2025 – Vizztone Label Group
By Phillip
Smith; August
23, 2025
Original source : phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com
Keep
on Pushin, the eighth album from
bluesman Kirk Fletcher is a delightfully smooth recording. Consisting of
a mix of originals and classic-era blues covers, this ten-track record was
recorded in Wow and Flutter Studio in East Nashville and co-produced
by Fletcher and JD Simo. It features JD Simo on slide
guitar with Nashville-based musicians Jason Smay on drums, and Ron
Eloff on bass.
A cover of “It’s Love Baby” ushers the album in with Fletcher’s warm guitar tones, and smooth vocals. This classic deep cut was originally released in 1955, and was a hit for several artists: Louis Brooks and His Hi-Toppers, Hank Ballard’s The Midnighters, and Ruth Brown. Fletcher takes on Arthur Crudup’s 1951 song of despair in “I’m Gonna Dig Myself a Hole”, and brilliantly delivers it with a locomotive twang. “Croke”, an original West-coast jump-blues instrumental, puts me right in my happy place. The album’s title-track is as real-deal blues as can get with “Keep On Pushing”, a title Fletcher states “is a positive message in these uncertain times”. I absolutely love the closing track “Blues For Robert Nighthawk” written by Simo. This song is a deliciously swampy slice of delta blues. Slathered with Simo’s masterful slide guitar, this one is an amazing listen.
Straight-up blues fans will definitely want to pick up Kirk Fletcher’s Keep On Pushing. It really is a great album.
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For more info on Kirk
Fletcher, visit his website at https://kirkfletcherband.com/
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