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15 tracks | 60 minutes
Released Aug 2005
on Ethnobeat Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:38 Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho lyrics BUY MP3 03:38 Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:38 Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:18 Delta Dawn lyrics BUY MP3 04:18 Delta Dawn lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:18 Delta Dawn
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:48 Misty lyrics BUY MP3 04:48 Misty lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:48 Misty
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:37 Detroit City lyrics BUY MP3 03:37 Detroit City lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:37 Detroit City
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:04 Henry Koh's Lullaby lyrics BUY MP3 02:04 Henry Koh's Lullaby lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:04 Henry Koh's Lullaby
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 Theme From the Godfather lyrics BUY MP3 03:42 Theme From the Godfather lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:42 Theme From the Godfather
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:41 Kansas City Blues lyrics BUY MP3 02:41 Kansas City Blues lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:41 Kansas City Blues
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:58 Rhythm of the Rain lyrics BUY MP3 03:58 Rhythm of the Rain lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:58 Rhythm of the Rain
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:15 Can't Buy Me Love lyrics BUY MP3 04:15 Can't Buy Me Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:15 Can't Buy Me Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:33 Love Potion Number Nine lyrics BUY MP3 03:33 Love Potion Number Nine lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:33 Love Potion Number Nine
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:48 Killing Me Softly lyrics BUY MP3 05:48 Killing Me Softly lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:48 Killing Me Softly
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:19 One Room Country Shack lyrics BUY MP3 02:19 One Room Country Shack lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:19 One Room Country Shack
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:04 House of the Rising Sun lyrics BUY MP3 06:04 House of the Rising Sun lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:04 House of the Rising Sun
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:42 Five Hundred Miles lyrics BUY MP3 04:42 Five Hundred Miles lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:42 Five Hundred Miles
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:01 Sitting On Top of the World lyrics BUY MP3 05:01 Sitting On Top of the World lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:01 Sitting On Top of the World
Highly recommended to guitar enthusiasts and lovers of soulful music, Paul Ponnudorai's exceptional debut album features fingerstyle guitar in the style of Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel, but taken to a whole new level...
Bio / Background
A virtuoso guitarist and a superb, inspired singer, Paul Ponnudorai defies musical boundaries with disarming easiness. He is one of a handful of musicians around the world who rather than just playing music, can afford to play with music. In fact, this album is an exceptional document of his ability and audacity in first dismantling, and then restructuring and reshaping songs, to make them sound unlike anything you have heard before. Right On Time is highly recommended not only to guitar enthusiasts and audiophiles, but to anyone who has a taste for soulful music, for funky grooves, and for beautiful, timeless songs.
Paul Ponnudorai's uniqueness in approaching music is embedded in his geographical roots. Being Malaysian by birth, being of Indian heritage, and being trilingual, Paul represents both as a person and a musician the point of conjunction between East and West. He is a man of rare intelligence, wisdom, and broad knowledge, with a cross-cultural view of the world.
↓ more ↓Without a doubt these qualities surface in his music, whose origins can equally be traced to Southern India, London and Nashville. It is refreshing to notice how many seemingly unrelated influences can go into Paul's playing and singing, always in the most spontaneous and sincere way.
Sincerity is nonetheless the main trait of Paul Ponnudorai's life and music. His big heart and warm soul come clearly to light in his music, which displays the whole range of human emotions, being at times sad and low, at other times permeated by an irresistible sense of humor. A sense of humor that, incidentally, is a special gift given only to those artists who are too good to bother with taking themselves too seriously.
Whether he plays acoustic or electric guitar, solo or with a band, on a stage or in the studio, Paul Ponnudorai is instinctively at ease in every situation. Although this recording presents only one of his many facets, the solo dimension, it is indeed a detailed photography of his extraordinary stature as a musician. Just consider that all of these tracks were recorded at the first take, with no guitar or vocal overdubs of any kind, except for the guitar solo on "Henry Koh's Lullaby". Everything you hear-bass lines, chord progressions, solos, vocals-comes out of Paul all at the same time, with no tricks. Nothing is artificial here, on this recording Paul plays and sings exactly like he does every night at his gigs. The only concession to technology is a midi processor that he uses in order to obtain his trademark bass sound out of the two lower strings of the guitar. In two short afternoons in the studio Paul recorded so many tunes, that the most difficult part of making this record has been the choice over what songs not to include!
Try also to pay close attention to the variety of the musical influences that go into Paul's style. You can hear reminiscences of Jerry Reed, Tito Puente, B.B.King, João Gilberto, George Benson, Tower of Power and many more in his guitar licks, in his powerful slapping bass lines, and in his percussive effects. Yet everything is blended into a convincing and distinctive style, which is signature Paul Ponnudorai. It is common procedure for Paul to steer the traditional gospel Jericho and the popular Rising Sun into funk territories, making them almost unrecognizable, or to give Misty a bossa-nova-meets-Cuba treatment. The Godfather is turned into a sort of a tribute to Chet Atkins, and Delta Dawn here sounds like it was written by Stevie Wonder. Paul's love for jazz, country, rock, blues, pop, reggae, and for beautiful ballads, is obvious all through this record. So are his talent and his unique voice as a musician.
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