Showing posts with label PhillyCheeze Blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PhillyCheeze Blues. Show all posts

Saturday, April 5, 2025

#739- > Sean Chambers - Live From Daryl's House Club (PhillyCheezeBlues.Blogspot.com)

 


2025 – Quarto Valley Records
Release Date : Feb. 28, 2025
 
By Phillip Smith; April 5, 2025
 
Original source : phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com

 

The Blues is most definitely part of Sean Chambers’ DNA.  For five years between 1998 and 2003, he was Hubert Sumlin’s guitarist and bandleader. Recording at Daryl Hall’s place in Pawling, New York, undoubtedly injects a very positive energy to the final sound.  With that in mind, Live From Daryl’s House Club, the seventh and most recent release from Chambers is an extraordinary example of live blues-rock at its mightiest. With Chambers backed by the Savoy Brown Rhythm Section, bassist Pat DeSalvo and drummer Garnet Grimm, this album pays a great honor to the late, great Kim Simmonds who sadly passed away in December of 2022.  Being that Chambers and Simmons are label-mates on Quarto Valley Records set the stage for this exciting partnership.   

The record opens in a with an amazing instrumental called “Cobra”. It totally ignites the stage with a brute force. I love the driving locomotive rhythm of “Red Hot Mama”. Chambers’ fiery guitar riffs and whiskey-soaked vocals absolutely shine on this Texas blues song. Hearing them play “Louise” brought a smile to my face. Passed down through the ranks from Howlin’ Wolf to Sumlin to Chambers, the song surely stands the test of time and this performance is fabulous. Dedicated to Simmonds and all the Savoy Brown fans in the house, “Street Corner Talking” quickly targets the soul with its hypnotic groove and digs right in for nearly eight minutes of musical bliss. In a tip of the hat to Rory Gallagher, Chambers lets loose on “Bullfrog Blues”. Grimm fills the song with his own thunder and lightning, making this a stellar performance. Chambers then rolls into “Sweeter Than a Honey Bee” and “Trouble & Whiskey” to wrap up a very nice three-fer of tracks from his 2017 album Trouble & Whiskey. I love the deep bass groove and crashing drum fills that pour over Chambers’ searing guitar on Muddy Waters’ “Louisiana Blues”. This one is a sure favorite as well.

Don’t let this record sneak past you. Sean Chambers’ Live From Daryl’s House Club is an album one will want to listen to loud and listen to often.

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Photo by Arnie Goodman

Photo by Alain Broeckx


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Sean Chambers

https://www.seanchambers.com/


Daryl’s House Club

https://darylshouseclub.com/ 


Past articles on PhillyCheeze Rock & Blues Reviews featuring Sean Chambers

https://phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com/search?q=sean+chambers

 

Past articles on PhillyCheeze Rock & Blues Reviews featuring Savoy Brown

https://phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com/search?q=savoy+brown

 

Friday, April 26, 2024

#676 : Canned Heat - Finyl Vinyl (PhillyCheezeBlues.Blogspot.com)

 


Canned Heat

Finyl Vinyl

2024 – Ruf Records

By Phillip Smith; April 27, 2024

 

Original source : phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com

For a band whose music spans nearly Sixty years, Canned Heat has sure had a good run. Their latest album Final Vinyl just leaves their fans wanting more. It really is a terrific album. Dale Spalding leads the group on vocals and harmonica, with original member Adolfo ‘Fito’ de la Parra on Drums, Jimmy Vivino (Tonight Show Band) on guitars,keys,vocals, and Richard Reed on bass.

Kicking off this eleven-track album is the very-fitting “One Last Boogie”. Knowing this is their last album, this song is a bitter-sweet beginning of the end. I love all the automobile references in “Going to Heaven (in a Pontiac)”. Spalding rips it up on harp and vocals in this classic-style original. The great Joe Bonamassa steps in as guest guitarist on “So Sad (The World’s in a Tangle)” for a cooking blues track. The rhythm section keeps this one diligently churning. The most unique song is an instrumental called “East/West Boogie”. I adore this adaptation of the theme for the Apple TV show Tehran. The track absolutely shines. Things heat up for “A Hot Ole Time” with Vivino ripping it up on guitar and Spalding wailing on harp. I absolutely love the slide guitar presence to the harp-heavy deep-blues track “When You’re 69”. This is what the blues is all about,

Like a fine wine, Canned Heat’s Finyl Vinyl gets better and better with every listen. It’s surely a record blues fans will want to add to their collection.

 

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Monday, February 12, 2024

#661 : Winter Blues Fest 2024 (PhillyCheezeBlues.Blogspot.com)

 


Winter Blues Fest 2024

Downtown Marriott

Des Moines, Iowa

February 10, 2024

By Phillip Smith; Feb. 12, 2024

Original source : phillycheezeblues.blogspot.com

 

I finally made it to Des Moines for the Central Iowa Blues Society’s Winter Blues Fest, and it was a blast.  Although the festival runs for two days, I was only able to make it over to the Capital City for the Saturday shows which included Matt Woods, Studebaker John, Heath Alan’s Iowa Blues Expo, Rush Cleveland Trio, Gabe Stillman Band, Jimmi & the Band of Souls, Tony Holiday, Indigenous, Max Kaplan & the Magic, McKinley James, Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal, Tom Holland & the Shuffle Kings, Cashbox Kings, & Toronzo Cannon.   The Friday shows, which I unfortunately missed, consisted of Ben Levin Duo, Josh Hoyer, The Cold Stares, JD Simo, Mike Morgan & the Crawl, and Carolyn Wonderland.  With five stages for music, choices had to be made.  I did not get the opportunity to see everyone, but I did see some fantastic acts.  Although the snow and ice were kept at bay this year, there was certainly a “Blizzard of Blues” going on at Winter Blues Fest. 

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·         * All photos by Phillip Smith 


Matt Woods





Jimmi & the Band of Souls

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Heath Alan's Iowa Blues Expo





Tony Holiday















Rush Cleveland Trio










Studebaker John




Indigenous








Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal








Toronzo Cannon









·         * All photos by Phillip Smith 



For more information about Central Iowa Blues Society and Winter Blues Fest, visit their website at https://cibs.org/