New junk from Mr. Mississippi Gabe Carter

ol' Gabe Carter sent me a couple new
live tracks recorded in a band setting.

You should download both----->

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The Photography of Lou Bopp

The Photography of Lou Bopp:

SMOKE FAiRiES

Smoke Fairies aka Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire, are a progressive/retrospective UK mashup of classic english folk and deep american blues streams with breaths of high lonesome country musics. Formed as girlhood friends and realized while living in New Orleans and sponging the blues vibe found via creeping backwoods roadtrips and Hwy day drives, Smoke Fairies cross-breed lilting, eerie, and gorgeous dark english harmonies with textures of atmospheric fiddle, sinister slide and strummed acoustic guitar, banjo, and the occasional minimalist drums to form a sound wholly new, ancient, moody, beguiling, fresh and utterly haunting.

Smoke Fairies on Black Cab Sessions
Smoke Fairies @ MySpace
Smoke Fairies @ FaceBook

Smoke Fairies new Frozen Heart ep is available at Amazon and iTUNES

Sorry friends- Smoke Fairies manager has requested I take these tracks down even tho I advised them that i'd be posting 3 tracks when I requested a copy of the ep. Best of luck to them anyway. Please give them your money via tunes or Amazon. You'll be glad you did. Cheers y'all.

Smoke Fairies- Living With Ghosts
Smoke Fairies- Fences
Smoke Fairies- Frozen Heart

THE BONNEViLLES - GOOD SUiTS and FiGHTiN' BOOTS!

The Bonnevilles are a grimy punk-infected rocknsoulblues duo out of Lurgan. Bonnevilles guitarist/singer Andy McGibbon day job is boss of Lurgan's Motor Sound Records which represents a stable of underground (if there is such a thing anymore) outsider blues and garage outfits from around the globe (check out my review of Motor Sounds wicked compilation Blood On The Scratch Plate '65). With their new release Good Suits and Fightin' Boots, The Bonnevilles announce their arrival as a band to reckoned with, feared, and loved.

McGibbon's voice is a gritty, sexy, early Danny Auerbach-ian soul machine. His guitar sound swings thick, heavy, and as tasteful as a saws-all with a new blade, at once vicious and keen-edged. McGibbon keeps the vibe hangin' low, feedback full, and on-point exact. Drummer Chris McMullan's work is burly...soulful like ironwood and it tears at the seams of McGibbon's vintage pinstriped pocket, primally adding what's sonically required and vital. As a team they give each other the needful room the music requires to breath, grind, wail, and shake.

Shall we get on to the album? Let's shall.
Hey! Bonnevilles! Who the fck starts out their first album with an instrumental? You do, ya bastards. That takes some cojones. But while Good Suits stands tall as a powerful eleven track filler-less collection of singles it also flows album-wise, weaving from the aforementioned instro One More Nail Outta Rock n' Rolls Coffin to the souped up garage stormer Army of One to the boogieass menace of title tracker Good Suits and Fightin' Boots. No Government, No Country, No King is a slow, tense politiblues burner which is followed by The Drag which sports a similar hot slow burning, if not sexier vibe and ends with the snip of a JFK speech. The centerpiece of this work, God Might Love Me (But He Doesn't Know Me Like The Devil Does) stands as one of the tracks I found myself playing repeatedly. McMullan's simple slow tribal toms match McGibbon's on-point grungy slide work to set a resigned yet menacing tone. Acoustic roots rocker I don't Like Whiskey is a blues redeemer. Super single C'Mon is a delicious hook filled head knocker and bottle buster with it's singalong chorus raisin' hell and fuss. The Belgians Are Coming is two minutes of Dick Dale-esque red tide dirty surf perfection. The set ends with the wicked live anthem Hardtale Lurgan Blues that smokes deep and hard from fit to fin. Like my man Dj Hillfunk says "it's a slow grower" but once I locked into the turbo charged souled-out grinding alt-blues sound of The Bonnevilles I was blown up and dusted. The Bonnevilles Good Suits and Fightin' Boots easily ranks high on my short list of best albums of the year.

You Will buy The Bonnevilles- Good Suits and Fightin' Boots HERE

The Bonnevilles- The Drag MP3
The Bonnevilles- C'Mon MP3
The Bonnevilles- God Might Love Me (But He Doesn't Know Me Like The Devil Does) MP3
The Bonneville- Hard Tail Lurgan Blues MP3

TEN FOOT POLE CATS at DEEP BLUES FESTiVAL 2009

The Ten Foot Polecats are just another badass Deep Blues band outta Massachusetts. Thank Gawd! They have just released their first ep- a fine little five track affair of covers and I'm just in love with the thing. Drawing heavy influence from the low down,hard and creepy aspects of deep blues heroes like Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside, Hound Dog Taylor, Howlin' Wolf and others Ten Foot PoleCats bring the best elements of North Mississippi, Texas, Detroit, Memphis and elsewhere and channel it thru the dirty back bays and alley ways and side street bar holes of bad'assachusetts.

John Lee Hooker and Miles Davis ~ Bank Robbery (1990)