Showing posts with label T. Rogers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label T. Rogers. Show all posts

Friday, May 3, 2024

Son Henry & T. Rogers - Grace

Size: 96.6 MB
Time: 42:04
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2024
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Grace (4:16)
02. Josie (4:27)
03. Ribbon Of Tar (4:11)
04. Waiting On A Sign (4:59)
05. Painted Windows (2:33)
06. Looking At Trouble (3:11)
07. Down Hard (2:07)
08. It Ain't You (3:44)
09. Shame Shame Shame (3:33)
10. Three Words (5:56)
11. Better Man (3:01)

Son Henry is an award-winning singer/songwriter and lap steel guitarist based in New York State. If Jason Isbell, Chris Stapleton, and Robert Johnson met in a bar and decided to have a monster jam, you’d get a sound like Son Henry's. His raw yet melodic storytelling style reflects his love of Roots, Blues, and Vintage Country music. Son sings and performs covers and original material on the guitar, lap steel, dobro, and slide guitar as either a solo artist or as a lead in bands with long-term collaborators in the UK, US, and Eastern Europe.

Over his 30-year career, his style has evolved from pure Blues to Country Blues, to a more nuanced combination of Roots, Blues, and Americana. He has received two British Blues Awards, released four albums, and has played in multiple venues and festivals across the US and Europe.

Son is a native Rochesterian who spent his teens playing the guitar in the basement and making weekly pilgrimages on the bus to House of Guitars and the Record Archives. Life and work took him to Dallas, Texas, where he found himself playing alongside Texas Blues legends Mike Morgan, Tyrone Starks, Buddy Miles, and Sam Meyers. In the late 90’s, he moved north to Alaska and spent the next 10 years playing the rough-and-tumble bars and festivals across the last frontier, releasing his first two albums, Glenn Highway Blues and Heartache and Trouble, and learning to play the lap steel and dobro, perfecting his fingerpicking style, and honing his vocals. It’s cold. And dark. And there’s not a lot to do…

In 2005, Son moved to Scotland and quickly became a favorite at the Roots music clubs, bars, and festivals across the UK and Europe - places like the Crawdaddy, Redcar and the Red Lion in the UK and Festivals including the Orkney, Arbroath, Dundee, and Burnley Mechanics Festivals (UK), Gaastroblues (Hungary), Augustibluus (Estonia), Blues on the Green (US) and the Ft. Worth Blues Festival (US). He also released his third album, Long Way Home, won two British Blues Awards, and had two original tracks “Ribbon of Tar” and “Second Glance”, featured on the BBC.

A move back to Texas, this time to Houston, in 2012 led to a strong infusion of honky-tonk, twang, and red dirt swing into his music with the happy result of a truly unique and original sound. During his Houston years, he backed off from fronting a band, focusing instead on raising a family and songwriting, while performing as lead guitarist and string instrumentalist for Nashville recording artists Jon Stork and Blake Harlow.


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Friday, January 27, 2017

T. Rogers - Wear Your Soul

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 79:20
Size: 181.6 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[5:25] 1. New Home Blues
[5:10] 2. Everyday
[5:59] 3. The Way She Moves
[7:07] 4. Wear Your Soul
[3:38] 5. Up The Line
[5:55] 6. Walkin' Out Of Town
[8:15] 7. Asking You To Stay
[5:11] 8. You Can Love Yourself
[6:44] 9. Up Way Too High
[3:18] 10. Get Yourself Together
[9:07] 11. Liftin' Walk
[5:54] 12. Goin' Home Train
[7:32] 13. Wear Your Soul (Acoustic Take)

Béla Baráth : drums; Stewart Hay : harmonica; Ferci Kovács : guitar,vocal; Pál Sturmann : guitar; Zsolt Szatai : bass; Vince Széll : percussion.

T. Rogers is a 6-piece 'joy and blues' band based in Budapest, Hungary. Their name name is based on the Hungarian word "troger", meaning basically someone with a relaxed attitude towards life, who likes to enjoy each and every day. So don't ask to meet Mr. Rogers! The band formed in 2004, and play both both electric and acoustic blues from a wide variety of different influences, reflecting the diverse different musical tastes of each of the band members. Their style is described as joy-and-blues, and is tight, engaging, and exciting.

