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Watson Johnny Guitar - Essential Works 1953-1962 (2LP) (LP)
€47,00Quick ViewA singer/guitarist known for two essential albums in the funk sphere – Ain’t That a Bitch and A Real Mother For You – Johnny Watson was first of all a highly respected bluesman with close ties to the R&B scene of the Fifties. When Johnny Watson’s grandfather died, he left his grandson a guitar, but Grandma insisted that Johnny shouldn’t ever play “the devil’s music” – the blues – on such a “holy” instrument that had accompanied so many gospels… Johnny at once thought about nothing else. In Los Angeles he would spend the Fifties under the influence of Amos Milburn and Chuck Higgins, with whom he played for a time before creating his own group to trawl through every club in the city. “I was doing things like Jimi Hendrix, fifteen years before [him] playing guitar with my teeth, hanging from the rafters and doing double gigs with Guitar Slim … we used to work together in clubs with 30 foot guitarleads, sit on each others shoulders and walk out into the audience”. Johnny “Guitar” Watson’s shows left an indelible mark. He gave each period in his career a personal stamp that made him an original character: he marked every style he played in, whether it was blues, R&B or funk. The first two styles appear on all four sides of this album, leaving the funk for Ain’t That a Bitch and A Real Mother For You.
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Various - More Boss Black Rockers Vol 2 – Hokus Pokus (+ bonus CD) (LP)
€23,00Quick ViewToka 10 osan sarjaa. ENNAKKOON LOPPUUNMYYTY levy-yhtiöltä. Joten saa tilata heti.
More Boss Black Rockers Vol. 2: Hokus Pokus serves as a reminder, not to mention introduction of the originators of this wonderful genre of music, who had the creativity and vision to bring these wild and dangerous sounds to life, included within the very grooves of this magnificent artefact which, if you are reading this, you are now the proud recipient of. By containing a thoroughly compelling line-up of rock ‘n’ roll, and one that also serves as a history lesson, the final words on this chapter are quite simply, “Hail, hail More Boss Black Rockers Vol. 2: Hokus Pokus!”. Contains a 28 track CD!
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Various - Boss Black Rockers Vol 9 – Crackerjack (LP)
€22,00Quick ViewDear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black rock and roll from the ”Golden Age” of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only ”originated” this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black ”Rhythm and Blues” music was suddenly re-named ”Rock and Roll” to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes on ”Boss Black Rockers” are pretty well-known and some are pretty obscure – even if a lot of those were actually pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this series were actually household names in the ”Rock and Roll World” of the ’50s and early ’60s. I sure hope with this great series to finally set things straight. After the massive success of this series on CD, we finally decided to release ”Boss Black Rockers” on vinyl LPs, cherry-picking the best songs ( a very hard task) from each and every volume. Dig it!
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GA-20 - Live In Loveland (Pink Swirl) (LP)
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As the momentum continues to build for old-school blues rock trio GA-20, the band takes their expanding fanbase by storm with the release it’s first full-length live LP, Live In Loveland!. Featuring 11 rowdy, blistering performances (including five songs from 2022’s Crackdown, three from their 2019 debut Lonely Soul and three previously unrecorded tracks), Live In Loveland! Captures GA-20 feeding off the energy of the wall-to-wall crowd and delivering each song with raw emotion and body-shaking force.
