Blues

Fiona Boyes, Mookie Brill, Rich Delgrosso – Live From Bluesville (2008)

2011-10-20T09:07:34Z

Fiona Boyes, Mookie Brill, Rich Delgrosso – Live From Bluesville 2008


01. Early In the Morning
02. Homegrown Sin						play
03. Hard To Live With
04. Smokestack Lightning
05. Easy Baby
06. Shotgun Blues
07. My Baby Left Me						play
08. Good Lord Made You So
09. Get Your Nose Outta My Bizness!
10. Mississippi Road
11. Two Legged Dog

Fion Boyes – guitar, vocals
Mookie Brill – double bass
Rich Delgrosso – mandolin, vocals

In blues & roots music there is a tantalizing tension between traditional structures and the continual reinvention that comes with each new generation of players. There are so many styles and histories from which to draw - and each player brings their own particular influences and sensibilities to their performance. In that spirit, 'live from bluesville' offers the listener an experience of respect for tradition and daring originality. Seasoned players and multi-award winning artists in their own right, fiona boyes, tom 'mookie' brill, and rich delgrosso, following a session on beale st. Memphis, during the 2007 blues music awards, decided to further explore the spaces where their respective musical influences and passions meet, and this album is the result. ---cduniverse.com

Playing amplified blues-rock has not been a problem for Fiona Boyes, but the flexible singer/guitarist is equally proficient when it comes to providing acoustic blues--and that is exactly what she does on LIVE FROM BLUESVILLE. In fact, Boyes plays acoustic blues exclusively on this 48-minute CD, which finds her forming an intimate trio with Tom "Mookie" Brill (lead vocals, acoustic bass, harmonica) and Rich DelGrosso (lead vocals, mandolin). Contrary to what the title suggests, this isn`t a live album in the conventional sense; LIVE FROM BLUESVILLE wasn`t recorded in a club or theater or in front of an audience, but rather in a Washington, D.C. studio in 2007. However, all the performances were recorded in real time--no overdubbing whatsoever--and the rugged spirit of acoustic country blues often prevails thanks to Boyes, Brill, and DelGrosso (who share the lead vocals, although Boyes` singing dominates the session). However, they don`t embrace any one type of acoustic country blues exclusively.

Mississippi Delta blues is part of the equation, but so are Texas blues and Louisiana blues. And occasionally, the album demonstrates that acoustic blues doesn`t necessarily mean country blues. Howlin` Wolf`s "Smokestack Lightning" is a Chess Records gem that blues connoisseurs closely identify with electric post-WWII Chicago blues, but the unplugged version offered by Boyes, Brill, and DelGrosso re-imagines the tune as acoustic blues from Chicago`s pre-WWII, pre-Chess, pre-Willie Dixon era. They also acknowledge the Windy City`s pre-Chess artists with inspired performances of Sonny Boy Williamson`s "Early in the Morning" and Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup`s "My Baby Left Me." Clearly, this trio is well aware of the fact that the blues were alive and well in Chicago long before the seminal Chess became so influential and helped pave the way for the creation of rock & roll. But whether the influences are rural or urban, LIVE FROM BLUESVILLE maintains a happily unplugged focus--and Boyes excels as both a singer and an acoustic guitarist. --- overstock.com

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Fiona Boyce – Gimme Some Sweet Jelly Roll (2003)

2011-10-19T08:31:04Z

Fiona Boyce – Gimme Some Sweet Jelly Roll (2003)


1. The Preacher
2. Devil Says
3. Ain’t No Jelly Roll In Heaven
4. In Love Again
5. Drink To Your Health
6. Harmonica Rag
7. When Did You Leave heaven
8. How’d You Want Your Business Done		play
9. Mess With Your Mama						play
10. It’s You
11. Catfish Fiesta
12. Down Home Gal
13. Young Rider Blues
14. Light Of The End Of The Road

Fiona Boyes – guitar, vocals
Chris Wilson – harmonica
Nick Charles – mandolin
Paula Dowse – drums, percussion
Alison Penny – piano
Kaz Dalla Rosa – harmonica
Rob Hornbuckle – double bass

Australian blues guitarist and singer Fiona Boyes soulful, authoritative style — brilliantly displayed on her current US release 'Blues Woman' — has earned Boyes unprecedented international recognition. For the past three years she’s been a final five nominee in the Memphis based Blues Music Awards, the only Australian ever to be nominated in these awards, which are widely recognised as the Grammies of the Blues. She received a “Contemporary Blues Album of the Year” nod in 2007 for her Yellow Dog debut, the electric 'Lucky 13'. The next year she garnered a ballot for “Contemporary Female Blues Artist of the Year.” In 2009 she received an “Acoustic Blues Album of the Year” nomination for the recording 'Live From Bluesville', which also won the Los Angeles based International Blues Critics Award for Best Live Album.

