Performer Notes

Personnel: Skip McDonald (vocals, guitar); Paget King (keyboards); Doug Wimbish (bass guitar); Will Calhoun (drums, percussion); Keith LeBlanc, Nick Coplowe (drum programming); Madeleine Edgehill, Carlton Ogilvie, Denise Sherwood (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Nick Coplowe.
Recording information: On-U Sound Studio One And Studio Two, London, England (2005); Studio Moliere, Brussels, Belgium (2005); Studio Two, London, England (2005).
Photographers: York Tillyer; Marc Bessant.
Little Axe is guitarist and singer Skip McDonald, but it's also much more than that. It is, in practice, a virtual reunion of the Sugarhill Gang -- the rhythm section responsible for the grooves underlying such paleo-hip-hop classics as "Rapper's Delight" and "White Lines" -- and therefore also a virtual reunion of Tackhead, the pioneering avant funk outfit that brought the Sugarhill Gang together with British producer Adrian Sherwood and vocalists Gary Clail and Bernard Fowler. In the Little Axe context, though, the focus is squarely on McDonald and on his overriding passion: vintage blues. Imagine a Delta blues aesthetic (spare, rural, and stark), and then imagine it thickened with additional instrumental layers and twisted with dubwise atmospherics, and you'll have some idea what to expect -- sort of like a posthumous collaboration between Howlin' Wolf and African Head Charge. The second Little Axe album features mostly McDonald originals, along with some well-chosen covers from the likes of Allen Toussaint, Skip James, and former Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun. But even his originals owe a deep debt to the work of his forefathers -- "If I Had My Way," for example, takes its whole chorus from the gospel classic "Samson and Delilah." Stone Cold Ohio is a real rarity: an album that can't be mistaken for anything other than blues, but that sounds nothing like any blues album you've ever heard. ~ Rick Anderson

Professional Reviews

Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The songs] summon up swampy old blues cottonfield and chain-gang ghosts amid elaborate modern-time electronic ambiences."

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Album: Stone Cold Ohio
#	Song Title	Time
1)	If I Had My Way
2)	Jive Talk
3)	Same People
4)	Rockin' Shoes
5)	Pray
6)	Prisoner
7)	Victims
8)	Let Me Ride
9)	Trouble in Mind
10)	Blueneck Dub
11)	Hard Times
12)	Almighty
13)	No Bottom
14)	She
15)	No More Mourning

Album: Stone Cold Ohio
#	Song Title	Time
1)	If I Had My Way
2)	Jive Talk
3)	Same People
4)	Rockin' Shoes
5)	Pray
6)	Prisoner
7)	Victims
8)	Let Me Ride
9)	Trouble in Mind
10)	Blueneck Dub
11)	Hard Times
12)	Almighty
13)	No Bottom
14)	She
15)	No More Mourning