Details of
Come Together
by Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors
Liner Notes:
Producer: Adam Gussow with Bryan W. Ward. Executive producers Roderick Renard Patterson and Adam Gussow
Engineer: Bryan W. Ward
Recorder At: Steve Thompson's big old house in Water Valley, Mississippi
Mastered By: Jeffrey Reed, Taproot Audio Design
About the Album
Featuring Rod Patterson up front, Gussow on amplified harmonica and drums, and Alan Gross on guitar, Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors offer a powerful mix of down-home blues, old-school soul, and uptown funk. Their debut album, Come Together, released in July 2020, features Satan and Adam favorites, including "I Want You," "Sanctified Blues," and "Seventh Avenue," stirred together with "What'd I Say," "I Feel Good," "Little Red Rooster," plus the catchy jam-band single, “Come Together,” a Gussow-Patterson original that speaks prophetically to the COVID-19 crisis and the virus of racism.
"Freedom for my People," an anthem of Magee's that preaches hope and cries out against injustice, is one of the album's high points, a showcase for Sir Rod's soulful vocals. "So Mean," another Patterson original, is an aching slow blues--just the singer and his keyboard, crying out to the woman he loves, with Gussow seconding the feeling on acoustic harp.
