It's a good
long while since we've covered a blues artist/band here at ROCKWIRED
and we couldn't think of a better way to get our
groove back on than with the Austin, Texas based trio LAZY J
AND THE DIRTY SHUFFLE who have jsut released their latest
self titled EP a whopping seven years after the release of their 2008
debut album BONE TO PICK. Front man and guitarist J GROVER
takes centerstage on the reggafied first single TIL THE DEVIL
KNOWS YOUR DEAD (recalling early J GEILS BAND) and the ballad
LETS LET LOVE. As a lead guitar player he truly
shines on the instrumental DOUBLE DOWN BOOGIE and the band proves that
they ain't slouches.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Rockwired Radio Profiles #547 - Piqued Jacks
We first became
acquainted with PIQUED JACKS in the middle of 2014 when they had
released their two singles UPTURNED PERSPECTIVES and NO BAZOOKA. As you
can glean from the titles of these tracks the band had a little
something different to offer from the rest of the current indie rock
fair. Adding to their differentiation was the fact that they were
strangers in a strange land. Hailing from Tuscany, Italy the band sought
out a strange sort of haven in Austin, Texas where the band's slightly
left of center approach has earned them a nice little following in that
town. So when we received news of the band's new EP CLIMB LIKE IVY DOES
we were surprised tohear that they had gone back to Italy to record
this album. CLIMB LIKE IVY DOES is a seven song EP with some epic and
transcendant moments such as the slamming opening track REIGN OF CLOUDS,
the insistent SHYEST KINDRED SPIRIT and the EP's true gem HOME IS
FOREVER - a track teaming with more passion and yearning than that
album U2 wanted to inflict iTUNES users with sometime last year. Tuscany
Italy and Austin Texas are getting way too small for these lads.
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