Live In Loveland! #mixes band originals and vintage covers, from early electric blues and honky-tonk country to proto rock ’n’ roll, all performed live with deep feeling and punk energy. The album was recorded direct-to-tape on a vintage Tascam 388 at Plaid Room Records in Loveland, Ohio, home of the famous Colemine record label. Produced by Stubbs and engineered by Colemine owner Terry Cole, the band blasts out of the gate playing Harold Burrages’ I Cry For You, before tearing into Little Walter’s obscure gem My Baby’s Sweeter. The previously unrecorded original Hold It One More Time proves to be an instant classic, sitting seamlessly next to the vintage covers on the album. According to guitarist Matthew Stubbs (whose resume includes playing with blues legends Charlie Musselwhite and James Cotton, among others), ”There is a special type of energy that is exchanged when we play in front of a live audience, and we definitely feed off of that and wanted to capture that. I love the power and energy of the best live blues albums. Historically, some of the most iconic blues and jazz records have been live ones. B.B. King’s Live At The Regal changed my life. So did Hound Dog Taylor’s Beware Of The Dog!, and Albert King’s Live Wire/Blues Power. We really wanted to continue that tradition and do one of our own.” Since they first hit the scene in 2018, GA-20 have quickly become the trailblazers of the nascent traditional blues revival. It’s a movement GA-20 kicked into gear with their debut album Lonely Soul on Colemine/Karma Chief Records. Two more full length releases – including 2022’s critically and popularly acclaimed Crackdown – and years of nonstop national and international touring has firmly cemented the band as one of the blues’ most significant young acts, bursting at the seams with talent. In December 2022 and January 2023 respectively, legendary magazines Vintage Guitar and Guitar Player selected GA-20 for cover features. They also appear on the cover of the December/January issue of the UK’s famed Blues Matters! #magazine. GA-20, according to Rolling Stone, are ”a pure marvel and delight” who play ”100% blues.” The UK’s Guardian says, ”GA-20 keeps things simple and fierce… scything, growling riffs, driving grooves, blistering boogies and defiant vocals.” Living Blues magazine declares, ”GA-20’s loose, raw, high-energy approach to the blues [is] guaranteed to get anyone with a pulse on to the dance floor. Riotously happy house rockers… they deliver sweaty, raucous grooves all night long.” But it’s not just the critics talking, as the band receives regular radio airplay from coast to coast and all around the world, from SiriusXM’s Bluesville to the BBC. Most importantly, the fanbase continues to swell, anxiously awaiting the band’s next move. Amazingly, GA-20’s full-length albums – 2022’s groundbreaking Crackdown, 2021’s tribute album GA-20 Does Hound Dog Taylor: Try It… You Might Like It!, and the 2019 EP LIVE: Vol. 1 – debuted at the #1 position on the Billboard Blues Chart. 2019’s Lonely Soul debuted at the #2 position. According to Stubbs, ”GA-20 is a band meant to be heard live, and we are most in our element in front of an audience.” Now, with Live In Loveland!, the band is thrilled to document the power and passion of their live performances. ”We love making records but performing live is even more important to us. Playing live as much as we do, we’re finding more and more that people are discovering how cool it all is.”
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Waters Muddy - Electric Mud (Gatefold Sleeve) (LP)
€29,90Quick View”In an attempt to make Muddy more sellable to his newly found white audience, Chess lumbered him with Hendrix-influenced psychedelic blues arrangements for Electric Mud. Commercially, actually, the results weren’t bad; Marshall Chess claims it sold between 150,000 and 200,000 copies. Musically, it was as ill-advised as putting Dustin Hoffman into a Star Wars epic. Guitarists Pete Cosey and Phil Upchurch are very talented players, but Muddy’s brand of down-home electric blues suffered greatly at the hands of extended fuzzy solos. Muddy and band overhaul classics like ”I Just Want to Make Love to You” and ”Hoochie Coochie Man,” and do a ludicrous cover of ”Let’s Spend the Night Together”; wah-wah guitars and occasional wailing soprano sax bounce around like loose basketballs. It’s a classically wrongheaded, crass update of the blues for a modern audience.”
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Various - More Boss Black Rockers Vol 1 – Guitar Pickin´ Fool (+ bonus CD) (LP)
€23,00Quick ViewEka osa 10 osan sarjaa. ENNAKKOON LOPPUUNMYYTY levy-yhtiöltä. Joten saa tilata heti.
