DEEP BLUES FESTiVAL 2011: The First Video is Rollin' in!

For you poor bastards that didn't make The Deep Blues Festival,  here's the first taste i've seen. I'll add more as they show up. Watch and weep:











THX to Chris and April!

TEN FOOT POLE CATS

Massachusetts' everlovin' Ten Foot Polecats have released their first proper album entitled I Get Blamed For Everything (Hillgrass Bluebilly Records). This follows their excellent EP Sterno Soup which came as a nice dirty surprise outta nowhere. No surprises here other than TFP is a couple years harder, several thousand miles tighter, and countless gigs wickeder. A lot of bands that play blues are content to play the same ol' warhorse covers that have been beaten to death to the point they give off a stink that makes me sick. Ten Foot Polecats is a blues band that kicks the crap out of the original and gives it a new lease on life so that if your band wants to cover, say, T-Model Ford's Chickenhead Man it's TFP's version yr gonna need to contend with. But unlike a lot of other bands out there that claim to play blues TFP's originals stand just as tall and worthy as their covers. This is a band that has done it's homework at the College of Musical Knowledge but don't let that get in their way of laying down their own thing. You'll hear the Wolf prowlin' CCR's swamp and R.L. Burnside shakin' it with early seventies J.Geils Band. But all that good sexy mess is run down Ten Foot Polecats-style. TFP bring new life to three-piece blues. This ain't no toothless panama hat blues. Ten Foot Polecats bring the vibe, the groove, the mystery, and the balls that blues music must have to carry on to the coming generations. Another fine and powerful recording by one of the best blues bands out there. Hail.

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From I Get Blamed For Everything ---> BUY!
Chickenhead Man MP3
Dryspell MP3
Couple More Miles MP3

From the Sterno Soup ep ---> BUY!
Work Me MP3
Thought I Heard MP3

TEN FOOT POLE CATS

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.