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Acoustic blues-based guitar music that respects the past while looking towards the future.
Genre:
Blues: Acoustic Blues
Release Date:
2003
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Acousticland Lady
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Record Label: WMF Records
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Many artists make good and often killer blues records, either choosing to record in a modern electric style or in a traditional acoustic style. I wanted to record a blues-based album utilizing acoustic instruments played both traditionally and with an electric intensity. The acoustic guitar has for centuries alluded to the ideal woman; resplendent with soft shoulders, sensual curves, and when she's handled properly, the most glorious sounds emanate. This is the Acousticland Lady.
Along with my bandmates, the friendly and funky Steve Calabria on bass, and the sturdy and steady Scott Turner on drums and percussion, I wanted my friend and colossal talent Michael Hill, to guest with us on this project. Michael is one of the most refreshing bluesmen working today, and he plays with such originality and conviction that I knew I wanted to record with him someday.
We believe that it's necessary to simultaneously respect the past while looking towards the future when making music. We hope you enjoy this album. We surely enjoyed making it. Thanks for looking and listening!
Colin John (2003)
Hear the believers:
"Two great guitarists, one fantastic album"
Paul Jones, BBC Radio, U.K.
"Passionate, uplifting, superb, and awe-inspiring"
Ashwyn Smith, Phoenix FM, Essex U.K.
"Ferociously entertaining"
Mojo Magazine, London U.K.
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www.colinjohnband.com
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www.michaelhillsbluesmob.com
Thanks and Peace, Love and Bluespower!
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Interesting blend of traditional Blues and contemporary lyrics
author: Greg Taylor, UK
I liked the blend of traditional acoustic Blues playing and comtemporary themes and lyrics. The material could equally have justified a more electric treatment, but it works all the better for not going down that road. The opening number sets the standard with a humourous take on the serious modern day problem of living beyond ones means. "Whipping Post" looks at the subject from the other side in a more traditional vein.
Brilliant album.
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author: Steve Byrne
The Colin John Band
Acousticland Lady (WMF)
BY STEVE BYRNE:
The Colin John Band certainly didn't need to recruit a heavy hitter like Michael Hill to make a terrific blues album. The Akron trio proved it could do it alone with 2002's Groove Yard Devils, with John's ferocious guitar wrangling and soulful vocals leading the way. But who can complain? Hill, a New Yorker who still fronts Michael Hill's Blues Mob, collaborated with John last year at a festival in France. The pair wondered if they would be as simpatico on record as they were informally. Yes, indeed.
Acousticland Lady, as the title would lead you to suspect, is an exercise in country blues. Yet the approach John and Hill took to the disc's five original compositions and covers like Sonny Boy Williamson's "Eyesight to the Blind" and Robert Johnson's "32-20 Blues" produced a sound heavy enough to keep lovers of urban blues happy too. Two superb axmen are better than one.
clevescene.com | originally published: May 5, 2004
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THIS GUYS...WOW
author: JORGE MARTINS
A SUPER BLUES ACCOUSTIC CD WITH TWO MASTERS IN GUITAR,NO NEED MORE INTRUDUCTION...JUST LISTEN
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author: Your Night Mare rides again
hmmmmm ... nice snapper pal ... mother the bomb has already dropped ...
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