Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyres - Double Voodoo Blues (2010) [CD Rip]

Something triggered in Sweet Baby James when he heard Eric Clapton's song 'Cocaine' at age 15. He was playing a sound I had never heard before and it had me transfixed. I later discovered it was called the Blues, he says. James' debut album 'Rhythm n Blues' is a cornucopia of assorted blues styles played with an electric energy. There's delicate fingerpicking, growling slide guitar and sparse country blues. Their raw sound evokes wild nights at the traditional juke joints of America's south.

Sweet Baby James & Rob Eyers are a blues duo from Adelaide, Australia, made up of James Meston (guitar/vocals) and Rob Eyers (drums/percussion). Rhythms Magazine have described them as "fantastic, their two-piece guitar/drum combo outshoots The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Mess Hall, the Fumes, anyone you care to mention".

The Adelaide-based blues guitarist has shared the stage with blues-rocker Jeff Healy and Canadian blues queen Sue Foley. Rob Eyres, originally from London and now living in Adelaide, completes the duo on percussion. Audiences respond to us because its clear were doing what we naturally do best: playing the blues with obsession, says James.