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- West of Memphis members love their Chicago blues
- Blues Mama
- VISITING ACT Tinsley Ellis Soul-Drenched Blues-Rock: Journeyman…
West of Memphis members love their Chicago blues
North County Times – Jun 27, 2007
“I busked on the streets of Memphis. I was playing on the street corners trying to make enough money to go hear some real blues on Beale Street. I was just learning the harp and learning the music. “It was while a teenager that Cabbage got turned on to the blues. “Basically I bought a LIttle Walter album when I was 15 16 and heard blues with a feeling and that was it for me!”Walpole had a different introduction to the blues. “I grew up in Hawaii and had grown up playing guitar and playing Hawaiian music.
Blues Mama
East Bay Express – Jun 27, 2007
storyBookmarking –> Not surprisingly Armatrading is happy with the strong showing of her album which coincides with a worldwide tour slated to run through early next year. “With America being the home of the blues I was particularly pleased about it because it’s not necessarily the blues in the way [people] might expect it to be” she explains on the phone from her home in Guildford England. “I’ve always known that I’d be making a blues album. I don’t know if when people hear a title like Into the Blues they think it’s just Joan doing lots of covers. I didn’t kind of plan out what I was going to write but what I did know was that it wouldn’t be twelve-bar blues. The record features blues-flavored cuts stoked by guitar that rings with a Mark Knopfler-like resonance as opposed to Buddy Guy-style histrionics.
VISITING ACT Tinsley Ellis Soul-Drenched Blues-Rock: Journeyman…
Charleston City Paper – Jun 27, 2007
Based out of Atlanta the guitarist and songwriter first made a splash in the South as a solo artist in 1988 with his Alligator Records debut Georgia Blue. He’s toured nonstop ever since averaging over 150 gigs a year across North America and around the world. Playing from an impressive repertoire of classic blues vintage R&B early rock ‘n’ roll and soulful original material Ellis is a treasured blues-rock veteran revered by critics and fans alike. Following the success of his 2005 live collection Live—Highwayman recorded at a packed sweaty club just outside Chicago he returns to Charleston this week with a new self-produced guitar-driven collection titled Moment of Truth. “The album title is sort of an inside joke between me and the people I’ve been making records with over the years” says the guitarist. “In the studio there are all these knobs dials gizmos whammys and gauges you can do to make an album. ne time a guy in my camp said ‘You know all that stuff just delays the moment of truth’ [laughs]… Ellis first gained serious attention with his 1994 album Storm Warning which spotlighted his fiery guitar work. He signed with Telarc Records in 2001 and recorded Hell or High Water. ver the years he’s collaborated with a variety of American roots music acts offering his versatile chops to the likes of The Allman Brothers Robert Cray Koko Taylor Peter Buck of R. longtime Rolling Stones keyboardist sideman Chuck Leavell and Widespread Panic. Recently his own material has taken on a noticeably heavier “rock” vibe.