The Mysterious Wheels - Same Shoes New Blues

Album: Same Shoes New Blues
Size: 96,4 MB
Time: 41:35
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Blues, pub rock
Art: Front

1. Bloodhound (3:43)
2. Twenty Eight Days (3:21)
3. Weed Seed (3:30)
4. I Want To Tell You (4:35)
5. Laughing Moon (3:46)
6. Corncrake Blues (3:23)
7. Waiting Room (2:52)
8. Gloria's Blues (3:46)
9. I Wanted To Cry (3:31)
10. They Say Time Is A Healer (4:05)
11. Shite For Brains (4:58)

London band Mysterious Wheels have been rolling round the London pubs playing tight, authentic blues and R&B for 40 years now. But lead singer Andrew Ranken took rather a lot of time out for 35 of them to fulfil his other commitments playing drums for the Pogues and the hKippers. Back now with their second album Same Shoes New Blues which showcases the band on top form, featuring all original material. After a lengthy Covid induced lay off, the band are rehearsing with a view to playing live again ASAP! Dancing guaranteed.

Personnel: Andrew Ranken (vocals); Patmo Sheeran (guitar, backing vocals); Simon Korner (bass); Lou Salvoni (drums); Joe Korner (piano, organ, backing vocals).

Note: Andrew Ranken passed away February 26, 2026. R.I.P.

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The Mysterious Wheels - Bare Bones

Album: Bare Bones
Size: 86,1 MB
Time: 37:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Blues/R&B
Art: Front, back

1. Here Come The Killers (3:05)
2. Cubist Blues (3:17)
3. Glass Blues (3:38)
4. Flow (2:52)
5. Foolishness Like Rain (3:08)
6. The Brand (3:55)
7. Your Love Hit Me (3:37)
8. Take Me Down To Saint Joe's (3:44)
9. Emphysema Blues (3:16)
10. Strike Up The Band (3:27)
11. After We're Gone (3:05)

Mysterious Wheels have been playing tight, authentic blues and R&B for 40 years. Lead singer Andrew Ranken took a lot of time out for 35 of them to fulfil his commitments playing drums for the Pogues and the hKippers. The new album showcases the band on top form, featuring all original material. After a Covid induced lay off, the band look forward to playing live again ASAP! Dancing guaranteed.

Personnel: Andrew Ranken (vocals); Patmo Sheeran (guitar); Simon Korner (bass); Lou Salvoni (drums); Joe Korner (keyboards). Special guests: Dan Gale Hayes (trumpet); Nick Payne (saxophone, harmonica).

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The Mysterious Wheels - Reach Out Hold On

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:49
Size: 98.1 MB
Styles: Country-Soul-Blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:35] 1. Who's Been Talking
[2:59] 2. If I Had Possesion Over Judgement Day
[2:41] 3. Train Kept Rolling On
[2:42] 4. Four O'clock In The Morning
[2:45] 5. Everything Is Broken
[4:43] 6. Reach Out Hold On
[4:16] 7. Three Hundred Pounds Of Joy
[2:22] 8. Your Mind Is On Vacation
[2:24] 9. Tossin' And Turnin'
[4:07] 10. No Place To Go
[3:24] 11. Junco Partner
[2:07] 12. Amadie
[4:38] 13. Down By The Lagoon

The Mysterious Wheels – named by Andrew's young son who had an obsession with wheels – have been going in various forms and under various other names for over 30 years. Led by singer, songwriter, Pogues drummer, Andrew Ranken, they began as a busking band, playing in the portico of St James's Church in Covent Garden, just before the .area was developed into a shopping centre. A full drumkit, portable amps, sax, would be assembled on a Saturday and they would earn enough in an hour to go for a meal at the now sadly defunct Centrale cafe in Cambridge Circus. That was about 1981, the band at that time known as The Operation.

Andrew's success with the Pogues interrupted play for a while, but the group – smaller now, with Andrew, and brothers Joe and Simon Korner at its core – never went away, and soon reconvened, playing their favourite blues and r'n'b and country songs. The line-up shifted here and there, but when Tom Anthony – another Lewes emigrant and friend – joined the band, the rhythm section was complete. With Paul Seacroft now on guitar, and Dylan Bates on fiddle, the band played gigs across London, with a fairly regular stint upstairs at the Priory pub in Stockwell. In the past year, joined by guitarist John Roster replacing Paul Seacroft, and minus the fiddle, the band is increasingly busy, with a monthly residency in Stoke Newington, and gigs elsewhere.

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