''Lettin' Go'' is the final studio album by

Son Seals Frank "Son" Seals (August 13, 1942 – December 20, 2004) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. In 2009, Seals was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Career Seals was born in Osceola, Arkansas, where his father, Jim "Son" Sea ...

, released in 2000. It was his only album for Telarc. In 2001, at the 22nd W.C. Handy Blues Awards (since 2006 the

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s), ''Lettin' Go'' was nominated for Blues Album of the Year and Traditional Blues Album of the Year. It won the award in the latter category.

Production

The album was produced by Seals and

Jimmy Vivino Jimmy Vivino (born January 10, 1955) is an American guitarist, keyboard player, singer, producer, and music director. He is best known as having been the leader of Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band, the house band for the TBS late night ...

. Al Kooper contributed Hammond B-3 organ. The album's final track, a remake of Seal's "Funky Bitch", features Phish's Trey Anastasio. Two of the album's songs were cowritten with novelist Andrew Vachss.

Critical reception

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called the album "a sturdy, hard-hitting, and above all welcome comeback album from one of the acknowledged greats of Chicago blues guitar." ''

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'' wrote that "guitar fans will appreciate the many opportunities that Seals gets to show off his six-string skills, which produce a flurry of stinging high notes and guttural slurs." The ''

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'' wrote: "''Lettin' Go'' is most refreshing when the band jumps away from the confining electric-blues formula; 'Osceola Rock' rewrites Elvis Presley's 'Jailhouse Rock' as a rollicking tribute to Seals' Arkansas hometown."

Track listing

#"Bad Blood" – 4:46 #"Let It Go" – 4:21 #"Give the Devil His Due" – 5:24 #"Doc's Blues" – 3:35 #"Hair On A Frog" – 4:03 #"Jelly, Jelly" – 7:07 #"Osceola Rock" - 4:21 #"Dear Son" - 6:57 #"I Got Some Of My Money" - 4:32 #"Rockin' and Rollin' Tonight" - 3:02 #"Bad Luck Child" - 5:06 #"Blues Holy Ghost" - 5:52 #"Love Had A Breakdown" - 5:22 #"Funky Bitch" - 5:58

References

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