Eddie Martin With His Big Blues Band - Looking Forward Looking Back

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 56:15
Size: 128.8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[3:03] 1. Frog In The Long Grass
[3:25] 2. Sorry For The Rain
[4:00] 3. Wannabe Me
[5:02] 4. Let It Slide
[3:52] 5. Tough Times
[3:44] 6. Supermodel
[5:36] 7. Looking Forward Looking Back
[3:28] 8. Jumpy Legs
[3:16] 9. Zombie Attack
[3:23] 10. Headspace
[3:58] 11. She's A He
[3:42] 12. I Want That Girl
[3:39] 13. Funky One Too
[6:00] 14. Second Chance Romance

“Since the mid 1990s, Eddie Martin is the most important blues musician to come out of the UK. Whether as a one-man band or with his popular Big Band, he commands respect both among guitarists and blues harp players and also for his knowledge of his blues history and his gift for songwriting. His new album “Looking Forward Looking Back” is, in a sense a homage to early blues guitarists, as diverse as T-Bone Walker, Elmore James and Johnny “Guitar” Watson. The album shifts easily from boogie tunes to rock and roll through to Funkblues with “Funky One Too,” where Pee Wee Ellis wrote the arrangement. What makes up a major part of the energy of the album – and the fun that it evokes as a listener and as an inspiration to dance! – is the fact that this big band were recorded completely live in the studio. Here are real experts at work, and they have presented a wonderful blues album. This is recommended for fans of classic and contemporary Blues”.

“The classic periods of 2oth Century Blues are affectionately echoed in lightning solos, strong melodies and arrangements, filtered through a recognizably British aesthetic.. Imagination, humour, attention to detail: Eddie Martin has all the credentials to maintain a high artistic and commercial profile in the entire “English-speaking” blues world, where he remains one of its strongest voices.” ~Il Blues

Looking Forward Looking Back mc
Looking Forward Looking Back zippy

---