Album Review:
Dog My Cat
- Release Date: 2001
- Genre: Rock
- Label: Dog My Cat
- Artist: Harry Manx
- Flags: Lyrics are included with the album
- Rating:
- Styles: Slide Guitar Blues, Raga
- Track Picks: "Brick and Stone," "Can't Be Satisfied," "Rag Bihag (Dusk Rag)"
Review
Slide guitarist Harry Manx was born in the U.K., raised in Canada, and lived and worked in Europe and Japan before spending five years studying Indian slide guitar under the great Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. This is his first solo album, and as one might expect, it's a fascinating hodgepodge of differing musical traditions. Happily, Dog My Cat has none of the hippie-dippy multicultural piety that afflicts so many East-meets-West musical experiments -- Manx's approach to the blues is gritty and straightforward, his original songs are tight and tuneful, and when he pauses to play a raga (as he does twice on this album), he manages to imbue the Indian musical form with a soulful depth that somehow has nothing and everything to do with the blues. Highlights are hard to identify on this album because its quality is so consistently high, but his rendition of the Muddy Waters standard "Can't Be Satisfied" is especially fine, as are his own "Love Ain't No Game" and the traditional "Reuben's Train." ~ Rick Anderson, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | iTunes | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Can't Be Satisfied |  |
McKinley Morganfield | Harry Manx | (3:17) |
| Bring That Thing | |
Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (5:09) |
| Good Morning Stranger | Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (3:04) | |
| Reuben's Train | |
Traditional | Harry Manx | (4:05) |
| Lay Down My Worries | Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (3:18) | |
| Rag Bihag (Dusk Rag) | Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (1:50) | |
| Sunday Morning Ascension | |
Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (3:28) |
| Baby Please Don't Go | Big Joe Williams | Harry Manx | (2:44) | |
| Brick and Stone | Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (2:59) | |
| Song for William | Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (1:56) | |
| Love Ain't No Game | Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (4:11) | |
| Shame Shame Shame | Jimmy Reed | Harry Manx | (3:11) | |
| Rag Jog (Evening Rag) | Harry Manx | Harry Manx | (1:14) |
