Hyena; 2007
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; June 7, 2007 
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
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Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
Studio album by James Blood Ulmer
Released  May 8, 2007
Recorded  2006
Genre  Blues
Length  48:48
Label  Hyena
Producer  Vernon Reid
James Blood Ulmer chronology
Birthright
(2004)  Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions
(2007)  In and Out
(2009)

Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in New Orleans at the Piety Street Recording Studios and released on the Hyena label in 2007.[1]
Contents

    1 Reception
    2 Track listing
    3 Personnel
    4 References

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The creative place Blood finds himself in his partnership with Reid is yielding great [bad word]  This album is the strongest of their collaborations thus far, and is a wild ride through blues, R&B, and hard-driving distorted and feedback-laced — yet utterly musical — New Orleans funk. It's a monster".[2]
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source  Rating
Allmusic  4/5 stars[2]
Track listing

    [bad word] by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated

    "Survivors of the Hurricane" - 3:53
    "Sad Days, Lonely Nights" (Junior Kimbrough) – 5:59
    "Katrina" – 3:46
    "Let's Talk About Jesus" – 4:19
    "This Land Is Nobody's Land" (John Lee Hooker) – 5:18
    "Dead Presidents" (Willie Dixon, William R. Emerson) – 4:40
    [bad word] a Crime" (Chester Burnett) – 5:21
    "Grinnin' in Your Face" (Eddie J. House Jr.) – 4:36
    "There Is Power in the Blues" – 2:28
    "Backwater Blues" (Traditional) – 5:52
    "Old Slave Master" – 2:36

        Recorded at Piety Street Studios, New Orleans in 2006

Personnel

    James Blood Ulmer - guitar, vocals
    Vernon Reid - electric guitar, acoustic guitar
    Charles Burnham - violin, mandolin
    Leon [bad word] - Fender Rhodes, piano, Hammond B3 organ, keyboards, mellotron, clarinet
    David Barnes - harmonica
    Mark Peterson - electric bass, double bass
    Aubrey Dayle - [bad word]  percussion
    Irene Datcher - vocals (track 4)