Album Notes

The long-awaited new Robert Charels blues/R&B album, Three Leg Dogs & Old Skool Cats, is finally here! After working with blues master Duke Robillard on his last release, Metropolitan Blue, Charels chose famed guitarist and Living Blues and Blues Revue cover subject Michael Hill (Have Mercy!, Bloodlines) as his producer. The choice seems very well worth it. Hill composed and performs on the stunning new-age blues romantic ballad "We Hardly Make Love," already drawing pre-release raves. Add to that such funk-filled tunes as the whimsical original "Three Leg Dog" and Sir Mack Rice's "Playin' On Me," the righteous indignation of the passionate, jazzy "Old Skool Cats," and new versions of songs by legends like Mighty Joe Young and Jerry LaCroix, and it's obvious that the soulful and unique vocalist Charels is great form for his third national release. Add to all this a new guitar-oriented sound that features fretboard masters Bob Petrocelli and Anthony Steele as well as contributions from Hill, renowned eight-string bassist Eric Mauriello, and guest drummer Dennis Cotton (Savoy Brown), and it adds up to an album as original as it is daring, as fun as it is serious, and as contemporary as it is traditional. This new effort was recorded and mixed by the Grammy-nominated John Paul Gauthier (Duke Robillard, John Hammond) and mastered by Larry Lachmann (Bo Bice, Santana) of New York's cutting edge Integrated Studios. "A daring album that's equal parts raw funk, traditional blues, guitar rave-up, social commentary, jazz recording, and flat-out rocking jam" --Good Times Magazine © 2007 Bahoomba Music PR