More Boss Black Rockers Vol. 1: Guitar Pickin’ Fool serves as a reminder, not to mention an introduction for many of the originators of this wonderful genre of music, who had the creativity and vision to bring these wild and dangerous sounds to life, included within the very grooves of this magnificent artefact which, if you are reading this, you are now the proud recipient of. By containing a thoroughly compelling line-up of rock ‘n’ roll, and one that also serves as a history lesson, the final words on this chapter are quite simply, “Hail, hail
More Boss Black Rockers Vol. 1: Guitar Pickin’ Fool!”. Contains a free 28 track CD!
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Various - Boss Black Rockers Vol 8 – Cool It (LP)
€22,00Quick ViewDear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black rock and roll from the ”Golden Age” of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only ”originated” this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black ”Rhythm and Blues” music was suddenly re-named ”Rock and Roll” to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes on ”Boss Black Rockers” are pretty well-known and some are pretty obscure – even if a lot of those were actually pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this series were actually household names in the ”Rock and Roll World” of the ’50s and early ’60s. I sure hope with this great series to finally set things straight. After the massive success of this series on CD, we finally decided to release ”Boss Black Rockers” on vinyl LPs, cherry-picking the best songs ( a very hard task) from each and every volume. Dig it!
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ZZ Top - Raw (’That Little Ol’ Band From Texas) (Original Soundtrack) (LP)
€33,00Quick View2022 release. ZZ Top release Raw, which was recorded in connection with the band’s wildly popular and critically lauded 2019 Netflix documentary That Little Ol’ Band From Texas. The first track set to be released is ”Brown Sugar”, one of the earlier recordings in the band’s career. The Grammy-nominated feature from Banger Films and director Sam Dunn includes an interlude that finds the group’s classic line up – Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and the late Dusty Hill – gathering for a very intimate session at Gruene Hall, ”the oldest continually run dance hall in Texas” located in New Braunfels, in the heart of Texas hill country. That performance provided the basis for the Raw album release.
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Johnson Jeremiah - Hi -Fi Drive By (LP)
€27,50Quick ViewEvery great artist has a moment when they realize who they are, Jeremiah Johnson has truly come into his own with his new release HI-FI DRIVE BY. Get ready for a high-fidelity sonic explosion that combines Johnson’s master guitar work, songwriting skills and uniquely powerful vocals into ten tracks of pure brilliance. From the first track, featuring Victor Wainwright, to the third track featuring Brandon Santini, and all the way to the last note of the epic final track; HI-FI DRIVE BY delivers more hooks than fishermen’s tackle box. Every song is carefully crafted with multiple layers of tasty musicianship; with new audio delights to discover every time you give this first-class release a spin.
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Various - Boss Black Rockers Vol 7 – Wow Wow Baby (LP)
€22,00Quick ViewDear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black rock and roll from the ”Golden Age” of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only ”originated” this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black ”Rhythm and Blues” music was suddenly re-named ”Rock and Roll” to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes on ”Boss Black Rockers” are pretty well-known and some are pretty obscure – even if a lot of those were actually pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this series were actually household names in the ”Rock and Roll World” of the ’50s and early ’60s. I sure hope with this great series to finally set things straight. After the massive success of this series on CD, we finally decided to release ”Boss Black Rockers” on vinyl LPs, cherry-picking the best songs ( a very hard task) from each and every volume. Dig it!
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Taylor Joanne Shaw - Nobody’s Fool (LP)
€35,00Quick ViewJoanne Shaw Taylor was born and raised in the U.K. and discovered by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) at the age of 15. Right from the beginning, Joanne’s incredible guitar work and distinctive sultry vocals set her apart from the rest. Her latest studio album, Nobody’s Fool, was produced by Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith. It’s her most personal album to date. Joanne’s writing lays bare love, loss, and the desire to be free of the past through the vessel of catchy hooks and guitar riffs.
