Time: 70:43
Size: 161.9 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front
[4:14] 1. Like It This Way
[5:20] 2. King Bee
[5:53] 3. Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
[8:16] 4. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
[6:32] 5. Higher Ground
[4:18] 6. Cocaine Blues
[2:56] 7. Crosstown Traffic
[6:02] 8. Soulshine
[5:09] 9. Whipping Post
[7:11] 10. The Weight
[7:22] 11. Foxy Lady
[7:23] 12. With A Little Help From My Friends
When you get right down to it... to the heart of what the blues are all about... Eric Clapton hit the nail on the head. “It was one man and his guitar versus the world,” he said. “It was one guy who was completely alone and had no options, no alternatives other than just to sing and play to ease his pains.” It doesn’t matter how the music has changed and charged its way around the world in the years since the first bluesmen arose a century back in the American south. It doesn’t matter how volume and fusion and international superstardom have shaped and shifted things around. The blues that Clapton plays today mean the same thing that Howlin’ Wolf was playing in the fifties, and Son House was playing in the thirties, and they’re the same as Tom Killner is playing today. The sound may change, and the delivery, too. But the blues will always be the blues. Tom Killner understood that before he even discovered that the music had a name.
He’s young by the standards of the bluesman archetype. Born in 1996, there are Oasis CDs that are older than him, and he grew up in a musical world formed not around the swagger of Robert Johnson, the anguish of Ma Rainey, the mystery of Geeshie Wylie, but the conveyor belt pop and talent show slop that permeated everything in early 21st century England. “I was originally drawn to the blues because nothing else really grabbed me,” Tom says. “My friends all listened to metal and pop, but I've never been one for following trends in music. The blues I love because of the raw power, and because of what it could make me feel. No other music did that for me.” Tom’s south Yorkshire hometown of Rotherham, is scarcely renowned as a hotbed of music, either, although the late Joe Cocker hailed from the just down the road in Sheffield, and it’s not so far to the Black Country either, where the British blues were smelted in the fiery forge of the island’s industrial heartland. That was the music that Tom’s father listened to; that was the music the young Tom grew up with. Clapton and Cream. Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. Primal Led Zeppelin, pioneering John Mayall. The genius Rory Gallagher. And then tracing back, following the line of descent that is pocked by rock’s own most bruising influences - Muddy Waters, Albert King, BB King... the blues!
He’s young by the standards of the bluesman archetype. Born in 1996, there are Oasis CDs that are older than him, and he grew up in a musical world formed not around the swagger of Robert Johnson, the anguish of Ma Rainey, the mystery of Geeshie Wylie, but the conveyor belt pop and talent show slop that permeated everything in early 21st century England. “I was originally drawn to the blues because nothing else really grabbed me,” Tom says. “My friends all listened to metal and pop, but I've never been one for following trends in music. The blues I love because of the raw power, and because of what it could make me feel. No other music did that for me.” Tom’s south Yorkshire hometown of Rotherham, is scarcely renowned as a hotbed of music, either, although the late Joe Cocker hailed from the just down the road in Sheffield, and it’s not so far to the Black Country either, where the British blues were smelted in the fiery forge of the island’s industrial heartland. That was the music that Tom’s father listened to; that was the music the young Tom grew up with. Clapton and Cream. Chicken Shack and Fleetwood Mac. Primal Led Zeppelin, pioneering John Mayall. The genius Rory Gallagher. And then tracing back, following the line of descent that is pocked by rock’s own most bruising influences - Muddy Waters, Albert King, BB King... the blues!
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