Since their first release in 2006 "Driven by the Blues" and their 2007 follow-up release "Wear Your Soul", the band has been met with critical acclaim, radio air time across Europe, and numerous blues festival and club appearances including Gouvy Jazz & Blues Festival in Belgium, Augustibluus Bluesfest in Estonia, Luxembourg Blues & Jazz Rallye, GastroBlues Festival in Hungary, Comblain Jazz Festival, Blues Rules Festival in Switzerland, Rootsway Blues Festival in Italy, PuistoBlues Festival in Finland, etc...

In April 2008 one of the new songs "Goin' Home Train" made it to the finals of the International Songwriting Competition and "Liftin' Walk" was also chosen for the semi-finals. The next year Goin' Home Train was finalist at the International Acoustic Music Awards. In May and June the band was backing the legendary Louisiana blues man Mem Shannon on his European tour.

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Saturday, November 9, 2013

T. ROGERS - Simple Life

Styles: Modern Electric & Acoustic Blues,
Recorded: 2012
Released: 2013
File: mp3 @ 320 k/s
Size: 121.76 MB
Time: 51:39
Art: Full

1. Far And Slow (5:35)
2. Weary Road (4:13)
3. Gotta Go (3:18)
4. Angelina (4:07)
5. Something Human (5:57)
6. The Regular's Blues (4:21)
7. Sun On My Back (5:05)
8. Mood For The Day (3:42)
9. It Hurts Me Too (4:58)
10. Sunshine Cold (4:02)
11. Simple Life (6:21)

Personnel: Ferci Kovacs - Guitar, Vocals
Pal Sturmann - Guitar
Stew Hay - Harmonica
Zsolt Szatai - Bass
Bela Barath - Drums
Vince Szeli - Percussion, Mandolin
with guest:
Keb'Mo' - Resophonic slide guitar, Vocals

Notes: T. Rogers is a 6-piece 'joy and blues' band based in Budapest, Hungary. Their name name is based on the Hungarian word "troger", meaning basically someone with a relaxed attitude towards life, who likes to enjoy each and every day. So don't ask to meet Mr. Rogers!
The band formed in 2004, and play both both electric and acoustic blues from a wide variety of different influences, reflecting the diverse different musical tastes of each of the band members. Their style is described as joy-and-blues, and is tight, engaging, and exciting.
This dynamic and talented group is renowned for their live performances, with intense solos and infectious energy gaining them a growing reputation across Europe.

As the European Blues is rightly claiming more attention on the scene, the Hungarian band T.Rogers comes out with a pretty good album, despite its apparently low-profile title.
The band is composed of Bela Barath (drums), Stewart Hay (harmonica), Ferci Kovacs (vocals and guitar), Pal Sturmann (guitar), Zsolt Szatai (bass) and Vince Szell (percussions and mandolin), Keb' Mo' featuring at the voice and the resophonic guitar.
Despite the name of the band coming from the Hungarian word "troger", meaning someone with a easy-going, downright attitude to life, our bluesmen boast a rare musical professionality and sound quality of their product. Their 9 original tunes (out of the 11 of the album) cannot be easily dismissed, and one can say that these guys know their chops by listening the intro of "Far and Slow". Far from being a pure Blues act, their music has been admittedly influenced by Rock and Country, as one can realise in "Gotta Go", whereas tracks like "Something Human" definitively have something of a ballad, but the acustic-electric guitar interplay, along with the ubiquitous yet not intrusive harmonica, make this album a damn good one. Even Ferci's singing (all in English), despite not being perfect, can definitively lecture many people about prononciation, and it works pretty well alongside Keb' Mo' in "Angelina", or in some classic tunes like "It Hurts Me Too", here rearranged in the T. Rogers way, or the classic "The Regular's Blues". Quite enjojable are also the acustic digression "Sun On My Back" and the American-style ballads "Simple Life" and "Sunshine Cold".
Definitely something to check out in order to overcome the borders which separate us from our neighbours.

                                                                   Simply Life
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