Jean Paul Rena & Terrawheel - 2 albums: Introducing... / Can't Be Satisfied

Album: Introducing...
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 54:28
Size: 124.7 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2004/2011
Art: Front

[2:20] 1. Enough Is Enough
[4:32] 2. Low Down
[7:27] 3. Jail Cell Wall
[5:14] 4. Mean Mistreater
[3:14] 5. Catfish
[4:25] 6. If I Was You
[2:30] 7. My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble
[5:07] 8. Meat On The Bone
[3:26] 9. Doin' All The Things
[3:44] 10. Money
[5:24] 11. Remember Me
[2:51] 12. Everything's Gonna Be Alright
[4:07] 13. Some Changes

Blues Revue (USA) has described the sound of Jean Paul Rena & Terrawheel as ‘Roadhouse Blues’. During live shows the band shows its true quality, that roadhouse-BBQ smoky character. When listening to the album just close your eyes and you can imagine sitting in a Mississippi juke joint or a true Chicago blues venue, hollering from an Alabama porch or hanging in a gung-ho New York City mobster lounge.

No pussyfooting; the gaps between the songs are not long enough for you to recover. The tight-knit hard ballin' sound is held together by groovin' drums and bass, allowing JP to overlay a dark howlin' voice and a distinctly wailing ‘ crash and burn’ guitar. Punctuated and supported by familiar echoes of a venom-minal ‘Mississippi saxophone’ in the tradition of Marion "Little Walter" Jacobs, the best harmonica player who ever set foot on this planet.

Ask Jean Paul Rena where the future of his band lies and he’ll tell you: “It’s out there!” Out there where Rock and Soul meet the Blues, where Led Zeppelin meets John Lee Hooker, where the nail hits the wood. A deadly combination of dedication, heart, skill and quality. Blending originals with a dash of Albert King and Muddy Waters. Honest traditional raw roots-rock, drawing heavily on Chicago and Mississippi-delta influences as well as inspiration from Texas axe-men.

Jean Paul hails from a little old Dutch seaport, of which the name has proven to be a tongue-breaker to many, a foreigner. Story has it that JP used to call in the fishermen's ships when heavy weather was imminent and so became a blues-shouter. Ascertaining his raw and powerful ‘dark-brown’ voice this could well be the true reason how the head-honcho blues-scatter acquired that necessary ingredient to Terrawheel’s gritty blues-rock blend.

Introducing... mc
Introducing... zippy

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Album: Can't Be Satisfied
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:17
Size: 108.3 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[4:10] 1. Hoochie Coochie Man
[4:12] 2. Too Drunk
[3:12] 3. Memo From O.S
[3:19] 4. Love Flue
[4:09] 5. Voodoo Chile
[3:07] 6. Torre's Walk
[6:14] 7. Sun Is Shining
[3:00] 8. Crossroad
[2:58] 9. Make Believe
[3:01] 10. Blues
[3:07] 11. Can't Be Satisfied
[4:05] 12. Blue Son
[2:37] 13. Buzz Buzz

In December the night falls early in the South. It's a quarter past four on the road from Memphis, Tennessee, to Clarksdale, Mississippi. Twilight has set in. I throw another CD in the machine & set the cruise control to maximum. Just when I see the exit to Helena, home of the King Biscuit Flower Hour blues tradition, a very danceable out-of-left-field version of Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Koochie Man" starts rocking the car. I don't need seven doctors to say I'm born for good luck: got my lovely Deb'rah on my side & a 'hoochie koochie son of a guitar' almost blasting the windows out. For a moment or two my heart skips a beat when an officer behind me turns on his blue lights. Maybe I'm 20 decibels above the local limit. But he turns around on screeching rubber on the way to a worse crime. "Rock ' roll, I'm on a mission" my man Jewan-Paul belches out & the pedal hits the metal to get us in time to the Crossroads of the Blues, where Highway 61 meets Highway 49. Standing on the crossroads, not knowing what way to choose." Where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. With a Dutch voice electrifying me on the way to the cradle of it all. Where Ike Turner went to school to become the inspiration for the greatest guitar-moments of the Spencer Davis Group, the Yardbirds, Manfred Mann, Jeff Beck, the Stones (& other British rockers 'pillaging the blues') & three generations of Dutch heroes, from Cuby & the Blizzards via Barrelhouse to Julian Sas. In this part of the States more blues than oil wells up from the soil. We're on the holy grounds of Muddy Waters, Model T-Ford; Junior Parker, Super Chikan Johnson and his Fightin' Cocks, John Lee Hooker, Sam Cooke, W.C. Handy, Eddie Boyd & Ike's sidekick Jackie Brenson (who invented rock 'n roll with "Rocket 88"). ~Evert Wilbrink

Can't Be Satisfied mc
Can't Be Satisfied zippy

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