Blues Preacher is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in 1992 and released on the Japanese DIW

DIW Records

DIW Records is a Japanese record label. It is a subsidiary label of Disc Union and specializes in jazz and avant garde music. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn.-Discography:...

 label and in the US on Columbia/DIW

Columbia Records

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...

 awarded the album 1½ stars stating "Ulmer sticks to a harsh blues-rock groove, with many of the one-chord vamps sounding like they are leftovers from John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...

's repertoire. There are no harmolodics (and little jazz) to be heard on the CD, and this rather primitive music is to be recommended only to fans of Ulmer's shouting vocals.

Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer

1. "Cheering" - 6:45
2. "Alone to Wonder" - 6:17
3. "Let Me Take You Home" - 5:15
4. "Who Let the Cat Out of the Bag?" - 4:37
5. "Jazz Is the Teacher (Funk the Preacher)" - 6:45
6. "Justice for Us All" - 5:05
7. "Nobody But You" - 5:40
8. "Blues Allnight" - 6:30
9. "Get Up" - 7:35
10. "Angel" - 7:05
    • Recorded at at Sound On Sound, NYC in September through November, 1992

Personnel

• James Blood Ulmer - guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
• Mark E. Peterson - bass
  Bass guitar
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   (tracks 1-9)
• Ronald Drayton - guitar (tracks 1-9)
• Aubrey Dayle - drums
  Drum kit
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• William "Spaceman" Patterson
  Spaceman Patterson
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   - synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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  , drums, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
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   (track 10)
• Delmar Brown - keyboards (track 10)
• Irene Datcher - vocals (track 10)