Time: 44:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues, Rock, Soul
Art: Front
01. Trying To Get Close To You (4:19)
02. Walking With The Devil (3:31)
03. I Don’t Care (3:43)
04. There Is Hope (3:58)
05. I Love That Lady (3:12)
06. Silence (3:44)
07. After Midnight (4:44)
08. A Question Of Time (2:59)
09. Precious Lord (5:48)
10. Bring Me Home (3:39)
11. Sometimes (4:30)
Personnel:
Vocals and Guitars: Ronny Aagren.
Piano and Organ: Alexander Andre Johnsen.
Bass: Roar Paulsberg.
Drums: Ole-Christian Rydland
From Norway comes a very pleasant blues surprise in the form of this abum by Ronny Aagren & His Blues Gumbo. Although he will be regarded as a new talent for many, Aagren is no newcomer to blues. At the end of the eighties he played in The Basement Band and then again in the bands Larsens Last Chance, The Harmophonics, Get Rhythm and Solid Comfort.
The experience he has gained in these bands can be heard on his new album with his Blues Gumbo (Alexander Andre Johnson on piano and organ, Roar Paulsberg on bass and Ole-Christian Rydland on drums). Together they produce a sound on this album that combines the sounds of Duke Robillard from his early years with influences from soul music and from the musical centipede Ry Cooder.
The guitar sound of Ronny is hard, fierce and piercing and he is very raw on the slide guitar.
The album opens with the lazy swinging shuffle Trying To Get Close To You. Here you can already see that Ronny as a singer has the necessary soul. He is soldering here in a hard piercing way. Walking With The Devil is a sultry shuffle in which some New Orleans influences are. The sound of Robert Cray is also close. The pace is rising in the shuffle I Do not Care. An irresistible rocking song with jazzy piano. In the soul blues ballad There Is No Hope, the soul sound of the 60s is taken back, resulting in a delicious sharpener. Ronny lets his slide guitar roar raw in the pumping blues rocker I Love That Lady. The languid funky soul blues Silence is carried by Ronny's raw guitar riffs. The mid-tempo boogie After Midnight (no cover of the Eric Clapton song!) Has something Black Crowes-like. A funky sound with splitting hard guitar work by Ronny.
In the rousing rocker A Question Of Time, Ronny and his men mix the sound of Rockpile and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. A song with which every hall can be played flat!
Precious Lord is, it can not be otherwise with such a title, a gospel-like soulblues ballad with cutting Ry Cooder-like slide guitar. After the drum band has marched in, the New Orleans blues song Bring Me Home starts again with the cutting slide in the foreground.
The album ends with the slowblues Sometimes. A song with a huge amount of soul in which Ronny displays a piece of his skills on the guitar.
Ronny Aagren & His Blues Gumbo deliver with this album a great musical melting pot (gumbo) that many blues enthusiasts will have fun with. ~Peter Marinus (translated from dutch)
Vocals and Guitars: Ronny Aagren.
Piano and Organ: Alexander Andre Johnsen.
Bass: Roar Paulsberg.
Drums: Ole-Christian Rydland
From Norway comes a very pleasant blues surprise in the form of this abum by Ronny Aagren & His Blues Gumbo. Although he will be regarded as a new talent for many, Aagren is no newcomer to blues. At the end of the eighties he played in The Basement Band and then again in the bands Larsens Last Chance, The Harmophonics, Get Rhythm and Solid Comfort.
The experience he has gained in these bands can be heard on his new album with his Blues Gumbo (Alexander Andre Johnson on piano and organ, Roar Paulsberg on bass and Ole-Christian Rydland on drums). Together they produce a sound on this album that combines the sounds of Duke Robillard from his early years with influences from soul music and from the musical centipede Ry Cooder.
The guitar sound of Ronny is hard, fierce and piercing and he is very raw on the slide guitar.
The album opens with the lazy swinging shuffle Trying To Get Close To You. Here you can already see that Ronny as a singer has the necessary soul. He is soldering here in a hard piercing way. Walking With The Devil is a sultry shuffle in which some New Orleans influences are. The sound of Robert Cray is also close. The pace is rising in the shuffle I Do not Care. An irresistible rocking song with jazzy piano. In the soul blues ballad There Is No Hope, the soul sound of the 60s is taken back, resulting in a delicious sharpener. Ronny lets his slide guitar roar raw in the pumping blues rocker I Love That Lady. The languid funky soul blues Silence is carried by Ronny's raw guitar riffs. The mid-tempo boogie After Midnight (no cover of the Eric Clapton song!) Has something Black Crowes-like. A funky sound with splitting hard guitar work by Ronny.
In the rousing rocker A Question Of Time, Ronny and his men mix the sound of Rockpile and the Fabulous Thunderbirds. A song with which every hall can be played flat!
Precious Lord is, it can not be otherwise with such a title, a gospel-like soulblues ballad with cutting Ry Cooder-like slide guitar. After the drum band has marched in, the New Orleans blues song Bring Me Home starts again with the cutting slide in the foreground.
The album ends with the slowblues Sometimes. A song with a huge amount of soul in which Ronny displays a piece of his skills on the guitar.
Ronny Aagren & His Blues Gumbo deliver with this album a great musical melting pot (gumbo) that many blues enthusiasts will have fun with. ~Peter Marinus (translated from dutch)
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