℗ 2022 Ruf Records
| Released | May 20, 2022 |
| Duration | 46m 18s |
| Record Label | Ruf Records |
| Catalogue No. | RUF1296 |
| Genre | Blues (Louisiana Blues) |
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1.1
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Blues Keep Chasing Me
Kenny Neal |
4:22 | |||
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1.2
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Mount up on the Wings of the King (feat. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram)
Kenny Neal; Christone "Kingfish" Ingram |
3:19 | |||
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1.3
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I'll Play the Blues for You
Kenny Neal |
4:52 | |||
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1.4
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Two Timing (feat. Tito Jackson)
Kenny Neal; Tito Jackson |
4:10 | |||
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1.5
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Louise Ana (feat. Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters)
Kenny Neal; Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters |
4:50 | |||
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1.6
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It Don't Cost Nothing
Kenny Neal |
4:29 | |||
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1.7
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Bon Temps Rouler (feat. Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters)
Kenny Neal; Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters |
4:07 | |||
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1.8
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It's Been so Long
Kenny Neal |
3:00 | |||
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1.9
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Someone Somewhere
Kenny Neal |
5:50 | |||
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1.10
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I've Got to Tell Somebody
Kenny Neal |
3:18 | |||
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1.11
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New Orleans
Kenny Neal |
4:01 |
Down in Louisiana, they do things differently. The Southern state’s musical giants have always had their own distinct recipe for American roots: spiced with jazz, steeped in swamp-blues and cooked up a little differently by every artist who performs it.
As a second-generation child of the Bayou State, Kenny Neal has taken his own inimitable guitar, gale-force harp and roadworn voice all over the globe. But in 2022, the Grammy-nominated blues master’s latest album, Straight From The Heart, finds him drawn by the siren call of his hometown and musical ground zero, Baton Rouge.
“This is the first album I’ve ever recorded on my own turf, and it truly came straight from the heart,” says Neal, who both led and produced a crack team of local musicians at his own Brookstown Recording Studios. “All the tributaries of the blues converge here, flowing into one rich tradition.”
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Ruf Records Studio Masters
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.31 -0.31 to -0.30 | -11.22 -12.63 to -9.52 | -8.93 -10.20 to -7.30 | 6 5 to 8 | |
| 1 | Blues Keep Chasing Me | -0.31 | -10.56 | -8.2 | 6 |
| 2 | Mount up on the Wings of the King (feat. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram) | -0.31 | -9.83 | -7.6 | 5 |
| 3 | I'll Play the Blues for You | -0.31 | -12.63 | -10.2 | 7 |
| 4 | Two Timing (feat. Tito Jackson) | -0.31 | -11.99 | -9.9 | 7 |
| 5 | Louise Ana (feat. Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters) | -0.31 | -10.29 | -7.9 | 5 |
| 6 | It Don't Cost Nothing | -0.31 | -12.35 | -9.9 | 7 |
| 7 | Bon Temps Rouler (feat. Rockin' Dopsie, Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters) | -0.31 | -9.52 | -7.3 | 5 |
| 8 | It's Been so Long | -0.31 | -11.78 | -9.3 | 7 |
| 9 | Someone Somewhere | -0.31 | -12.05 | -9.6 | 7 |
| 10 | I've Got to Tell Somebody | -0.31 | -10.21 | -8.1 | 5 |
| 11 | New Orleans | -0.30 | -12.22 | -10.2 | 8 |