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Allison Bernard - Highs & Lows (LP)
€25,00Quick ViewThere’s nothing like the sound of a world-class bluesman getting back to business. Last October, when Bernard Allison returned to his old haunt of Bessie Blue Studios, Tennessee, to be greeted by fabled producer and career-long collaborator Jim Gaines, it felt like coming home. And when Allison fired up the amps, counted in the band and embarked upon his latest studio album, Highs And Lows, everything felt right with the world. ”Just to be able to create music again after the pandemic,” he says of that long-awaited rebirth, ”was incredible.” For 56 years, music has been Bernard Allison’s essence. As the youngest son of the much-missed Chicago bandleader Luther Allison, he was a bluesman from birth, naturally drawn to this ancient music that seemed to heal deep wounds, and held spellbound by early encounters with heavyweights like Muddy Waters, Albert King and Hound Dog Taylor.
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Henry Katie - On My Way (LP)
€25,00Quick ViewNJ born singer/songwriter and multi instrumentalist Katie Henry has been running nonstop in support of her IBMA and Blues Blast nominated debut album ’High Road’ and she is not slowing down. Katie and her band have been bringing their unique blend of blues influenced music to the people from one coast to the other. From her musical upbringing in the mountains of North Jersey to cutting her teeth in the New York City circuit, Katie channels all of her experience into her own distinctive sound. Whether she is crafting lyrics and melodies, soloing on her Gibson SG guitar, tickling the keys, or belting out her favorite blues songs, Katie shows that her music has no limits.
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Gibbons Billy F. - Hardware (Picture Disc, Ltd) (LP)
€40,00Quick ViewHardware, the third solo album from ZZ Top front man Billy Gibbons, has wrapped recording and post-production and is set for release June 4th by Concord Records. The album was recorded at Escape Studio in California’s high desert, near Palm Springs, and was produced by Gibbons along with Matt Sorum and Mike Fiorentino with engineer Chad Shlosser providing additional production. The album’s release is preceded by the release of the single “West Coast Junkie” on March 26.
Sorum, veteran of Guns ‘N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver and the Cult also serves as Hardware’s drummer and was joined in the album’s core band by guitarist Austin Hanks. The same Gibbons-Sorum-Hanks aggregation recorded The Big Bad Blues, Gibbon’s earlier solo effort for Concord and winner of the Blues Foundation’s Blues Music Award.
In contrast to The Big Bad Blues and Perfectamundo, Gibbons’ debut solo album, almost all of the Hardware repertoire is original and rock-oriented with eleven of the album’s twelve songs written by Gibbons, Sorum, Fiorentino and Shlosser. The sole exception is “Hey Baby, Que Paso,” originally recorded by the Texas Tornados. The album’s title is a tribute to legendary recording engineer the late Joe Hardy who worked with Gibbons and ZZ Top dating back to the mid-1980s. Sonically, the album was influenced by the high desert circumstance of its recording. Says Gibbons “The desert settings, replete with shifting sands, cacti and rattlesnakes makes for the kind of backdrop that lends an element of intrigue reflected in the sounds created out there.”
“Stackin’ Bones,” one of the album’s standouts, features a guest appearance by Larkin Poe with whom Gibbons has been familiar and friendly for quite a while. He initially met them through the good offices of Tyler Bryant, husband of Larkin Poe’s Megan Lovell; he had toured extensively with ZZ Top in the past. Larkin Poe also shared a bill with Billy at New York’s Love Rocks NYC benefit in 2019 and the Hardware collaboration grew from there.
While a truly broad spectrum of approaches is notable on the album’s hard driving tracks there is, to be sure, no mistaking the remarkable tone and growling vocals that are hallmarks of Billy Gibbons’ artistry. Elements of traditional hard rock, neo-metal, country rock, new wave, blues and even surf music make Hardware difficult to categorize and it would be a fool’s game to do so. In fact, “Desert High,” the album’s last track, is a spoken word piece accompanied by a sinewy guitar that evokes the legend Graham Parsons whose death 48 years ago took place very close to where Hardware was recorded.