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Fiona Boyes – Blues In My Heart (2008)

2011-10-17T18:31:53Z

Fiona Boyes – Blues In My Heart (2000)


1	Blues in My Heart			
2	Pig Meat			
3	She Could Play That Thing			
4	I Let The Blues In			
5	Have Faith			
6	Honey You Can Take My Man			
7	My Say So						play			
8	Rowdy Blues			
9	Mean World			
10	Angel			
11	Two Legged Dog 
12	That Certain Something			
13	Hokum Rag						play			
14	Mercy			
15	Canned Heat			
16	Hotel Room

Fiona Boyes - Guitars, Vocals
and:
Pada Dowse - Percussion
Kaz Dalla Rosa - Harmonica
Gina Woods - Piano

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Fiona Boyes is the only Australian ever recognised by The Blues Foundation in Memphis, earning 8 Blues Music Awards nominations. She was the first woman and non-American to win the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Her international following has propelled her recordings to the top of blues charts.

Blues in My Heart is a remastered 20th Anniversary edition of her debut solo album, originally released in 2000 in Australia only. It includes Fiona’s diary style liner notes, photo memories and original folk art in a single CD package. Fiona is joined on this album by bandmates Karen (Kaz) Dalla Rosa (harmonica); Gina Woods (piano); and Paula Dowse (drums and percussion).

Quoting Fiona, “Blues in My Heart is an acoustic album of fingerpicking ragtime blues… the 16 tracks capture a unique performance moment, much like the historical recordings of the early players I so admire.” ---ccd.pl

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Fiona Boyes - Blues Woman (2009)

2009-10-28T11:03:27Z

Fiona Boyes - Blues Woman (2009)


01. Woman Ain't a Mule
02. Howlin' At Your Door
03. I Want To Go
04. Train to Hopesville 
05. Look Out Love!
06. Got My Eye on You
07. Do You Feel Better?
08. The Barrelhouse Funeral
09. Place of Milk and Honey
10. Waiting for Some Good News
11. Precious Time
12. Fishin' Hole
13. City Born Country Gal
14. Juke Joint on Moses Lane
15. Old Time Ways

Fiona Boyes (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar, resonator guitar); 
Pinetop Perkins (vocals, piano); 
Derek O'Brien (guitar); 
Kaz Kazanoff (harmonica, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, percussion); 
Marcia Ball, Nick Connolly (piano); 
Jimi Bott (drums, bongos, washboard, percussion).

A lot of interesting things have been written about Fiona Boyes, but one of the most attention-grabbing came from Midwest Record Recap -- which said that the Australian singer/guitarist "sounds like Bonnie Raitt's evil twin." While that comment was amusing, it was also insightful; Boyes does, in fact, have a strong Raitt influence (with elements of Marcia Ball and Rory Block), but her approach is noticeably darker, swampier, and more mysterious than Raitt's. Boyes is clearly her own person, and one of the great things about Blues Woman is the fact that she is so hard to pin down stylistically. The Aussie is blues-oriented -- that much is clear -- but during the course of this album, she embraces everything from electric Chicago blues on the Howlin' Wolf-influenced "Howlin' at Your Door" to early R&B (of the late-'40s/early-'50s variety) on "Do You Feel Better?" to blues-soul on "Train to Hopesville" and "Waiting for Some Good News." Although Boyes plays electric guitar on many of the tracks, she is also an excellent acoustic guitarist -- and her mastery of the acoustic guitar is evident on the Mississippi Delta blues-minded "Place of Milk and Honey." Texas blues is also part of the equation on this 2008 recording; so are Louisiana and Memphis blues. And through it all, Boyes never fails to be recognizable. For Boyes, having a blues orientation doesn't mean being a blues purist; she isn't someone who believes that everything on a blues-oriented album must adhere to a traditional 12-bar format or that blues artists must refrain from having rock or soul influences. But everything on Blues Woman boasts a wealth of blues feeling, and Boyes' love of variety yields consistently excellent results throughout this gem of an album. --- Alex Henderson, allmusic.com

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