Blues Karloff - Light and Shade

Size: 358 MB
Time: 43:46
File: Flac
Released: 2015
Styles: Blues-rock
Art: Full

1. I Ain’t Superstitious (3:11)
2. Close Together (2:53)
3. Love Doctor (3:07)
4. Don’t Lie to Me (4:43)
5. Take These Chains (3:01)
6. I’m a Bluesman (3:32)
7. All Over Now (3:46)
8. Hey Gypsy (2:39)
9. Looking Tired (2:33)
10. Blackout Blues (3:55)
11. Pills and Booze (4:03)
12. Don’t Tell Me What to Do (3:15)
13. Evil (3:07)

The Belgian blues band Blues Karloff was founded a few years ago by guitarist Fonzie Verdickt and drummer Georges Milikan. After a few changes in the line-up, the band got its current line-up in 2013 with singer Alfie Falckenbach, bassist Frans Ruzicka, drummer George Milikan and guitarists Paul “Shorty” Van Camp and Thomas Vanhaute. Blues Karloff gets its musical inspiration from the blues as it was made in the 60s and 70s mainly in England by The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things, The Jeff Beck Group, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac and Led Zeppelin. Their debut album ‘Ready For Judgement day’ (2014) was an ode to their blues heroes Robert Johnson, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters. Last month, Blues Karloff's second album, 'Light And Shade', was released, which, unlike its predecessor, contains not only covers but also original songs. It is a very heavy blues rock album. It hits the mark right away with the opener, the Willie Dixon-written I Ain't Superstitious. Ripping guitars and a heavy rhythm section that reminds one of The Jeff Beck Group's version. The heavy guitar solos then continue in the exciting, thundering rock version of Jimmy Reed's classic Close Together. Love Doctor, known from George Thorogood, is another fierce blues rocker with passionate vocals by Alfie Falckenbach. The lyrical guitars are beautiful in the slow blues Don't Lie To Me. Take These Chains (From My Heart), recorded by Hank Williams in 1952, is given a heavy version with blazing guitar solos. Influences from Led Zeppelin and The Free mark the guitar riffs and rolling bass drenched I’m A Bluesman. The Womack and Womack composition and especially from The Rolling Stones known All Over Now has become a steaming version and the Bob Seger number Hey Gipsy is again characterized by the driven vocals. An “odd one out” is the Jagger/Richards composition Looking Tired that in the performance of Blues Karloff becomes a nice groovy acoustic version. That was also the only resting point on the album because after that the blues rock violence breaks loose again. Flaming guitars, the omnipresent rhythm section and the driven vocals in Blackout Blues, Pills And Booze and Don’t Tell Me What To Do. The closing number is another cover, the Evil written by Willie Dixon and especially known from Howlin’ Wolf. The almost distorted performance by Blues Karloff has a big Led Zeppelin content with a hard hitting drummer.

Light and Shade FLAC

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