Album Notes

Breaking Out, is the debut album from UK-based blues-rockers Storm Warning, released in 2006. The band has been touring the UK throughout 2005 and during 2006, with highly acclaimed blues club and festival appearances.

Produced by the band and Martin Atkinson at his M.A.R.S. studio, the album features seven original tracks and two covers of modern blues standards. It received excellent reviews in Blues In Britain (10 out of 10 rating) and Blues Matters! magazines and earned the critical seal of approval from Paul Jones, when he played the track ‘Bullets’ on his BBC Radio 2 show. The band is scheduled to record a live session for the show to be broadcast in June 2006.

Though generally classified within the blues-rock genre, Storm Warning is a band of five diverse influences that happens to make distinctive, exciting contemporary blues music. The blues are the heart of the sound, but the blues is a form that changes its shape and character to suit whoever is playing it. Storm Warning has a unique sound, mixing blues and rock with a little jazz and one that seems to have a wide appeal. The blues harmonica of Son Maxwell shares the lead with the jazz and rock-influenced guitar of Bob Moore, with the classic Hammond and piano sounds of Ian Salisbury adding an additional blues-based dimension.

Drummer Roger Willis, formerly with Capability Brown, and bassist Derek White complete the line-up, forming what The Blues Band bass man Gary Fletcher described as “an ace rhythm section.”

Among the original compositions are an instrumental, ‘Upton Strut’, and six songs featuring lyrics by Son Maxwell. The covers are a funky version of Peter Green’s ‘Long Grey Mare’ and Keb Mo’s ‘Dangerous Mood’, both popular features of the band’s live set.

Storm Warning are gaining much critical acclaim with their debut cd ‘Breaking Out’ and their powerful live and dynamic show. The band look set to a great rise in popularity during 2006 as more and more people world wide, discover the band and their music.