Classic Rock 225 - Born Under A Bad Sign
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Classic Rock Magazine / Classic Rock issue 225 SUMMER 2016
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From traditional blues rock to southern riffs and fuzzy heaviness, these 15 scorchers showcase the blues in all its rich, wide-reaching glory.

01 JOE BONAMASSA - This Train
Kicking off Joe's twelfth album, this track is described by the bluesman as a "total no-brainer that felt energetic and alive from the second we played it". Sprayed liberally with expert slide guitar, if this track really was a train you'd want to freight-hop it.
From Blues Of Desperation

02 DAN PATLANSKY - Stop The Messin'
Patlansky broke beyond his native South Africa with 2014's Dear Silence Thieves, and came back stronger with Introvertigo. With a strut of a chorus and a somersault of a guitar solo, this lascivious piece of power-blues is the one to beat.
From Introvertigo

03 TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN - Devil's Keep
With a shudder of tremolo, a sinister vocal and an eerie slide solo, this highlight from The Wayside EP evokes a kayak trip through the American boondocks, and belies the tender age of Bryant's Nashville four-piece.
From The Wayside EP

04 SULFUR CITY - Sold
Canadian soul-rollers Sulfur City look like another jewel in West Coast buzz label Alive Naturalsound's roster. A grubby thump and a Hendrixian shiver of feedback break into a rootsy double-time groove, setting up singer Lori Paradis's opening gambit: 'Let me tell you a story about the day l nearly died...'
From Talking Loud

05 ROBIN TROWER - In Too Deep
Amid the painfully intimate songs on latest album Where You Are Going To, In Too Deep was the release valve. An unfussy rocker with a guitar solo that upholds Trower's hallowed reputation, it began as a pastiche of his 60s peers.
From Where You Are Going To

06 BROKEN WITT REBELS - Suzie
The Birmingham quartet hop across the Atlantic here, with neck-tingling staccato riffs and a chorus that could have fallen off the production line at Muscle Shoals. It's the vocals that'll have you out of your seat, though, with Danny Core's delivery equal parts gravel and fairy dust.
From Georgia Pine EP

07 BLUES PILLS - Lady In Gold
As rock stars kick buckets all around us, there's a certain morbid timeliness to the title track from the Swedes' second album. "We wanted a twist on the stereotype of death being the Grim Reaper," says singer Elin Larsson. "So we made her a lady in gold."
From Lady In Gold

08 THE RECORD COMPANY - Off The Ground
Five years ago, Chris Vos, Marc Cazorla and Alex Stiff sat up all night in Los Angeles listening to Hooker N'Heat. You can hear it, too, in the stalking boogie of this flagship track from debut album Give It Back To You.
From Give It Back To You

09 ALBANY DOWN - Mr. Hangman
The blues-rock punch of London four-piece Albany Down is exemplified by this rueful rocker. "Mr. Hangman is about the wait before an old cowboy-style execution," the band explain. "It's all about the regret that comes from not doing more with your life."
From The Outer Reach

10 SCORPION CHILD - Acid Roulette
You can't accuse Texan heavies Scorpion Child of lacking ambition: Acid Roulette traces the tale of "a bohemian guy who gets framed for a murder he perhaps did or didn't do". Four tracks into the narrative, this title track is suitably unhinged, shifting from epic desert rock into a keyboard wigout that probably should besectioned.
From Acid Roulette

11 JARED JAMES NICHOLS - Don't You Try
He was born in the shadow of the Wisconsin venue where Stevie Ray Vaughan played his final show, and some of that mojo evidently rubbed off on Nichols. He planted his flag with last year's Old Glory And The Wild Revival, and dodges the blues-rock cliches with this punchy return.
From Don't You Try (single)

12 KING KING - Rush Hour
Frontman Alan Nimmo wrote Rush Hour while a troubled 16-year-old, and finally pulled the trigger on the song with last year's acclaimed Reaching For The Light. "l wrote that about the pressures of life," he says. "It sounds a bit like Thunder, maybe a touch of Free..."
From Reaching For The Light

13 STEVIE NIMMO - Change
Not to be outdone by his kid brother, Stevie Nimmo's eclectic second solo album Sky Won't Fall nods to rock, blues and country, and was loosely driven by the theme of "not conforming for the benefit of other people". This wistful soul-rocker is a neat summation of the concept.
From Sky Won't Fall

14 BEN POOLE - Lying To Me
Bedfordshire hot-tip Ben Poole has been dubbed "fucking amazing" by Jeff Beck, and his second album Time Has Come gives weight to the plaudits. Lying To Me's wah-wah guitar and swirled organ is punctured by a vocal with bite and bark.
From Time Has Come

15 WO FAT - Three Minutes To Midnight
The heaviest track here by tons, Three Minutes To Midnight finds the Dallas fuzz-merchants in their element, batting hirsute riffage back and forth and going round the house with a mind-expanding mid-section.
From Midnight Cometh