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The Moochers : Play The Game
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Original, modern blues with deep roots, hot playing and a true heart.
Genre: Blues: Electric Blues
Release Date: 2005
Play The Game
The Moochers
Record Label: Klate
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Listen To Me 3:35 + MP3 $0.99
2. House of Cards 3:32 + MP3 $0.99
3. Play The Game 4:30 + MP3 $0.99
4. Goin' Away 3:19 + MP3 $0.99
5. Hide And Seek 4:22 + MP3 $0.99
6. Lubrication 2:36 + MP3 $0.99
7. Smiling Face 2:38 + MP3 $0.99
8. Look Down 4:57 + MP3 $0.99
9. Waiting 4:04 + MP3 $0.99
10. Never Get Far 3:53 + MP3 $0.99
11. Technology 3:20 + MP3 $0.99
12. Take It Easy 4:16 + MP3 $0.99
13. Rockin' On 2:40 + MP3 $0.99
14. 40tude 4:28 + MP3 $0.99
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Album Notes

The Moochers started up in 1994 when the songwriting team of Mat Walklate (vocal, harp) and Andy Pyatt (guitar) met up in Manchester UK. The new CD Play The Game is our third album and the first to contain all our own material.
Our previous albums have received excellent reviews all over the world and the band has tourd extensively in the UK, Ireland and Europe.
We think that Play The Game is the best thing we've ever done and so, it seems do the people we've sent it to so far! The album came out in October 2005 and already it's had loads of airplay and positive reviews.
Andy is a truly great guitar player-inventive, soulful, intelligent and true to the blues. Together with Mat's rich voice, expressive harp and superb lyrics The Moochers have created fourteen brand new songs that carry the true spirit of the blues forward into the 21st century!
There's a full range of different feels and grooves on the album, a full range of emotions expressed and an irresistible beat provided by Bo Kirton on bass and Chris Wharton on drums.
If you like original, contemporary blues with a firm grounding in the blues tradition and real heart and soul then The Moochers are a band you need to hear!

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REVIEWS

"Exciting powerful rhythm"
author: Vicente Zumel
                            
Exciting powerful rhythm combining, shuffles, a little bit of funk and an amazing gift, is what you will find on this excellent 'Play The Game' CD. Mat does an electrifying overpowering work with "The Moochers", displaying all his singing and harp playing abilities.
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"..a good album with its own personality"
author: Rune Endal
                            
Translated from Norwegian. They solely do their own material, which is of a good standard. On "Never Get far" they sound like Dire Straits on a good day and they also have a good few other tunes on this album which has an "English sound". This is a good album with its own personality.
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"Andy Pyatt's guitar playing is of the highest standard"
author: Blues In Britain
                            
Andy Pyatt's guitar playing is of the highest standard and nowhere better than on the title cut "Play The Game". The gently simple "Smiling Face" shows a different side to Mat's vocal ability. It's easy to overlook Mat's versatility on the harmonica that gets partly obscured by the standard of the song writing. His songs have something to say, yet not at the expense of having a good time and enjoying the high musical standard and inter-play of a tight, (and often augmented) quartet.
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"good singing, big,hot sound,"
author: Soulbag
                            
(Translated from French) Good singing, big, hot sound, straightforward rhythm, this quartet assumes modernity and does not believe in changing their personality in sacrifice to "academic" exercises. The balance is strong, from start to finish, the themes are interesting.
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