пятница, 11 ноября 2022 г.

среда, 9 ноября 2022 г.

среда, 2 ноября 2022 г.

пятница, 15 июля 2022 г.

Dennis Johnson - Revelation (2022)


 Dennis Johnson Announces New Studio Album ‘Revelation,’ Featuring Anton Fig

Critically acclaimed slide guitarist Dennis Johnson has announced the upcoming release of his brand-new studio album ‘Revelation’, due out on July 15. ‘Revelation’ is a slide guitar infused blues rock album that showcases Dennis Johnson pushing slide guitar to new limits, rocking the house. “This is the record I was meant to make” explains Johnson.


A dramatic leap forward for one of the world’s elite slide guitar players, Revelation features some of the most expressive slide guitar you will hear today. His new sound has a raw and vital flavor, combined with a resolute skill that can only be gained through years of perseverance and unyielding dedication. Filled with blues-rockers that show off, respectively, the gutsier and softer side of Johnson’s vocal and slide guitar ability, plus a series of emotive, story-telling solos shaped by Johnson’s uncanny agility on slide guitar.


The rhythm section on the album is anchored by legendary drummer Anton Fig, who has recorded and performed with numerous music luminaries including Joe Bonamassa. Anton Fig is well known as the drummer for Late Night with David Letterman. “Bringing Anton Fig onboard for this record really set the bar with some extraordinary grooves.” Johnson said. “He is one of the best drummers on the world.”


Bassist Jonathan Stoyanoff provides grooving basslines and backing vocals. Stoyanoff, known for this work with Joe Craven, has performed with Dennis Johnson for years. “Jonathan and I were really able to hone in the connection between the bass and guitar for this album.” Johnson explained. “Its our best work together.”


Playing piano and B3 on the album is phenomenal keyboardist Bob Fridzema, known for his work with Walter Trout and Joanna Shaw Taylor. “Bob is a player with great ears to pick spots to weave into a song with a vocal or guitar part.” Johnson said. “Bob really rocked it on this record.”


Engineer Chris Bell, renowned for his works with the likes of Kenny Wayne Shepard, Samantha Fish, and The Eagles, mixed nine songs for the album. Chris stated “I had a blast mixing this record. The pocket and groove are extraordinary!” Famed producer and engineer Kevin Shirley who has worked with Joe Bonnamassa, Aerosmith, and Led Zeppelin, mixed one of the songs for the album.




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суббота, 25 июня 2022 г.

Matty T Wall – Live Down Underground (2022)


 From sweet blues to gritty, stomping, blues-rocking beats, and now having seven nominations in the Independent Blues Awards, a Western Australian Music Award win and three back-to-back Number One Australian Blues albums, this is a breakout Australian blues artist you do not want to miss out on seeing.


The Matty T Wall band returns to the stage more motivated and addictively electric than ever with two killer rhythm legends of the scene, Ric Whittle on drums and Leigh Miller on bass guitar.


While the music that Matty plays has roots in the past, he is a very much an artist in the present. Through his reverence for historic musical forms, he is not emulating, but redefining these sounds, as he introduces classic genres to new listeners and invests them with his own trademark.




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воскресенье, 5 июня 2022 г.

Kardang - We Ain't Dead Yet (2022)


 Melodic Hard Rock/Norway

After releasing several singles and a mini-album, the Norwegian rock band KARDANG presented a full-length album on 3.06.2022.

Line Up :

Vocals: Chris Williams

Guitar: Jonkys

Guitar: Boogie Silver

Drums: Freddy Boner

Bass: Terry Hammer


Lettuce - Unify (2022)


