Ash Grunwald - Now

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2015
Time: 47:45
Size: 112,9 MB
Label: Delta Grooves
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. River - 3:56
 2. It Don't Belong To You - 3:55
 3. Evening - 4:35
 4. Jack - 4:30
 5. Open Country - 4:47
 6. In The Middle - 4:03
 7. The Worst Crimes Are Legal - 4:45
 8. Second Guess - 4:27
 9. Ramblin - 4:22
10. Send Me - 2:42
11. The Least Among Us - 5:38

They don't come much more gnarly sounding than Grunwald (think Otis Taylor), when it comes to singing the blues.
With a guitar drenched in reverb and some sort of studio trickery (bags of echo and vocoder methinks), it immediately reminded me of the remixed R.L. Burnside disc A Bothered Mind (2004) and the cross-over potential that disc had.
Aimed squarely at the blues market that think it's simply 12 bars and an electric guitar, Grunwald wants you on the dancefloor screamin' shoutin' and crunching the beats underfoot. I love, even though at parts it's overblown, the sheer swagger of this disc.  It's got a big heart mixed into a big sound.
What came as a surprise thought, is this is just a three-piece: Grunwald voice and guitar, Ian Peres' keyboards and a six-armed drummer in Pete Wilkins.
Next, leaps out simply because it is Grunwald alone (just like Ramblin' Man on his last album with the reverb button on 11), then it's back to the full tilt boogie that will draw comparisons to the recent Gary Clark Jr album.

Now