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Lochloosa |  | Artists: Mofro, JJ Grey, JJ Grey & Mofro
Label: Alligator Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 2910
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 014551390725
EAN: 0014551390725
ASIN: B000V6BDS6
Release Date: October 23, 2007
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| Tracks:
| • | Y'all Ready | | • | That Boy | | • | Lochloosa | | • | Dirtfloorcracker | | • | Fireflies | | • | Ten Thousand Islands | | • | Six Ways From Sunday | | • | The Wrong Side | | • | Everybody's | | • | Gal Youngin | | • | How Junior Got His Head Put Out | | • | The Long Way Home | | • | Pray For Rain |
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Amazon.com
Few rock bands in the 2000s are more evocative of a specific geography than Florida's Mofro. You can almost smell the backwoods swamps of the Sunshine State when you're listening to their dusky blend of Southern rock, blues, and soul. The first thing that grabs you about Mofro's sophomore CD is the deep, soulful grooves that permeate every song, whether on up-tempo funky workouts or lowdown gritty laments. Repeated listens reveal a range of subject matter that moves from domestic abuse to rural overdevelopment to the lost innocence (and cuisine) of youth. As a songwriter JJ Grey presents a well-rounded picture of Southern life, with room for both pride and, in some cases, shame, and his expressive, grits-and-gravy voice is the perfect vehicle to deliver it. Lochloosa is an unpretentious, moving, and inviting album that settles into a humid groove from the onset and never leaves it behind. --Marc Greilsamer
Product Description
Florida's Mofro returns with the successor to their critically acclaimed debut, "Blackwater". Their "front porch soul" sound is again represented here, with grooves and anthems that delve deep into the backwoods psyche of songwriter JJ Grey. The music weaves in and out of this piney woods world of undulating joy and sorrow with a rare warmth and sincerity. "Lochloosa", a place in Florida unknown by most Floridians, sings of places you may never visit and people you may never know, but JJ's voice delivers it like a postcard from your best friend.
Originally released in July 2004.
This is an ENHANCED CD: In addition to more than an hour of boombox-optimized barbeque soul, this CD can also be placed in the CD-ROM drive of most computers for a multimedia experience that includes a video of a performance of "Lochloosa" from San Francisco and a bonus audio track entitled "Pray For Rain"
It's got soul, and it's superbad!
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LOVE it July 18, 2010
wendyluch
LOVE Lochloosa and JJ&Mofro...well worth the listen! You'll do it over and over again.
One of the best releasese by this band. March 26, 2010
William F. Leffert
Don't get me wrong, I love Orange Blossoms and Country Ghetto, but they just don't quite grab you the way this album does, considering they have a more "produced/polished" sound (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I'll get into that in a bit).
Sound wise, this has a great acoustic feel, with lots of headroom in the instrumentation. The slide guitar parts are well presented and performed (I'm a slide guitarist myself). Overall, it carries a much slower pace (in my mind) relative to newer releases, which is more congruent with Southern culture in general.
The recording feels a lot more honest in my opinion, carrying with it a feeling of live performance with minimal work done in post. While I myself have a solid background (16 or so years as of writing this) as a performing musician, and can appreciate rhythmic and overall perfection in a performance, there is such a thing as "too perfect". Too much time shifting, retakes and splices can seriously affect a recording to the point of causing it to lose the beauty of the performance. This album does not have that problem, in my opinion.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE JJ Grey & Mofro! January 22, 2010
CME
I was riding in a friend's car one night and while we were talking, this awesome song was playing in the background. The sound of this voice and the music was addicting! I interrupted my friend mid-sentence and asked, "Who is this!?!" He told me about this group he saw at Skippers in FL and how much he liked them. The song was Lochloosa and I asked to borrow the CD that night. I found myself listening to it over and over again! A couple months later I finally ordered my own Lochloosa CD and returned my friend's CD to him. I'm telling you - every song on this CD is awesome!
JJ Grey and Mofro are OUTSTANDING. Now, several months later, I own ALL of their CDs and have seen them live twice - once in Florida and once in Virginia (drove all the way there from FL to see them at a festival in the Blue Ridge Parkway!) I'm looking forward to seeing them again in a few months! This group is amazing live and on CD!
If everyone listened to this music there would be less hate in the world today! Their music makes me feel happy, funky, and spiritual all at the same time. XOXO to JJ Grey and Mofro!
One of my all-time favorites June 20, 2009
Nobody important
Some albums sound great the first time you hear them, but don't hold up well over time. Some albums are an acquired taste, but reveal subtle brilliance through repeated listening. Some just get stuck in your head, and never leave. This album falls into that last category for me. I bought it a few years ago, and liked it quite a bit. Now, I love it. It just gets stuck in your head.
This was Mofro's second album. Their first album, Blackwater, was an impressive piece of down-home, funky blues that sounded a bit like a demo, but that somehow fit the groove. This one is a masterpiece of swamp soul-blues and acoustic funk with a perfect combination of vintage keyboards, acoustic slide guitar, harmonica, and J.J. Grey's perfectly weathered voice on a set of songs so soulful and evocative that once you hear them, you can never forget them. Just listening to this album makes you feel like you are sitting around at a BBQ with a few good friends in a beautifully rustic setting. Few albums can evoke a place and a mood like this one. Like Blackwater, the music sounds a bit sloppy, but the interaction between Daryl Hance's acoustic slide guitar (which is more prominent here than on any of Mofro's other albums), the keyboards and J.J.'s voice just makes you feel like you are sitting with them at an intimate house concert, which is a difficult feel for an album to get, and the impromptu feel of the recording helps to create it. I just can't say enough positive about this album.
The two albums that have come since are a bit cleaner. Daryl Hance's slide guitar is less prominent, horns feature more prominently, and the sound is generally more electric and bigger. However, they still have what makes Mofro's music so evocative-- the effective use of space. The key to Mofro's music is that the musicians never get in each others' way, and they leave plenty of space between the notes. That is what creates the swampy grove, and that is a lesson that many musicians could stand to learn.
Further listening: J.J. Grey draws a lot of inspiration from famous soul singers, but he gets his swamp music feel straight from the swamp fox himself, Tony Joe White. Eric Lindell goes for a similar, but more urban and less swampy sound. Damon Fowler is an up-and-coming master of swampy blues. Galactic's first album, Coolin' Off, is more funk than blues, but employs space with equal effectiveness. Also, try Papa Mali's first album, Thunder Chicken. Note that many of these albums came out on the same label that originally released Lochloosa.
 Like it alot January 12, 2009
Kelli (Gainesville, fl, usa)
I really do like the CD. Although it's not my favorite of theirs. It does have alot of good songs on it, I find myself listening to the other CD's more.
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