Double Barrel Blues Band
"Bad, Bad Feeling"
Blues Lion Records
BY PETER "BLEWZZMAN" LAURO, © June 2009
The Double Barrel Blues Band bills themselves as an intense, exciting, rocking blues band that plays "In Your Face Blues". If that's true, then I'm sure to have a good, good feeling about "Bad, Bad Feeling" - the second release from this Syracuse, NY based band.
Members of Double Barrel include: Mark Cloutier on Lead Guitar & Vocals, John Hart on Vocals & Slide Guitar, Bill Satterly on Bass, and Garnett Grimm on Drums. The disc contains ten tracks of which six are band originals.
Everyone's partying hard on the opening track, that ya gotta wonder if the guys aren't just singing about it but sucking on some of that "Wine, Wine, Wine", as well. This is an all out jam on which the band immediately lives up to their self description. This one rocks! It's highlighted by intense rhythm from Bill and Garnett and lots of smokin' guitar leads by Mark. Real good stuff.
Things slow down a bit on the title track, an original called "Bad, Bad, Feeling". This is a real blues burner that has everyone in a mellow groove behind lots of smoking blues guitar highlights from Mark.
Somewhere between the opening track and here, the guys must have switched over to the hard stuff, because they now have the "Whiskey Blues". It's stuff like this that gives the Double Barrel Blues Band the right to say they're blues is in your face. It doesn't get any more straight up than this. John's vocals and Mark's guitar work on this track are what the blues is all about. Discs best, right here.
The name of this track - "B Flat Bone Boogie" - pretty much describes it. It's a smokin' instrumental that will have you boogieing down to your bones. If you can sit still through this one, then you gotta be in a body cast.
"Tin Pan Alley" is another slow and low down blues burner.....the kind of stuff I can listen to all night long. Although he's pretty hot on all tracks, this one may feature some of Mark's best guitar work. In addition to getting down in the alley on vocals, this one has John sounding very impressive on slide guitar as well.
Other tracks on "Bad, Bad Feeling" include: "Matchbox", "Voodoo Thing", "Restless One", "If You Find I'm Gone" and "Flipping And Flapping".
This is quite an impressive effort by the Double Barrel Blues Band, and I've got to admit that they've certainly lived up to their reputation. "Bad, Bad Feeling" was exciting, rocking and in your face kinda blues. Great work guys!
Check the guys out by going to www.doublebarrelbluesband.com. Feel free to tell them you stopped by to pick up a copy of their "Blewzz Approved" CD.
Peter "Blewzzman" Lauro
Blues editor @ www.Mary4Music.com
WE HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR A 2009 SAMMY AWARD FOR BEST BLUES RECORDING---"BAD BAD FEELING"
Syracuse New Times Syracuse Area Music Awards Nominees for 2009
Best Country: Loren Barrigar (Dance With Me); The Fulton Chain Gang (Live At MVCC).
Best Americana: The Fabulous Ripcords; Kim Simmonds (Out of the Blue); Joanne Shenandoah and Michael Bucher (Bitter Tears, Sacred Ground); Folkstrings (Additions); Mark Zane (American Hunger).
Best Jazz: Evan Knight (Reminisce); Julie Falatico (Taking a Chance On Love), Jane Murlin (My Favorites).
Best Recording, Other Styles: Kevin Dorsey (Fore!); Fritz’s Poker Band (Reflections); Jamie Notarthomas (The Crow Convention); The Medicine Show (Kh’Mi); Bob Piorun (It’s Christmas).
Best Hip-Hop/Rap: Raywellz (Everything’s Good); The Kid Fresh (Refresh); Wood Fellas (Stereotype); Sam Gotti (I’m a Rap Star).
Best Rhythm’n’Blues: The J Project Band (Live).
Editor’s note: As the only qualifying candidate this year, this album will automatically win the award. However, it was still judged in accordance to the Sammys’ official judging policies.
Best Pop: Christopher Ames (Everyday With You); Jason Bean (What It Seems); Jackson’s Kid Summer (Sierra Sunshine); various artists (Big Mike’s Christmastime in Syracuse); Willowmakers (White Picket Fence).
Best Blues: Double Barrel Blues Band (Bad Bad Feeling); The Jam Bones (New Recipe); Carolyn Kelly (Slow Cooking on Hot); Jimmy Wolf (I’ve Been Driftin’).
Best Alternative/Metal: The Action! (Exploding Radio); Control Escape (Generation of Waste); From Ruins; Titanium Black (Bleed for You); Wishpool (Resurrected).
