a shame everywhere you go, street corner talkin’ what am I gonna do, if you can’t find a job County gonna take care of you”.

“Bullfrog Blues” is a traditional song that traces back to William Harris, this version was arranged by Rory Gallagher, “did you ever, did you ever wake up with a Bullfrog on your mind” with a great drum solo from Grimm. “Sweeter Than A Honey Bee”, includes the lyric “when I feel blue, your sweeter than a honey bee, you lift me up, I’m never gonna let you down”, this time with bassist DeSalvo laying down a great foundation.

“Trouble & Whiskey” was co-written by Chambers with Jimmy Bennett “Trouble & Whiskey baby, is all I used to know…but ever since you came along all of that went out the door”. “You’re Gonna Miss Me” was written by Eddie Jones, “your gonna miss me when I’m dead and gone”. “Louisiana Blues” was written by Muddy Waters, “Goin’ to Louisiana…know my troubles just begun…I’m going to New Orleans where the women are under my command… if the river was whiskey and I was a diving duck, I’d dive to the bottom and never come up”. On the closer, “Brown Sugar” written by Billy F. Gibbons, Chambers chants “my friends all told me, there is something gonna change your life”.

Sean Chambers “Live From Daryl’s House Club” featuring the Savoy Brown Rhythm Section” is a career retrospective which also serves as a “best of” collection. The album is dedicated to the loving memories of Kim Simmonds, Gary Keith, Jerry Dycke & Ben Elliott. This is what you might hear, the next time you see Chambers’ live. It don’t get any better.

Richard Ludmerer
Contributing Editor/Making A Scene

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