Track Listing

1. Player
2. Honey Bee
3. What About Love
4. Evenin'
5. She's Evil
6. The Groovy Jam
7. No Fun
8. The Stalker
9. Down Boy Down
10. Leavin'
11. Good Luck
12. Come Back
13. Crazy Mixed Up World
14. Heeby Jeebies

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140557 in Music
• Released on: 2004-06-29
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Nick Curran's career has been on a meteoric rise since the release of his Blind Pig Records debut, Doctor Velvet, winner of the 2004 W.C. Handy Award for "Best New Artist Debut". He's an original new talent who has captured a golden musical moment in time and made it his own. On Player! Nick returns with another superb package of skillfully blended vintage R&B, outrageous jump blues, and down-and-dirty garage rock. With the sophistication of T-Bone Walker and the abandon of Little Richard, Curran infuses each track with urgency and exuberance. Special guests include Fabulous Thunderbird Kim Wilson and The Providence Horns.

Amazon.com
Curran makes both Getting It Right and Getting the Spirit seem easy; his retro blues doesn't give off so much as a whiff of the moldy fig, but neither does he descend into camp, parody, or self-parody. A recovering rockabilly, his heart is with the jump 'n' jive of Wynonie Harris ("Down Boy Down," the instrumental "The Groovy Jam"), but he can also raise a ruckus like Little Richard ("Heeby Jeebies"), head for Chicago (Little Walter's "Crazy Mixed Up World," "Leavin'"), or ease into a classy Duke-Peacock groove (Bobby Bland's "Honey Bee"). As a guitarist, he is solidly in the T-Bone Walker/B.B. King style, but with enough quirks that it never sounds like slavish imitation. His originals hold their own with the chestnuts, and he's such an assured vocalist that ballads like "Come Back" come off as well as the rockers. You'd be hard-pressed to find another album that's as much flat-out fun. --John Morthland

Vintage Guitar Magazine
"Nick and his group mix jump blues, boogie and greasy rock and roll into a perfect stew."

Customer Reviews

Nick Curran and the Nitelifes blow my mind!
I never stop listening and dancing to this CD. When I'm not listening to it I find myself humming or singing the songs! Preston Hubbard, former Fabulous Thunderbirds bass player, and Damien Llanes are an unbeatable rhythm section. Nick Curran has a voice that will melt any woman's heart and guitar skills to boot. With this CD, I never have to think about the stresses of buying gifts that everyone will love!

Excellent
If you are into some of the coolest guitar playing and the sounds of something similar to Little Richard GO GET THIS CD!!
NICK is the BEST and the COOLEST!!

play it
nick curran is an amazing guitarist. got a chance to see him (with preston hubbard on bass) at a small blues club. a freddie king disciple, nick curran can play it all. you can hear the influences - freddie, jimmy vaughn, the fabulous thunderbirds - come out in the precision licks. nick has the perfect voice to fit his songs. see him if you can, until then get this or any of his cd's and you will be swinging daddy-o!