Kris Barras Band - Light It Up (2019)

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Tracklist:

1. What You Get
2. Broken Teeth
3. Vegas Son
4. Ignite (Light It Up)
5. 6AM
6. Rain
7. Counterfeit People
8. Let The River Run
9. Bullet
10. Wound Up
11. What A Way To Go
12. Not Fading
13. Pride Is Forever






On Friday September 13, 2019, the Kris Barras Band will release their new album Light It Up, via Mascot Label Group/Provogue. Over the last 18 months the Kris Barras Band have become one of the hottest and fastest rising rock acts in the UK. He had stopped as an MMA fighter and self-released his 2016 debut album, he was playing pub venues to 20-50 people playing ZZ Top covers amongst originals, did a handful of blues festivals, played London only twice (as a support artist) and his aim was to get played on Planet Rock Radio. He was close to giving up on music, the next album was his one last shot. 'The Divine And Dirty' was released on Provogue on 23 March 2018. Then the ball started rolling. The Kris Barras Band have played 4 UK headline tours, supported Beth Hart, Joanne Shaw Taylor, and this led to slots with GUN, King King, The Magpie Salute and Therapy? plus Jonny Lang & Walter Trout on Provogue's Rockin' The Blues festival tour. After winning Planet Rock's Best New Band Award, Kris was invited to becoming a special guest presenter for 2 shows. If this wasn’t enough, Kris also joined Supersonic Blues Machine as lead singer/guitarist in July 2018 and toured Europe with the band and Billy F Gibbons! He features on the upcoming 'Road Chronicles: Live' album. Kris Barras - from MMA fighter to hottest rising rock act in the UK. From "wanting to be played" on radio to being a presenter. From playing ZZ Top songs in a pub to actually being in a band with Billy F Gibbons. The future for the Kris Barras Band looks very exciting!

Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene - City of Love 2019

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1 Goin' for Broke
2 Leanin' In
Singapore Downbeat
4 City of Love
5 Tears of Heartache
6 Ragin*
7 Crawl
8 Rain or Shine
9 Down Down
10 All Night Long
11 Under Your Spell
12 My Baby's Cornin' Home

PRESS

"The vintage tones swing and punch – like early ‘60s Wanda Jackson possessing a young Joan Jett as backed by the Stray Cats. But after looking under the hood of Let’s Do This Thing, there’s much more here than a classic engine. [Kerry Pastine] delivers some next level you-know-what."
- Eric Shea - Pandora Pick of the Week

"Kerry Pastine & the Crime Scene's songs should be in Quentin Tarantino movies. There’s a fierceness in the band’s energetic live shows; the musicians clearly feed off of each other."
- Jon Solomon - Westword Feature Article 

"These folks are nasty and fun my friends... Beware, judging from what I've been hearing, they will not be Denver's little secret for long." 
- Dan Aykroyd (aka Elwood Blues) - House of Blues Radio Hour

"[Kerry Pastine] got the best response I saw all day, with people actually out on the floor and dancing. And rightly so: The energy was high and lively, and the grooves were flawless. Verdict: A group of fantastic musicians obviously having a great time at what they do... Throw them to the top of the heap of festival bands."
- Jef Otte - Westword 

"[Kerry Pastine delivers] old-school rock & roll that shouts wonderful and diverse testimonies of the human condition. [The music is a mix of] unruly garage rock, boppin' rockabilly, jumped-up blues and pointy-toe soul. Confidence-to-kill playing suits [Kerry Pastine's] whip crack vibe. This fun skirts dangerousness, but that's OK -- it's on our side. Recommended."
- DC Larson - No Depression

"Masterfully blending with the satin and kick of instruments that waste not one note, [Kerry Pastine's voice] flows effortlessly across the 12 diamond-sharp tracks. [She] is able to angle, crack and pop the songs in a way that suggests a renewal more than a retread." 
- Richard Davis - Ol' Skool Rods Magazine

"...These guys 'get it' and understand how to take a bit from the past, add bit from the present and come up with something familiar yet fresh." 
- Rick Galusha - Blueswax Ezine

"Simply put, Kerry Pastine's voice could bring the smokiest, sweatiest dive bar to its knees. She's got the swagger of [Janis] Joplin and skills of [Alanis] Morissette with a band behind her jumping effortlessly from pop to deep blues but never losing the rock energy." 
- Tim Wenger - Colorado Music Buzz Magazine

Zoe Green Band - Zoe Green Band 2019

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Tracklist:
1. Gotsta Get Away (3:00)
2. Catch A Fall (2:59)
3. Rise Up (4:59)
4. How To Love (4:38)
5. Goin' To The Grave (4:44)
6. Bein' The Blues (4:45)
7. Bad Ass Beryl (3:53)
8. Take Me Down (3:00)
9. Double Truth Woman (5:34)
10. I'd Rather Go Blind (7:09)
11. Paralysed (1:15)

The ZGB album has been mastered by Jon Astley (The Who, Eagles, David Bowie, John Mayall, Tori Amos, etc!) and is now sent off for pressing! Pre-orders will be sent out by the end of August and will be on the merch stand at Colne Festival (August 25th). A fun day was had filming a music video with the very talented Nick J. Townsend (Rebecca Downes, Harry and the Howlers) at a wonderful bar called Joe Joe Jims in B'ham (a truly historical place full of memorabilia, arcade games, strange sights and beautiful features). Looking forward to sending this your way soon...

