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Debut Album, "Sunday Best"
£10.00 @ gigs
or
£13.00 by post (p&p included)
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1 |
Too Much Trouble |
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2 |
Treat A Dog |
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3 |
Happiness |
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4 |
Unreal Values |
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5 |
Sing The Blues |
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6 |
Lonely Town, Lonely Street |
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7 |
Big Bird |
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8 |
Too Much Trouble (remix) |
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***SPECIAL DEAL***
BUY BOTH CD'S BY POST FOR JUST £23.00
To order your CD by post, please send a cheque payable to S.J.Kelly to:
STATION HOUSE
PO Box 617
Harrow
HA1 9BU
DON'T FORGET TO INCLUDE YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS WITH YOUR ORDER
Reviews
Sam Kelly could well be described as the UK’s answer to Sam Lay; a consummate blues drummer who has “paid his dues” backing the cream of American blues artists touring the UK, whilst also leading his own blues aggregations.
‘Sunday Best’ features him with Station House – the band and the CD taking their titles from the fact that they were the house band at Bob’s Goodtime Blues jams, held Sunday lunchtimes at the Station Tavern, London.
Apart from the aforementioned Kelly, Station House comprises Dave Clark (bass/keys), Root Jackson (vocals/percussion) and T.J. Johnson (guitar), playing what Fowokan George Kelly, in the sleeve notes, describes as a band that “reverberates with a uniquely British Caribbean flavour that throbs with an earthiness that evoke a sense of distant places”. This is an apt description for music that is a tough, uncompromising, compelling melange of down-home Blues and Jamaican R&B liberally laced with African and low-down funky influences.
Kelly’s unerring sense of rhythm and Clark’s pulsing bass lines are the perfect foil for Root Jackson’s raw and impassioned vocals, and Johnson’s gutbucket, funky wah-wah embellishments as they take Bill Withers’ ‘Lonely Town, Lonely Street’ skittering into the gutter, and Albert King’s ‘ (I’ll) Sing The Blues (For You)’, replete with haunting organ, and low-key vocals (T.J.Johnson) way down into the deepest shadows of blues alley.
Allen Toussaint’s ‘Happiness’, is a slab of funky and evocative, gutbucket Crescent City R&B laced with elements of Jimmy Spruill; Root Jackson’s anguished vocals and Johnson’s feral guitar fire the compellingly intense ‘Unreal Values’; whilst ‘Too Much Trouble’ demonstrates Kelly’s credentials as the new “shuffle-meister”, as the band mines an earthily hypnotic groove.
Highly recommended – but beware – these blues are not for the faint-hearted! (www.sam-kelly.com)
6 bottles
…Mick Rainsford |