 Lettuce

Lettuce is a New York-based funk jam band whose members have been successful together as well as individually. The collective's driving, good-time party music and magnetic live performances have been witnessed on recordings and radio programs, in clubs and concert halls, and on festival stages all over the globe. Utilizing hip-hop, jazz, New Orleans R&B, blues, and rock in their gumbo, this outfit updated the sound of classic '70s funk for a new generation. The band's founding members include guitarists Eric Krasno and Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnof, keyboardist Neal Evans, drummer Adam Deitch, saxophonists Ryan Zoidis and Sam Kininger, and bassist Erick "E.D." Coomes. The band's debut long-player, Outta Here, wasn't released until 2002, on their tenth anniversary. By the time of its release, Krasno and Neal Evans, were working members of Soulive, and Deitch had been a member of John Scofield's road band for a while. But recording seemed to be the least of Lettuce's career concerns. They continued to tour the globe and work on side and joint projects for another six years before Rage! appeared on Velour. Two decades after they began, they entered the jazz album charts at number six with 2012's Fly, and three years later topped them with Crush. In 2017, after a quarter-century together, they issued their live tribute to Miles Davis with Witches Stew, before returning to the studio for 2019's Elevate and 2020's Resonate.

Lettuce got together in 1992 while still in their teens. They were attending a summer program at Boston's Berklee College of Music and were drawn together by a mutual love of Earth Wind & Fire, Tower of Power, and jazz-funk acts like Headhunters. Staying in touch and informally jamming together over the next year, they reassembled formally in 1994 upon returning to Berklee as undergrads. A live set was put together and members went door to door at jazz clubs asking owners to "let us play." Their name derives from those origins. Lettuce eventually got their chance. They made good on it with fine material and an energetic live show. They got lots of local work. As word spread, they also built a reputation in New York first, and eventually in San Francisco and Tokyo. They toured as much as possible for the next eight years. In the interim, Krasno, Evans, and Kininger formed the groove trio Soulive, Lettuce's brother band.

Deitch is also a member of Break Science and has played with everyone from John Scofield and 50 Cent to Talib Kweli and Wyclef Jean. Coomes, a California native, is a noted producer, musical director for Anthony Hamilton's band, and a touring bassist for Britney Spears and the Game. Veteran trumpeter Rashawn Ross (another Berklee alum) joined the band as a part-time member (he was already working as a touring musician elsewhere). The group issued Live in Tokyo, recorded at Japan's Blue Note. Lettuce toured whenever feasible, given the bandmembers' other commitments, making their shows bona fide events. Rage! was issued in 2009. Also receiving nearly universal critical notice, it served to enhance the band's reputation on the live circuit -- especially when they played as part of a one-two punch with Soulive. Kininger left both groups in 2010. Ross became a full-time member of Dave Matthews Band, and was replaced by full-time trumpeter Eric "Benny" Bloom in 2011.

In 2012, Lettuce released Fly. The album featured an extended reading of War's classic "Slipping Into Darkness," and offered a moving and sophisticated tribute to the legendary New Orleans arranger and composer Zigaboo Modeliste entitled "Ziggawatt." Another track, "Jack Flask," illustrated on vinyl what the band had been exploring live for some time: an emergent post-psychedelic influence. Lettuce played with the Soul Rebels Brass Band on Jam Cruise 2013 and eventually re-entered the recording studio with co-producer/engineer Joel Hamilton. They brought in Ross as a second trumpeter. Crush featured a guest vocal appearance from Tedeschi Trucks Band's Alecia Chakour on a wild update of Bobbie Gentry's "He Made a Woman Out of Me," offering the band's first recorded nod to EDM. The rest of the set mixed bass-heavy funk and groove jazz, hip-hop beats, and guitar- and keyboard-heavy psychedelia. Crush was released in November of 2015 and hit the top spot on U.S. jazz album charts. A year later, a seven-track EP of new tracks and Crush session B-sides was issued. Mt. Crushmore featured Alecia Chakour on "The Love You Left Behind." Recorded live at the 2016 Catskill Chill in Lakewood, Pennsylvania, the 2017 concert LP Witches Stew celebrated the works of Miles Davis. In 2019, the band released their eclectic sixth studio long-player, Elevate, which featured guest spots from Marcus King and Nigel Hall. The set was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Contemporary Instrumental album. The Russ Elevado-produced Resonate arrived in 2020.




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