Who week after week follow the adventures of Dr. House On television, you will have noticed the passion that the famous medical detective has for music. Well, as has been said so many times, not everything is fiction. Hugh Laurie, the talented English actor who gives life to the singular physician, is a declared music lover, who has had a great affection for the southern blues of the United States since he was a child.
This love for the blues, coupled with a solid training as a pianist that began at age 6, led him to record let them talk, album in which he covers great references of the scene. For such a large company, Laurie managed to gather a handful of artists, including the singer Irma thomas, winner of a Grammy and nicknamed the Queen of Soul of New Orleans; the charismatic Tom Jones; the composer and producer Allen toussaint, a leading R&B figure from New Orleans; and the stainless and off-road Dr John Creaux, whom Laurie reveres. For his part, the ideologue of the album puts voice and body in all the songs, in addition to taking care of the piano or the guitar, as the occasion requires.
Despite such a team, Laurie was committed to the smallest detail, and worked side by side with the legendary Joe henry, invited to act as producer. In dialogue with the press, the actor said he was “delighted to work with Joe Henry, who has produced some of my all-time favorite records. "
In their official presentation, the band performed three songs: Swanee river, a beautiful relic written and composed in the mid-1800s by Stephen foster; The Whale Has Swallowed Me, JB Lenoir, a reflection of the struggle for civil rights in America in the 60s; and the classic You don't know my mind, Lead belly, another of the founding blues symbols.
let them talk the second week of May all over the world, and it will have 15 songs, among which you can find pieces of Ray Charles, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Memphis Slim, Lead Belly, Professor Longhair and Jelly Roll Morton, in addition to the aforementioned.