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  • BLACK CAT BONES were a blues-prog rock group from London founded in the late '60s by Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke (drums) both who would leave after recording this album and form the band “Free”. BLACK CAT BONES also had the talents of Rod Price (lead guitar) who also would later go on to play in Foghat. “Barbed Wire Sandwich” was released originally on Decca’s progressive label NOVA and represents a wonderfully blues driven progressive rock album. Considering there are 3 guitarists on the album this recording is bubbling over with 6 stringed contributions. Vocals are strong with Rod Price’s convincing deep accents and warm guttural soul. The album is actually very reminiscent of CREAM's "Disraeli Gears" with driving guitar bass and drum interplay and that certain rawness. Overall album is superbly crafted with some great songs and instrumentation. This band is the pre-Leaf Hound. A blues-rock band with progressive elements. In the first line-up was Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke before they made Free, but they don’t play on the album. Great solos from Rod Price (later Savoy Brown), but the vocalist is fantastic too (Brian Short). The second title is a great slow blues, and there’s two ballads: "Feelin’ Good", "Four Women", but maybe the best song is the last Good Lookin’ Woman. Unfortunately they split after this album. The Brooks brothers found Leaf Hound with the vocalist of Brunning Sunflower Blues Band, Peter French (later Atomic Rooster).
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  • North Mississippi All-Stars -LIVE-


    REVIEW ALLMUSIC (by Steve Leggett)
    The North Mississippi Allstars have stripped things down a bit for Hernando, their fifth studio album and the first for the group's recently launched label Songs of the South, merging their usual Southern folk blues sound with elements of metal and even a touch of swing, all of it done with the lean efficiency of a maturing power trio. Led by Luther Dickinson's soaring slide guitar work and anchored by a thundering rhythm section of brother Cody Dickinson on drums and Chris Chew on bass, NMA on Hernando are no less than an obvious continuation of the late-'60s blues-rock tradition of Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, with a little bit of AC/DC strut thrown in, and while the result isn't perhaps their best album, it isn't far off the mark, either. Recorded and produced by the legendary Jim Dickinson (father of Luther and Cody) at his Zebra Ranch Studio in Coldwater, MS, just a stone's throw up Highway 51 from the band's hometown of Hernando (hence the title), the sound is crisp and thundering, but still retains the ragged looseness that is a NMA trademark and is also one of its biggest strengths. This is blues-rock done Mississippi style, and if NMA swaps out a little of its hometown R.L. Burnside/Otha Turner leanings for the Led Zeppelin side of the equation, it isn't a drastic shift, and songs like "Keep the Devil Down" and "Eaglebird" (which features Cody Dickinson on electric washboard of all things and carries a co-writing credit for Kid Rock's bass player Aaron Julison) would fit seamlessly into any of NMA's live sets from the past ten years. Other highlights include the energetic skip-a-long "Mizzip," "Come Go with Me" (with a guest vocal from James Mathus), and a startling version of Champion Jack Dupree's "I'd Love to Be a Hippie" (sung by bassist Chew and featuring piano from East Memphis Slim) that is easily the most striking track on Hernando. Cut after cut veers off in interesting ways, and Luther Dickinson's guitar leads are always dangerously reckless and thrilling, echoing early Hendrix at times. The only thing missing on Hernando is that North Mississippi fife and drum tradition that NMA have so wonderfully updated for the rock era on past albums. It's understandable that the band might want to move on from that approach a little (and truthfully, it stills hovers here intangibly in the background), but they have always done it so well that Hernando seems strangely incomplete and unfinished without it.
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  • http://www.little-axe.com
    http://www.myspace.com/littleaxesound



    "Le traitement que Little Axe inflige au blues procède toujours de la même démarche. Toutes ces combinaisons musicales que j'ai pu faire tout au long de ces années, j'essaye de les incorporer, mais en leur donnant une importance variable. Chaque disque met en exergue un genre particulier. Ici, c'est le gospel blues alors que, par exemple, le premier album était plus axé dub blues et le second davantage soul blues...", explique Skip.
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    Little Axe is the stage name of Skip McDonald (born Bernard Alexander, 1949, Dayton, Ohio) an American blues musician. McDonald played jazz, doo-wop, and gospel when young, and moved to New York as a teenager with his band of friends, called The Entertainers.

    Axe joined the group Wood Brass & Steel in 1973 with bassist Doug Wimbish and drummer Harold Sargent; the group recorded two albums before their 1979 breakup . Axe then became one of the members of the house band for Sugarhill Records and appeared as guitarist on many early rap albums, including The Message by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five.

    After leaving Sugarhill, McDonald, Wimbish, and drummer Keith LeBlanc began working with Adrian Sherwood, and eventually formed the trio into the group Tackhead (fronted by Gary Clail and, later, Bernard Fowler).

    In the 1990s McDonald took the name Little Axe and began recording blues albums, continuing to appear as a guest act on other artists' albums as well. His most recent albums have been released on Real World Records.Alan Glen is featured on harmonica on the albums.

    In 2009 collaborated with Mali musician Daby Toure to produce a record Call My Name

     

    Discographie :

    • The Wolf that House Built (Okeh/Epic, 1994)
    • Slow Fuse (Wired Records, 1996) 
    • Hard Grind (Fat Possum, 2002)
    • Champagne & Grits (Real World, 2004)
    • Stone Cold Ohio (Real World, 2006)

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  • http://theblackkeys.com/




    Black Keys - Rubber factory

    The Black Keys est un groupe de blues rock américain originaire d'Akron dans l'état de l'Ohio. Le groupe est composé de deux membres, le chanteur et guitariste Dan Auerbach et le batteur Patrick Carney.

    Les Black Keys sont souvent comparés avec le groupe The White Stripes parce que tous deux sont des duos influencés par le blues rock ayant émergés à quelques mois d'intervalle. Pourtant, le son des Black Keys est beaucoup plus enraciné dans le blues traditionnel et moins pop rock que celui des White Stripes.

    Le groupe a sorti son premier album The Big Come Up en 2002 sur le label indépendant Alive Records, label spécialisé en musique underground, fondé par le français Patrick Boissel. En 2003, ils rejoignent le label de blues Fat Possum Records basé dans l'état du Mississippi et rencontrent le succès mondial avec l'album Thickfreakness.

    The Black Keys rendent un hommage appuyé au défunt guitariste Junior Kimbrough qu'ils considèrent comme leur principale source d'inspiration. Ils ont d'ailleurs réarrangé nombre de ses morceaux, Do the rump sur The Big come up ou encore Everywhere I go sur Thickfreakness. En 2006, ils lui ont même consacré un mini album, Chulahoma, comprenant 6 reprises de haut vol du légendaire guitariste de blues et y apportant leur touche personnelle.


    Discographie

    • The Big Come Up - CD/LP (2002) Alive Records
    • Thickfreakness - CD/LP (2003) Fat Possum Records
    • Rubber Factory - CD/LP (2004) Fat Possum Records
    • Chulahoma, The Songs Of Junior Kimbrough - CD/EP (2004) Fat Possum Records
    • The Magic Potion - CD/LP (2006) Nonesuch Records
    • Attack & Release - CD/LP (2008) Nonesuch Records

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