Giles Robson - For Those Who Need the Blues (2016) FLAC

"For Those Who Need The Blues" features nine gloriously dirty, sweat-down-the-wall bar room blues tracks, uncontrived with absolutely no gimmicks. This is the realm of the twelve bar blues - blues in its most exquisite, raw and primal state. The album was recorded in the space of an afternoon completely live with no overdubs and all within one or two takes per track. The album feels how the blues should feel: spontaneous, full of attitude and grit, mightily groovy and is fronted by Robson's massive harp tone and soulful playing. Robson's day job is with The Dirty Aces, but needing a band at the Great British Rock & Blues festival in January 2016, and with insufficient time to rehearse a full Dirty Aces set, Robson decided to hit the ground running by playing the sort of powerful classic blues that has always been a deep passion. The band and the deeply blues orientated material he arranged proved such a success with the 1,800 strong audience that Robson instantly booked studio time to get it down on tape. Two weeks later and still fresh from their festival performance Robson and his newly forged band recorded these tracks. Echoing the classic sounds of The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Muddy Waters, The Red Devils and Little Walter this truly is an album, as the title suggests, "For Those Who Need The Blues".