Album:
Comin' Home
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 62:07
Size: 142.2 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front
[4:14] 1. I Just Want To Make Love To You
[4:19] 2. Payback's A Bitch
[4:21] 3. Mark's Boogie
[4:11] 4. I Got To Know You
[6:07] 5. Soledad
[5:24] 6. Live Snakes
[4:42] 7. Comin' Home
[4:50] 8. Voodoo Woman
[3:59] 9. Please Don't Tell
[3:36] 10. Girl Closest To Me
[3:41] 11. I Ain't Done Wrong
[6:35] 12. Maniac
[6:03] 13. Under My Breath
Created as a way to preserve and respect the great music of the British Blues Boom era of the Sixties, Mark Doyle & The Maniacs is the brainchild of guitarist/producer Mark Doyle. Signed to RCA in the early ‘70s with his first band, Jukin’ Bone (who played their own brand of fiery, Anglophilic blues rock), Mark has gone on to record and tour with artists as varied as Meat Loaf, Bryan Adams, Judy Collins, Leo Sayer, and Hall & Oates.
In describing the impetus for making their first record, “Shake ‘Em On Down”, Mark explains: “Old heroes die hard, and these were mine back when I was a teenager and first started playing the electric guitar. I’m sure Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Kim Simmonds had their own heroes – “authentic” blues men like B. B., Albert, and Freddie King, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin and Buddy Guy, but I did not yet know of them, and only discovered them translated and morphed through the brilliant playing of those four English kids.”
None of this would mean anything without a killer, hand-picked band to lay the music down “just as those guys had to do it: live in the studio.” In describing his “posse of energetic, passionate and similarly reverent bandmates”, Doyle says: “I couldn’t have surrounded myself with a better band. Jack “Penetrator” Lipton handles the punk snarl of those “garage blues” days better than anybody I know; Terry Quill rose to the occasion when I called him and asked him to dust off his old harps, that I was looking for Brian Jones and Keith Relf rather than Paul Butterfield. Less of a surprise is Terry’s always great guitar playing. Michael P. Ryan shares the lead vocals with Jack, and plays excellent bass throughout. I really enjoyed watching him discover the British Blues from our era. And then there’s the incomparable Frank DeFonda, who really is the engine that propels all of this along. And kudos to Jocko, the “6th Maniac”, for immersing himself in the whole ethos of the original versions and bringing his engineering and mixing chops to the table.”
“Shake ‘Em On Down” took you on a wild ride through Them’s “Mystic Eyes” and then went on to cover The Yardbirds, Fleetwood Mac, Savoy Brown, and John Mayall, ending with Robin Trower and one original song, “New Set of Blues.” The brand new disc, “Comin’ Home”, features nine original songs written by Mark and various other combinations of the Maniacs. “We were intent on making the music of the British Blues Boom era a living thing, rather than a museum piece,” Doyle says. “The new songs we’ve written manage to evoke the spirit of the era while remaining contemporary. And we still went for capturing lightning in a bottle by recording the album as live as possible. The difference is that we’re now an actual working band that played the songs in front of audiences over the year between the two albums.”
So here are Mark Doyle & The Maniacs, who on their second release are “Comin’ Home” to the British Blues, with a whole new twist.
Comin' Home
Album:
Pushin'
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 43:36
Size: 99.8 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front
[3:23] 1. Rooster In The Henhouse
[4:20] 2. I'm Your Witchdoctor
[4:47] 3. Palace Of The King
[5:55] 4. Blues For Ronnie
[4:57] 5. Pushin'
[5:42] 6. Nightcrawler
[3:11] 7. Trials And Tribulations
[5:13] 8. Love's Curse
[6:04] 9. Gypsy Rider
Mark Doyle has had an interesting and varied career in the music business. Bitten by the British Blues bug in the late 60's, his first band, Jukin' Bone, was signed to RCA when Mark was still in his late 'teens. Co-founded by Mark and longtime partner Joe Whiting (now with Savoy Brown), the band went on to make two obscure albums hailed by Creem Magazine as seminal classics of early '70's blues rock. They also deepened their first-hand blues experience by touring with Freddie King, Leon Russell, Z.Z. Top, and The Allman Brothers.
After the breakup of Jukin' Bone in 1973, Mark forged a career as a sought after recording/touring musician and producer, working with some of the biggest names in the business, amassing gold and platinum records and a disco-graphy of over 70 albums (please visit Mark's website for the complete discography). Most recently Mark collab-orated with British Blues legend Kim Simmonds on an acoustic blues album called "Out Of The Blue." Mark formed his own band, Mark Doyle and The Maniacs, in 2009 and released "Shake 'Em On Down: A Salute to the British Blues Boom of the 60's" in that year.2010 saw the release of the group's second album, "Comin' Home", with an emphasis on original material as well as a few well-chosen covers from the British Blues era. Both albums won the SAMMY Award for Best Blues CD in 2010 and 2011, respectively, as well as rave reviews in magazines like Vintage Guitar in the States and Blues Matters in England.
After two albums that paid homage to the British Blues Boom of the Sixties, and specifically Doyle's heroes Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Peter Green and Kim Simmonds, the release of "Pushin'" shows The Maniacs standing on their own feet with a bluesy, rockin' and (dare we say it) mature release of mostly original music. Included along with the six brand new Doyle originals is a stunning version of Jukin' Bone's "Nightcrawler", a turbo-charged version of Freddie King's "Palace of the King" and a final tip of the hat to British Blues godfather John Mayall with "I'm Your Witchdoctor." The current touring and recording lineup is Mark Doyle - guitar and vocals; Frank DeFonda - drums; Joel Kane - guitar, bass and vocals; and Phil Broikos - bass, keyboards, guitar, trombone, harmonica and vocals.
Pushin'
