Kevin Burt - Stone Crazy - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Iowa Blues Hall of Fame inductee, Blues Music Award winner & former International Blues Challenge champion Kevin Burt delivers a powerful and deeply human statement with This Trip, his fifth studio album. Recorded in Waterloo, Iowa and produced by Michael Cutsforth, This Trip strips away distractions and places the focus exactly where it belongs on the stories, the voice, and the humanity behind them.

He plays guitar like a demon, wears natty threads, sings catchy tunes and mutters to himself. The idiosyncratic C.W. Stone king is a true entertainer who relies on musicianship stagecraft and performance to invoke the spirit of the 1920's deep south blues in his original hokum style. Set in an imaginary old-time southern town populated with singing dodo birds, sinister handymen, broken-hearted street singers and old testament field hollerers, the album also features c.w.'s backing band the primitive horn orchestra on a number of tunes. Produced by j. Walker (machine translations) and containing 11 of c.w.'s original numbers, the album is a unique blend of old time blues and jazz that sounds like it was recorded in the 1920's. This is one of the most acclaimed Australian albums of the last few years... best blues & roots album (air awards) and album of the year (abc radio national breakfast show 2006)! Cw is such a singular talent that his audience has expanded beyond blues and jazz listeners into mainstream and alternative audiences who have simply never heard anything like him.

Few musicians can captivate with just their voice and guitar, but Keb' Mo' pulls it off on his fifth InchThe DoorInch. It's as if DNA from Robert Johnson and James Taylor fused inside this singer-songwriter, simply known as Kevin Moore when he played guitar with Papa John Creach back in the '70s. At 49 years old, Keb' Mo' has paid his dues. More importantly, he's a compelling singer, a versatile string man, and a fine songwriter. He's also one of the few best-selling artists today whose music genuinely deserves a big audience. His remake of the Elmore James' classic InchIt Hurts Me Too.Inch It's nearly impossible to make a synthesizer work in a Blues context, but Keb' Mo' finds a way on this track. On gentle numbers like InchAnywayInch and sophisticated compositions such as the jazzy InchIt's All Coming Back,Inch Keb' Mo' also extends himself well beyond the Blues.