So! Finally the ZGB debut originals album has been mixed, mastered and sent off for pressing! Expect pre-orders in the post by the end of August and on the merch stall at Colne Blues Festival (August 25th). I spent a fab day yesterday filming ZGBs first music video with the wonderful Nick J. Townsend (the talented film maker behind music videos for Rebecca Downes and Harry and the Howlers). We had a-lot of fun frolicking about in Joe Joe Jims Bar in B'ham! Coming soon....

The Paul DesLauriers Band - Bounce (2019)

Источник:Blues Smokehouse
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Tracklist:

1. Here We Go
2. It's All on You
3. Let Me Go Down in Flames
4. Take Me to the Brink
5. Happy Wasting Time With You
6. Driving Me Insane
7. Jumpin' at Shadows
8. Working My Way Back Home
9. Picked a Bad Day
10. When the Darkness Comes
11. Feeling All Kinds of Good
12. Loosy Goosy Jam #769
13. Waiting on You

Three years after the 2016 release of their award-winning CD Relentless, Montreal’s The Paul DesLauriers Band is back with their ambitious new album Bounce, set for release on May 31 on Bros Records.

Bounce was recorded during breaks from their extensive 2018 Canadian, US and European tours. The power blues-rock trio laid down 13 new songs with 12 originals including “Picked A Bad Day”, a collaboration recorded with American bluesman JP Soars in Florida and 1 cover, the Anthony "Duster" Bennett song “Jumpin' at Shadows” (popularized by Peter Green during his tenure in Fleetwood Mac).

Deeply anchored in the blues-rock idiom, Bounce is the trio’s most accomplished recording to date, led by the first-rate vocals and guitar of Paul DesLauriers, Sam Harrisson’s precise and masterful drums and newcomer Alec McElcheran on bass. The level of musical chemistry and comradery at work here is undeniable.

The Paul DesLauriers Band will be embarking on tours that will showcase their original brand of blues-rock to audiences in Germany, Switzerland and the US before they get to meet their Canadian fans on summer dates across Canada.

Later in the Fall, the band will play Palais Montcalm in Quebec City (November 21 and 22) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Deep Purple’s Concerto for Group & Orchestra with Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) and L’Orchestre Symphonique de Québec under the direction of Paul Mann.

Jeff Chaz - No Paint 2019

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Tracklist:

01. Turn Back the Hands of Time
02. The Stars Are Out
03. We Ain't Shackin' No More
04. You Gotta Show Me
05. Lowdown, Dirty Blues
06. Life is Like Coffee
07. Blues Buffet
08. Little Sips
09. She's the Sweetest Thing
10. Deet, Deet, Deet

Jeff Chaz Blues of New Orleans, Louisiana, is an internationally renowned blues guitarist. His music is on many radio stations and blues radio programs abroad and on all 60,000 TouchTunes jukeboxes in North America. English journalist and music critic Paul Bradbeer, said "Jeff Chaz could well be the missing link between BB King, Roy Buchanan, Albert King, and Frank Zappa."
Little Milton was a big influence on Jeff with his vocal style and playing and ,always ready to give Jeff personal advice on the music business,oftentimes from his tour bus on the phone.Little Milton was a big influence on Jeff with his vocal style and playing and ,always ready to give Jeff personal advice on the music business,oftentimes from his tour bus on the phone.

Dudley Taft-Simple Life 2019

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Tracklist:
1. Give Me A Song (4:53)
2. Simple Life (4:23)
3. I Can't Live Without You (4:31)
4. In Your Way (2:54)
5. Don't Let Them Get Away (2:51)
6. Death By Bliss (3:35)
7. Bombs Away (3:40)
8. If Heartaches Were Nickels (6:24)
9. Never Fade (3:06)
10. Pouring Down (3:44)
11. Shine (3:55)
12. Back To You (3:34)

Dudley Taft – Simple Life
Format: CD
Label: American Blues Artist Group
Releasedatum: 6 september 2019

Cincinnati based guitarist Dudley Taft shows his softer side on his seventh album, “Simple Life,” revealing the depth of his influences from classic pop to blues to progressive rock. But, make no mistake, he retains that jagged edge guitar slinger profile that has brought him international acclaim. The collection of eleven original tracks of driving rock anthems & soaring ballads and an inspired rendition of a blues classic were recorded at the home studio he bought from Peter Frampton, saving it from demolition six years ago.