Best Rock: Dead Rose (No Tomorrow); NeverSeen (Almost is Never Ever); Michael Ryan (Ima-Live); Silent Fury (Sunday Stilettos); Jon Ellis Stevens (KoKoMo).
big big thanx to mark bialczak!!!!!!!!!!!
Song clips, CD reviews for Double Barrel Blues Band, JC Carroll, The Boomerangs
Posted by Mark Bialczak January 25, 2009 6:26AM
Categories: CD review, Song clip
I hope you get the chance to read my reviews of the new CDs from the Double Barrel Blues Band, JC Carroll and The Boomerangs in the Stars section of today's Post-Standard.
Here's my Post-Standard review of The Double Barrel Blues Band's "Bad Bad Feeling."
Listen to "Bad Bad Feeling" and you'll get the urge to sit in a bar and sweat with the Double Barrel Blues Band.
The Syracuse foursome lays down the sound with an obvious love for and equally apparent talent for blues the way it oughta be.
Guitarist Mark Cloutier can play it fast and hot or slow and tense.
Singer John Hart can add the grit or spread the honey.
Bassist Bill Satterly and drummer Garnett Grimm Sr. keep it real.
Satterly wrote the title cut, and Cloutier's guitar work will send shivers down your spine as Hart sings, "Sometimes it feels like a black cat crossed my path. Sometimes it feels like I got a target on my back."
Yet they also know that the blues can celebrate good times, too. In Cloutier's original "Flipping and Flapping," they see what can come from romancing their high-heeled baby. "I'm gonna buy you a shoe store, so you don't have to wear old shoes no more," Hart sings.
The well-picked covers start with a tasty "Wine Wine Wine" and finish with an anguished "Tin Pan Alley." "All the people down there, well they're living for the whiskey, wine and gin," Hart sings. Hoist one for the blues.
Catch a show: Double Barrel Blues Band plays at 9:30 p.m. Friday at Shifty's, 1401 Burnet Ave., Syracuse, and 9 p.m. Feb. 21 at Bear Bones BBQ, 83 Wall St., Auburn.
On the Internet: www.doublebarrelbluesband.com. The CD is available at cdbaby.com/cd/dbbluesband.
Here's my Post-Standard review of JC Carroll's "New English Blues."
British bluesman JC Carroll became Mark Cloutier's friend over the Internet. Carroll enlisted the man from East Syracuse to lay computer tracks for "New English Blues."
It's a good collection to listen to with your headphones as Carroll bares his vocal soul.
He delivers the title cut in four parts. When that's done, you know it's been a long road for the guy who first found U.K. fame decades ago. And you also are certain that he's enjoyed the journey.
Cloutier's guitar lines energize parts I, II and IV of the title song, and add zing to "I Ain't Gon be Yo B---- No More."
Carroll's voice of experience can take on Stones-like swagger, but he's also part soul man. When he sings the spare and pretty ballad "I Love My English Girls," you know he means it.
On the Internet: www.jccarrol.com.
notes from our band web site:: www.doublebarrelbluesband.com
Troy-Kansas City Online Radio!
Kansas City Jan 13, 2009 @ 1:08 AM
Mark, what can I say...you guys kick ass! Great Great Music!
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hallahanjb@verizon.net (Jeff)
HBG. Pa. Jan 11, 2009 @ 10:01 PM
Mark, don't know how I found this sight but it is awesome to see you're doing so well. All the best to you. It's been a long time, do you even remeber me now that you are such a big deal. Take care
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lenord dogg
paradise Jan 03, 2009 @ 4:30 PM
just keep on keepin' on............
great music
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Beamer
Los Angeles Dec 31, 2008 @ 7:45 PM
Double Barrel Blues Band is the freakin best there is. They rock, they slide, they slow it down, they just "Get It!" I'll see you boys soon and we shall rock it up a bit...All the best in 09...Steve
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Peter C (Global Trancemission)
United Kingdom Dec 12, 2008 @ 3:25 PM
Hey Mark
Good looking site ....nice and clearly laid out I like it.
Great to hear your Strat as soon as I reached the home page....now that made me feel real at home
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Robert Pugh
Jordan NY Dec 02, 2008 @ 8:23 AM
Hey Mark,
We saw Buddy Guy last week ... WOW ... what a show! I guess we're tied for seeing Buddy, this time was my third.
Can't wait 'till January 30th @ Shifty's. I'll be there with bells on. By the way, I just picked up a Leslie ... talk about
growl!