Billy sums up the album’s ecumenical construct, “We holed up in the desert for a few weeks in the heat of the summer and that in itself was pretty intense. To let off steam we just ‘let it rock’ and that’s what Hardware is really all about. For the most part, it’s a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert’s implicit mystery.”
Hardware track listing – all songs written by Billy F Gibbons-Matt Sorum-Mike Fiorentino-Chad Shlosser, except “Hey Baby Que Paso,” written by Augie Meyers and Bill Sheffield
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Seasick Steve - Only On Vinyl (LP)
€29,90Quick ViewThe name says it all: Seasick Steve releases his new album exclusively as LP. ”Only On Vinyl” – no CD, no MC, no streaming.
The 71-year-old is obviously a fan of the black plastic and has made it a point to keep the production process of his twelfth album as analog as possible. Seasick Steve recorded the eight new songs in his barn, together with his drummer and longtime companion Dan Magnusson. The recordings were co-recorded on 16-track 2-inch tape and mixed to ½-inch tape by engineer and mixer Vance Powell. Then ”Only On Vinyl” was transferred directly from tape to vinyl lacquer cut, by Lewis Hopkin at Star Delta Mastering. Thus, the music was pressed to vinyl without any digital detours, just like the old days.
That suits Seasick Steve, who already called himself a ”Man From Another Time” on an album in 2009. And his reduced blues sound still sounds as unfashionable as ever. Nevertheless, the native Californian enjoys unbroken popularity, especially in Europe. His 2020 album ”Love And Peace” reached number 36 in the German charts and was thus his most successful album in Germany to date.
A success that ”Only On Vinyl” would like to build on if possible. With songs like ”Put That In Your Pipe”, the catchy sing-along ”Crash And Burn” and ”Down On The Farm 2”, the sequel to the fan favorite from ”Hubcap Music”, the chances are not bad.
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Various - Boss Black Rockers Vol 6 – Mardi Gras Rock (LP)
€22,00Quick ViewDear Cats and Kittens, dig this cool array of killer black rock and roll from the ”Golden Age” of American music. So many similar projects were devoted through the years to white rock and rollers (even the most obscure and unknown) and very little to the people that not only ”originated” this music and played it long before white musicians started to fool around with it. They also continued to play it when black ”Rhythm and Blues” music was suddenly re-named ”Rock and Roll” to appeal to a wider white audience in segregated America and became a multi-racial genre in the mid-1950s. Some tunes on ”Boss Black Rockers” are pretty well-known and some are pretty obscure – even if a lot of those were actually pretty popular in the 1950s among both black and white Rock and Roll fans. Most of the artists in this series were actually household names in the ”Rock and Roll World” of the ’50s and early ’60s. I sure hope with this great series to finally set things straight. After the massive success of this series on CD, we finally decided to release ”Boss Black Rockers” on vinyl LPs, cherry-picking the best songs ( a very hard task) from each and every volume. Dig it!
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White Tony Joe - The Beginning (Indie) (LP)
€27,00Quick ViewLP reissue. Blue vinyl.
Tony Joe White’s The Beginning was originally released on CD in 2001. Stripped down and recorded without any bells and whistles, this is Tony Joe recording himself playing his classic swamp blues sound. This album is regarded as the first album where Tony Joe controlled all elements of the studio
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Lyytinen Erja - Voracious Love (LP)
€25,00Quick ViewNYT EKAA KERTAA VINYYLINÄ!
