Kim Field And The Perfect Gentlemen

Don’t Need But One

Independent

Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen is all-star blues and roots music band based in Portland, Oregon. The group’s members have performed throughout the U.S. and Europe at such showcases as Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Tampa Bay Blues Festival, and on the Legendary Blues Cruise. They have shared stages with rhythm and blues legends Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Cotton, Otis Rush, Albert Collins, Big  Mama Thornton, Curtis Salgado and many others.

Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen include Field, harmonica and vocals; Vyasa Dodson, guitar and vocals; Whit Draper, guitar and backing vocals; Denny Bixby,  bass (Chet Atkins) and harmony vocal; and Jimi Bott, drums, percussion, and backing vocals (The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Mannish Boys, and The Proven Ones), and a Blues Music Award winner for Best Drummer. The horn section  features Joe McCarthy, trumpet and horn arrangements; Chris Mercer, tenor sax; Rob Rayfield, baritone sax; and Brian Kent, horn arrangment on “So Dark In Here”.

Six songs were written by Field, four by Dodson, and there is one cover. On the  opening title track Fields sounds like John Nemeth as he sings “don’t need but one, one woman, tell the truth now, tell the truth now, well if you can’t sit down with one  woman, she’s gonna have to cut back, don’t need but one”. On “Please Don’t Ask Me”, Field chimes “where I’m goin’ when I don’t know where I’ve been, just point me in the wrong direction girl, and I’ll be on my way…don’t ask me for directions, I don’t know where I’m goin'”.

“Black Diamonds”, “what do you do when your best is not enough…I mean to tell you that’s when life gets really tough…you left your ring when you said that we must part, and now that perfect diamond is just as black as my heart”. “What Kind of Fool” features a great two guitar attack from Dodson and Draper, “this morning when I woke up in bed…what kind of fool do you think I am…tell me pretty baby cause I need to understand”. “Dress The Monkey” is an original instrumental from  Field.

“All These Little Things”, “All these little things, your smile so deep…at home and on the street…cause when she’s down, you’ll find that bottle…and the love she  gave when you turned down that bed…all these little things”. “I Give In” is another  song, sung by Dodson, “at home with your love…and I walk away…it happens all  the time…now I know where my heart is willing to go…as long as I have you”,  Field demonstrates his range as he reaches for those high notes.

“Emergency” is another instrumental this time written by Dodson. “So Dark In Here” features a fabulous tenor sax solo from Mercer, “well it’s dark, so dark in here, I sit and wait for the love…every one has someone, why can’t I have you…everyone’s  gone somewhere why can’t I travel too…I know that time will slowly turn my way”.

“Flower Shop” is another instrumental this time written by Dodson. On the closer, “The Man That Got Away” written by Arlen and Gershwin, Louis Pain is featured  on the Hammond B-3, on a song originally sung by Judy Garland in 1954 from  “A Star Is Born”, once again it is performed as an instrumental.

On “Don’t Need But One” the debut album from Kim Field and the Perfect  Gentlemen, the band continues to establish themselves as one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier R n’ B acts.

Richard Ludmerer

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