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Pinedog
western new york Nov 27, 2008 @ 9:59 AM
Hi Mark...Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for stoppin' by my SC page and leaving the kind words on my blues tune! Your new website is great....love how the music starts fast and plays while the site is loading. You guys can really rip it up....someday i'll get to one of your shows...i'm not ALL that far away. In the meantime, keep playin' stay healthy, and stay in touch man..
your friend and fan....Pine
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Terrance
Detroit Nov 21, 2008 @ 6:01 PM
Hello! Fun sounding music!
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Jim's Artificial Earth
You know Nov 16, 2008 @ 10:25 AM
Wine, wine, wine.... makes me feel fine, and the upbeat vibes from DBBB is a force to be reckoned with!!!!
Keep it real, Mark and Co.!!
Peace,
Jim
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Stan Bolton
Southern California Nov 16, 2008 @ 9:24 AM
Hey Mark wavin a handcool website Amigo
Stan
www.tomandstan.com
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Lord Bugs
France Nov 14, 2008 @ 2:26 AM
You are GREAT !!!!!
How can I have doubted of it ????
Super show & sound !!!!
Michel.
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JP
Tuwaitha, Iraq Nov 11, 2008 @ 3:10 PM
Great webpage
even better music!
You guys sound better every time I hear you.
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Nigel
England Nov 09, 2008 @ 11:55 AM
Sounding AWESOME guys!!!
Won't be long now,it will happen
Keep the faith guys
Nigel.
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stu
ireland Nov 07, 2008 @ 2:06 PM
hi...
road apples
Calgary Oct 27, 2008 @ 8:07 AM
if you find I'm gone = brilliant, you guys! A great feel - non-standard Blues with grit and howl. LOve it!
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Jim Vark
West By Golly Virginia Oct 26, 2008 @ 6:37 PM
"If you find Im gone": this is some cool stuff. Great groove, solid vocals and a wailing guitar--a man can't ask for more than that! DBBB really delivers the real deal here!
Peace,
Jim
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Cranky Pants
Illinois Oct 13, 2008 @ 7:28 AM
i didn't know you had this. what other secrets are you keeping from me? i'm going to snoop around and take a look. thanks for the link.
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Dazed
Mixposure.com Oct 11, 2008 @ 3:10 PM
Mark the page looks great. Thanks for your support of Mixposure and I look forward to hearing your Radio
Interview with Mike. Please let us know when he new cd is out and I will do what I can to help support it.
Dazed
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margot
switzerland Oct 11, 2008 @ 9:38 AM
Hiya mark...That`s some very cool lightenin flashes you have here...ehehee...:-)
Peace and love Mags :-)
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Bri-an
Buckhorn, ONT. Canada Oct 11, 2008 @ 5:07 AM
Hey Boyz!!!
Glad to see & hear things are doing well!! (love the site!) Hope you cats can still make it up to Banana Studio to do some ham-bonin one day!The door is always open for my favorite blues band!
See you guys @ Alexadria Bay next season!!
bri-an & Frannie.
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Gottsch
fayetteville Oct 07, 2008 @ 5:35 PM
Gottschalk124@gmail.com
i'm going to have to go to one of your shows sometime
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Ed
Canada Oct 01, 2008 @ 9:03 AM
True to the style Mark, power and emotion..the band sounds great. Hope you guys keep the fire going for years to come.
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rapster
switzerland by way of california Oct 01, 2008 @ 1:58 AM
mark my brother.. voodoo child incarnate.. sorry if i'm late.. but you know i'm a blues man and one of your biggest personal fans.. what a great looking page.. and i haven't even navigated the links yet! had to stay and dig the music for a bit.. all the best and much success at all your many DBBB gigs.. cheers fellow martial arts axeman.. :-)
Larry T..... www.tlt50.com
Nebraska Sep 30, 2008 @ 6:35 PM
Mark and DBBB.....awesome music...gentleman All the best from WhereWolf Studio....... !!!!
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WildHoneyPie
Pennsylvania Sep 30, 2008 @ 11:37 AM
Hey boys-- the music is impressive! Big "Hi"-- from Reaper and Pie!
Great place to visit.
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margot
Swizerland Sep 30, 2008 @ 11:25 AM
Hiya Guys....Hey, looking good Houston!! Keep em comin..:-)
peace n love Mags :-)
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Yer Ole Buddy Vark
West By Golly Virginia Sep 29, 2008 @ 5:17 PM
Great news coming your way, Mark! I've seen the reviews, and they actually know what they're talking about: DBBB is INCREDIBLE!!!
Peace,
Jim
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GEORGE AND THE DUKES
GREECE Sep 22, 2008 @ 2:51 PM
Great bluesy site!!! You play with feeling and personality, guys!!!