Suomen bluesrockin sähikäisnainen, steel -kitarataituri ja ennenkaikkea laulaja-lauluntekijä Erja Lyytinen on tehnyt itsensä näköisen albumin! Tuloksena on musiikillisia raja-aitoja ryskyen kaatava VORACIOUS LOVE”. Ensimmäinen radiosinkku on Erjan säveltämä ja sanoittama biisi nimeltä ”BED OF ROSES”, jossa vierailevat Nightwishin (ja Tarotin) Marco Hietala, sekä sellovirtuoosi Apocalyptican Paavo Lötjönen! ”Voracios Love” on todella intohimoinen albumi – kaikki 13 kappaletta käsittelevät rakkauden eri nyansseja tai henkilökohtaisia suhteita ja Erjan oma vahva ja rehellinen panostus sanoituksissa tulee selkeästi esille.Erja on itse säveltänyt ja tehnyt sanoitukset kahteentoista kappaleeseen, joista yhteistyösäveltäjinä hänellä ovat olleet tuottajansa Davide Floreno kappaleessa ”Bird” ja ”Crowes At Your Door” biisissä veteraani bluessäveltäjä Jon Tiven (mm. Buddy Guy, Robert Cray jne). Viimeisen silauksen ja samalla hypyn historiaan tekee albumille valittu Blind Willie Johnsonin kappale ”Soul Of Man”. Tämä hienosti tuotettu albumi täydentää luontevasti Erja Lyytisen omia tavoitteita biisintekijänä ja levylle on saatu upeasti vangittua kaikki hänen parhaat elementtinsä myös taitavana muusikkona. ’Voracious Love’ is Finnish slide guitarist Erja Lyytinen most personal album, as she presents 13 love songs (including a cover and a couple of co-writes) in the rock /blues format. Co-produced by guitarist/keyboard player Davide Floreno, she cleverly traces the hopes and disappointments of her protagonists via moments of deep blues and virtuoso playing that conjures up an array of colourful tones and riffs. For this is a blues guitar album that will satisfy fans on a number of different levels ranging from the heartfelt meaning of the songs to Erja trademark sizzling solos which help colour the lyrics and embrace real feel and clarity of expression. ’Voracious Love’ is a passionate album by an artist who never content who to rest in her comfort zone. As Erja explains, ’These stories are songs about situations where if we haven’t been in those situations ourselves, then we certainly known someone else who has’. ’Voracious Love’ subtly shifts the focus from Erja’s intense solos to the core of the songs. Together with an excellent band and special guests Marco Hietala (Nightwish on vocals) and cellist Paavo Lotjonen (Apocalyptica) there are many highlights on an excellent contemporary blues album.Pete Feenstra”
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Larkin Poe - Blood Harmony (LP)
€29,50Quick ViewBlood Harmony affirms Larkin Poe as an essential force in shaping the identity of Southern rock‘n’ roll, breathing new energy into the genre with both forward-thinking perspective and adecidedly feminine strength. In a departure from the self-contained approach of past albums like2020’s Self Made Man–praised byAmerican Songwriteras “pumped up for arena-sizedconsumption without compromising any of its stripped-down command and intensity”–LarkinPoe co-producedthe new albumalongside Texas-bred musician Tyler Bryant (also Rebecca’shusband). With Megan handling harmony vocals, lap steel, and resonator guitar and Rebecca onguitar and keys, Larkin Poe also enlisted members of their longtime live band, including drummerKevin McGowan and bassist Tarka Layman. Mainly recorded at Rebecca and Tyler’s home studio,the result is an electrifying new work that fully harnesses the fiery vitality they’ve shown intouring across the globe, imbuing their songs with equal parts soulful sensitivity and thrillingferocity. Fromthe feverish guitar work of “Bad Spell” to the soul-stirring “Southern Comfort” andsmoldering title track,Blood Harmonyreveals a band in complete touch with their formidableintuition, their storytelling fortified with a blues-heavy sound that hits right in the heart.
“When steering by your own stars, you never quite know where you’re going to wind up,” saysLarkin Poe. “Our true north is unique to us, and in following our true north without compromise,we have been out freewheeling this world on theride of our lives. And it still feels like just thebeginning. Blood Harmony is a creative step we are proud to have taken together as sisters.We grew these songs in a sweet part of our hearts and we hope they bring beauty.”
