national steel (album)

align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|National Steel
lign="center" colspan="3"\|National Steel
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|CD by Colin James
lign="left" valign="top"\|Released	colspan="2" valign="top"\|October 8 1997
lign="left" valign="top"\|Recorded	colspan="2" valign="top"\|1997 (?)
lign="left" valign="top"\|Genre	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Blues
lign="left" valign="top"\|Length	colspan="2" valign="top"\|50 min 41 sec
lign="left" valign="top"\|Record label	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Warner Music Canada
lign="left" valign="top"\|Producers	colspan="2" valign="top"\|Colin James, Colin Linden
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|Professional reviews
lign="left" valign="top"\|All Music Guide	valign="top" align=center\|3/5	valign="top"\|link
lign="left" valign="top"\|ARTISTdirect	valign="top" align=center\|3/5	valign="top"\|link
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"\|Colin James Chronology
align="top"\|Bad Habits (1995)	valign="top"\|National Steel (1997)	valign="top"\|Colin James and the Little Big Band II (1998)

National Steel is a blues album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music). The album was recorded at Rat's Ass Studios and Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia and mastered at MasterDisk in New York City. James teams up with his longtime friend Colin Linden to record a predominantly acoustic album running the gamut from delta blues, to jug band and Chicago blues. The album covers songs written by some of the greatest bluesmen including Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and Willie Dixon. The CD liner notes offer a brief commentary by James on many of the tracks. National Steel earned James the 1998 Juno Award for "Best Blues Album".

Track listing

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