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Official Blues Hall Of Fame ®
San Diego CA Sep 21, 2008 @ 5:47 PM
Very Best Wishes from the whole team!
www.MySpace.com/BluesHallofFame
http://www.blueshalloffame.com/
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mark cloutier
east syracuse Sep 19, 2008 @ 5:22 AM
we have just been added to the lake george blues blast--sunday, oct 5th,1:15pm- 2:15pm-- looking forward to this one
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Allen Finch
Tate Music Group Sep 18, 2008 @ 10:32 AM
You guys sound great. Keep on doing it. Excellent stuff!
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MyStage Blues
mystagemusic.com Sep 16, 2008 @ 10:08 AM
Hey guys! Sweet digs ya got here! Definitely one of the better band sites we've seen!
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mark cloutier
east syracuse Sep 15, 2008 @ 1:58 PM
thanx all for dropping and please sign up for news letter as i will keep you informed of happenings! present and future!
oh,thanx steve for hanging with us at the time warp!! we have some video of the show on our video page!! tin pan alley--i kmow ya like that one! cheers
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Steve Brown
Watertown, NY Sep 15, 2008 @ 1:48 PM
Loved the band in Alex Bay, in Adams Center, and most recently in Watertown. Keep bringing live blues to the North Country (he CD was great, too)!
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Jim R.
West Virginia Sep 14, 2008 @ 7:26 PM
I'm really digging the page here, Mark and Co.! Very well put together, really friendly atmosphere. Looks like you're getting some traffic already, amigo!
Keep it going!
Peace,
Jim
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JC Carroll
England Sep 14, 2008 @ 11:41 AM
That looks great Guys Keep on Rocking!!!!
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Dugan Henhawk
America's Ashtray Sep 12, 2008 @ 3:12 PM
Hey, is this a web site or America's Least Wanted?? Looks more like a police lineup than a blues band! Just keeding, meester. Looks real nice, boys. I'll be stopping by from time to time to keep up on all things Double Barrel-ed. Continued good fortune, fellas.
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Hooker Green
Germany Sep 12, 2008 @ 12:34 PM
GREAT site from a GREAT Blues Band. Congrats and much success for all your projects. I'm a hughe fan of your kind of music.
Erik
Amy
Syracuse Sep 12, 2008 @ 6:27 AM
NICE website!! When are you playing shiftys again or somewhere close by! we wanna see you guys!!!!!!
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DACE
HELL Sep 12, 2008 @ 6:01 AM
NICE GUYS! Looks good! ALL THE BEST TO YAS..
DACE>
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Kerry Martin
waybehind Sep 12, 2008 @ 2:44 AM
Very nice Mark...a great site to showcase your outstanding music guys!! Better keep an eye out for that Dawn lady...could be a stalker ! Jeez, you guys have certainly been busy this summer, that's terrific!
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Nigel Potter
UK Sep 11, 2008 @ 12:43 PM
Looks cool Mark
Sounds cool
Best wishes for the future guys!!
Nigel.
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we played the new york state blues fest summer 2008!
tony dellario writer for blues scource magazine wrote this at last years new york state blues fest:::
Next up came one of the bigger highlights of the Festival for me. The Double Barrel Blues Band took to the Hanover Square Stage and Mark Cloutier (guitar) and the boys tore it up. Opening up with Albert Collin's " Frosty ", it was only uphill from there. These guys have been hard at work on the local scene, and based on the musicianship it would appear they all have been honing their skills! Keep up the great work guys, and thanks for keeping it real!
we are raw high powered blues--turn it up and enjoy!
mark cloutier has 18 years of experience playing blues in central new york..the former guitar man of dirty pool has played many major blues fests in past years-----notably, the new york state blues fest,chenango blues fest,massena springs blues bash,iron block harley davidson 105th anniversary party and blues in the bay-alex bay n.y.,etc.....mark has been recognized in central new york as best guitar player in central new york blues magazine 1997,and also was nominated 3 years for best blues band(dirty pool) by the syracuse sammy award committee..mark also recently had his picture on the front cover of "the vacationer" 1000 island magazine to promote 2008 blues in the bay!!!
john hart has performed throughout europe with various bands and has performed at the n.y.s blues fest,massena springs blues bash, blues in the bay,iron block harley davidson,watertown summer fest,etc...he has a very slick vocal style and performs with such ease and confidence!!his slide playing is top notch and really compliments mark's playing!!
Bill satterly has been playing with mark and garnet for 4 years as well with past experiences with dirty pool and elmo blake..bill really holds it down with that thumping 4 string bass and also sings writes a few tunes of his own as well..bill really understands the blues...he has also performed all the mentioned fests as noted above!!!
