| Lettin' Go | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Son Seals |
| Cover: | Lettin' Go (album).jpg |
| Released: | 2000 |
| Label: | Telarc |
| Producer: | Son Seals, Jimmy Vivino |
| Prev Title: | Nothing but the Truth |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
Lettin' Go is the final studio album by Son Seals, released in 2000.[1] [2] It was his only album for Telarc.[3]
In 2001, at the 22nd W.C. Handy Blues Awards (since 2006 the Blues Music Awards), 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.[4]
The album was produced by Seals and Jimmy Vivino.[5] Al Kooper contributed Hammond B-3 organ. The album's final track, a remake of Seal's "Funky Bitch", features Phish's Trey Anastasio.[6] Two of the album's songs were cowritten with novelist Andrew Vachss.[7]
AllMusic called the album "a sturdy, hard-hitting, and above all welcome comeback album from one of the acknowledged greats of Chicago blues guitar." The Washington Post 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."[6] The Chicago Tribune 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."[8]