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Amberjack Rice : New Roots
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American roots music for people, not for a market.
Genre: Blues: Rockin' Blues
Release Date: 2003
New Roots
Amberjack Rice
Record Label: ARR
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Little Northeast 1:28 $0.99
What I Deserve 2:47 $0.99
Big Fire Breathing Horse 2:33 $0.99
Mexico Way 1:41 $0.99
Slow Children at Play 3:37 $0.99
I Guess That Your Still Not 2:13 $0.99
I'm Sorry Lord 2:03 $0.99
99 Botles of Beer 1:39 $0.99
The Other Side of the Bottle 4:00 $0.99
This Should be the Past 3:00 $0.99
I Will Wait for You 3:09 $0.99
Wanted Man 1:48 $0.99
What Do You Need 2:40 $0.99
People Asking 1:20 $0.99
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Album Notes

Amberjack Rice is from Knoxville TN. He originally learned to play music in a splo house(an illegal bar with a still in the basement) spending many weekends playing till the sun came up or the cops came, whatever happened first.
After a few years he moved on to the local clubs, playing many nights in bars he was to young to drink in. In 1989 he started fronting a band (The Blues Commandeers) and soon began playing with Scott Miller (V-Roys, Sugar Hill Records). Playing with Scott influenced Rice to start writing his own songs and to move to Austin Texas.
After a couple of years in Austin, he started playing publicly as a solo act, which soon became a band, a really great band that makes people dance and have a hell of a good time.
New Roots is his fifth recording for ARR (Amberjack Rice Records), it has gotten loads of European radio play and many great reviews.
There is no sign of letting up. With two new records ready to release and many tours upcoming.

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REVIEWS

about amberjack rice
author: tiburce from les landes
oui, je mets 4 étoiles, car je reconnais la TRES grande qualité de cet artiste, MAIS, il faut être un TRES GRAND amateur de country pour apprécier. Cela dit: c'est du bon, mais ne vous trompez pas, c'est"campagne"... Adishatz.
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He's country with a blues voice
author: Score! Music Magazine
His voice is rough-hewn and spouts a vocal styling that’s the product of a thousand gigs in a hundred smoky bars, with time in between spent singing on the porch, watching the sun set over mosquito-infested swamps. He’s country with a blues voice. He’s boogie-woogie with a mandolin on the side. “The Other Side of the Bottle” is a mournful paean to alcohol, and “Mexico Way” is an all-left-channel track with just Rice and a guitar. “This Should Be the Past” could be a recently unearthed Bob Wills song. Rice has a gift for instrumentation; there’s little if any overplaying on any of these tracks. This is what country music sounds like when it’s made for the love of the song.
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