Garnett grimm holds it down nicely with 40 years of experience playing across new york and beyond...a great guy with booking experience and many contacts...he has shared the stage with mark and bill for 4 years now playing the same fests mentioned above!garnett is a seasoned pro with years and years of experience in various bands and booking..
DOUBLE BARREL BLUES BAND
DOUBLE WHAMMY BLUES - ROUGH AND TOUGH
Website Myspace VIDEO
Viriele mannen met de gitaar omgord maken sowieso indruk en nog meer als zij hun krachten en talent bundelen Live of op plaat. Wat je op dit Whammy bluesalbum van de New Yorkse Double Barrel Bluesband hoort is zowel ‘rough and tough’ als bij wijlen delicaat. Centraal staat gitarist Mark Cloutier, door jan en alleman plus Pers gelauwerd om zijn magistraal gitaarspel. Drummer Garnet Grimm, met aanstekelijke beat, moet niet onderdoen voor de drie gitaarhelden want ook hij kan bogen op jarenlange drumexpertise in het New Yorks clubcircuit. Marc Cloutier met zijn vaardige gitaarvingers maakte in datzelfde circuit naam als quasi viersterren gitarist toen hij nog in de ‘Dirty Pool’ Band speelde. Zowel solo als nu in de Double Barrel Bluesband valt zijn gitaarsound op. In ‘Tin Pan Alley’ bijvoorbeeld hoor je hoe hij als vanzelfsprekend imponeert zonder het geluid op te drijven. Hetzelfde bij John Hart met zijn ‘slide’ gitaartechniek. De gitaristen zijn dermate bedreven alsof zij ooit in een ‘Masters’ Klas gezeten hebben waar B.B. King, Freddy King, Hubert Sumlin en Jimi Hendrix de professoren waren. Tussen de energieke blues van het enthousiaste soort plaatsen zij enkele rustpunten. Het intimistische instrumentale ‘So Beautiful’ zou je kunnen weerhouden voor de muzikale intrede van een eerste communicantje in de Kerkkapel. Behalve het geleende en bewerkte materiaal, combinatie van traditionele blues, bluesrock en rockabilly van het Wang Dang Doodle genre, brengt de band ook vier originele eigen nummers. Vooral ‘Flipping and Flapping’ is heel geslaagd door de combinatie van het fijner gitaarwerk en de basgitaar van Bill Satterly. En ‘If You Find I’m Gone’ huppelt aanstekelijk ritmisch als een nummer in een jogging pakje. De Double Barrel Blues Band is zo’n band die je Live moet bezig zien, wat gerust een avondlang mag duren. Door hun secure songselectie en de afwisseling in bluestempo’s zullen zij alleszins geen minuut vervelen, zoals ook dit Double Whammy album lekker swingt en ‘bluest’ van begin tot einde.
Marcie
here is the link to roots time magazine!! http://www.rootstime.be/
wim--wave roofer -- a friend from soundclick forum translated the review for us--thanx a ton!!
Potent and viral Men with guitars strapped around their neck are always somehow impressive, even more when they act like a cohence act in a recording enviroment ! What you hear at this album of the DBBB from New York is rough edged and delicate in a row ! The band is build around Mark Cloutier, who's getting wide recoqnition for his fabulous guitar work amongst as well listeners and press ! When he still played in the Dirt Pool Band he made name as a 4 star guitarist ! Drummer Garnet Grimm has a long history in the New York club circuit and is solid as a rock !
In the DBBB Band his guitar is central point ! In "Tin Pan Alley" for example, he knows to impress with a driving dynamic performance without going over the top ! Same with John Harts slide playing, great feel in it ! The guitarists are that good, that it seems if they we're had class with B.B. King, Freddy King, Hubert Sumlin and Jimy Hendrix as teachers cq professors ! On the album It is mostly energetic potent blues, but there are a few laidback ones to !
The intimate instrumental "So Beautifull" would suit a baptization procedure in Church perfectly !
Except for all the borrowed and rearanged stuff, merely a combination of Traditional Blues, Blues Rock and Rockabilly,
which evolves in a typical 'Wang Dang Doodle" sound of the better side, there are 4 own compositions aboard !
Especially "Flippin & Flapping" is most enjoyable through the combination of neat guitars and the supportive bass of "Bolly Satterly" ! And "If You find I'm gone" has a "Lets go Jogging" vibe ! The DBBB is that kind of a band that you have to see on stage ! Satisfaction quaranteed....Same with the album....the cohence in song selection has a nice and neat swing and there's a great bluesy vibe from first to last song !
Marcie
(And Wave Roofer.....haha)
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