The sessions feature members of Taft’s touring band and special guest, Walfredo Reyes Jr., who lays down drums and percussion on seven tracks.
The album opens with a thundering jungle drum beat from Chris Ellison, who runs his own school “Now Drum” in Cincinnati, on an anthem about the joy in finding true love ‘Give Me A Song.’ Taft then lays out his full rock ‘n’ roll manifesto and pursuit of the finer things on the riff-based title track ‘Simple Life.’ The tune glides along smoothly until Taft tosses in a 2112 inspired bridge and one of his hot guitar solos. He further declares the depths of his devotion on the hard-swinging blues ‘I Can’t Live Without You’ that features soaring duel lead guitar.
The gritty rocker, ‘In Your Way,’ is a cutting rebuke of a troublesome bully, and the lesson in self-reliance ‘Don’t Let Them Get Away,’ uses a mixture of sweet and swaggering grooves to prove its point. The years Taft spent on the Seattle scene are easily heard on the loping grunge ballad ‘Death By Bliss,’ and the heavy funk of ‘Bombs Away,’ has some indelible Hendrix influences.
Taft previously released his version of the Warren Hayes composition ‘If Heartaches Were Nickels’ on his 2016 album “Live In Europe,” and is joined once again by acclaimed bass man and “All Blues” radio host John Kessler on the more refined studio version, that finds him holding back the tempo and digging deeper into the melodic and emotional strains of the deep slow blues.
Touches of Lennon and McCartney and pure Gospel fire can be felt on the inspirational ‘Never Fade.’ The big rock sound of ‘Pouring Down’ was surely gleaned from his years writing and touring with the upstart bands Sweet Water and Second Coming, and his ode to the love of his life, ‘Shine,’ is a mixture of hot licks and soulful harmony. Taft declares he has “Found My Queen,” on ‘Back To You,’ another riff rocker from his hip pocket that closes out the album he dedicates to his wife Michelle, who graces the album art alongside her guitar-slinging man.
“Simple Life” is a strong statement of conviction from a road-tested singer songwriter, who has earned the right to share his truth on his own terms.

The Brand New Heavies - TBNH 2019

Tracklist:

1. Beautiful (02:56)
2. Stupid Love (04:12)
3. Just Believe In You (05:05)
4. Getaway (03:30)
5. Heat (03:50)
6. The Funk Is Back (03:29)
7. Together (04:30)
8. These Walls (04:05)
9. It's My Destiny (04:08)
10. Wired Up (03:32)
11. Dance It Out (03:38)
12. Little Dancer (03:39)
13. Dontcha Wanna (04:46)
14. Get On The Right Side (03:59)



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Simon Bartholomew & Andrew Levy are the original members of TBNH
They are the main songwriters and Producers of the 16 top 40 hits singles and have sold over 2.5 million records.

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Pioneers of the London Acid Jazz scene, The Brand New Heavies translated their love for the funk grooves of the 1970s into a sophisticated sound that carried the torch for classic soul in an era dominated by Hip-Hop. Formed in 1985 by drummer/keyboardist Jan Kincaid, guitarist Simon Bartholomew, and bassist/keyboardist Andrew Levy - longtime school friends from the London suburb of Ealing - The Brand New Heavies were originally an instrumental unit inspired by the James Brown and Meters records its members heard while clubbing the rare groove scene in vogue at the moment. The trio soon began recording their own music, gaining enormous exposure when their demo tracks were spun at the influential Cat in the Hat Club.

Eventually adding a brass section, the Brand New Heavies built a cult following throughout the London club circuit, surviving the shift that saw the rare groove scene fade in the wake of acid house. After an earlier recording deal with Cooltempo yielded the single "Got to Give," the Heavies -- now including vocalist Jay Ella Ruth -- signed with the fledgling indie label Acid Jazz; recorded on a budget of just 8,000 pounds, the group's self-titled LP appeared in 1990 to strong critical acclaim, resulting in a licensing deal with the American company Delicious Vinyl. With Ruth now out of the band, Delicious Vinyl hand-picked N'dea Davenport as her successor, insisting the Heavies re-record tracks from their debut for their first U.S. effort, also an eponymous release that appeared in 1992.

After scoring at home with "Dream Come True" and "Stay This Way," the single "Never Stop" soon landed on the American R&B charts, with the Heavies the first British group to accomplish such a feat with a debut single since Soul II Soul several years earlier; a subsequent New York performance augmented by rappers Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest) and MC Serch (3rd Bass) inspired the group to begin absorbing Hip-Hop, and that summer they cut "Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol. 1", an album including guest appearances by rappers including Main Source, Gang Starr, Grand Puba, and the Pharcyde. 1994's Brother Sister, which went platinum in Britain, was Davenport's last recording with the Heavies before beginning a solo career; she was replaced by singer Siedah Garrett in time for 1997's Shelter. Two years later, the group reappeared with a British best-of album entitled Trunk Funk: The Best of the Brand New Heavies; the title was recycled the following year for an American compilation, Trunk Funk Classics: 1991-2000, which featured a new song recorded with Davenport. In early 2006 it was announced that Davenport would be reuniting with the group. A new album, Get Used to It, was released later that year and was followed by a tour of the U.K. and Europe. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide