Wednesday, August 27, 2025

The Backbones - Two Track Wonders

Album: Two Track Wonders
Size: 59,2 MB
Time: 25:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Front, tray

1. I'm In Love With You (2:52)
2. Love Me (2:45)
3. Icecream Man (4:08)
4. Come On In This House (3:56)
5. Don't Leave Me At Home (3:32)
6. Tramp (4:03)
7. Stranger Blues (4:21)

Here's an excellent 7-track mini-album from Holland’s finest, The Backbones. The band is fronted by the immense personality of Pieter "Big Pete" van der Pluijm, with big-toned harmonica and fine vocals. The other members are Sander Kooiman (guitar), Julius "Lord Julius"’ van Brakel (bass) and Joost Tazelaar (drums) with guest keyboards from Govert van der Kolm. Big Pete is probably one of Europe’s finest musicians, with the band having backed many visiting American players such as Monster Mike Welch and Alex Schultz, as well as being involved in the Lester Butler Tribute Band together with Matt Schofield.

This release came about when their friend Rob van Boeckel had studio time available at New Road Studios in Wijchen, due to a band splitting, and the resulting album was recorded in just one night. This comes highly recommended and should be available at all gigs. Apparently the band have signed for the top American label Delta Groove, with a full length album in the offing for this year – that should be well worth the wait.

Two Track Wonders mc
Two Track Wonders gofile

9 comments:

Smokey said...

A nice one, thanks

Motown Fats said...

Hey Red,

Luv me sum Big Pete. Many thanks!

daba said...

Thanks Rooster! I also enjoy Big Petes' playing.🤙💙🎼😎

Bluesercher said...

@ Red Rooster: Woow! I do not know, that this album exist! Thanks You very much! Regards.

juan manuel muñoz said...

Many, many thanks, my friend. Cheers.

Franz said...

Say Pete live in concert last year. This man can blow some mean harmonica.

Red Rooster said...

You're most welcome Smokey, Motown Fats, Daba, Bluesercher and Juan Manuel Muñoz, glad you guys enjoyed the post. And I'm sure that concert with Big Pete that you went to was a great one Fanz. Thank you all for your comments, they are appreciated.

collective cy said...

Thanks for this one as well.

Red Rooster said...

You're most welcome Collective Cy, glad you enjoyed the post. Thank you for your comment, it's appreciated.