The Big Blue House - Do It (2017)

Jimi Hendrix argued that the blues was easy to play but difficult to hear, and that the The Big Blue House seem to know better. In their first studio album Tuscan band brings eight dense passages of turns blues and tales of life, the best recipe for creating a good album like that.

The standard training with voice and guitar, bass, drums and keyboards allows a good stability in the sound and gives a blow and ongoing response, characteristic present in Mississippi blues and never abandoned. It is this clear distinction between rhythm section and section melodic album that gives the right sounds that allow us to speak of a well played blues and pleasant listening. The low Luke Bernetti fact remains always on tours not very original but it gives a solid base with the battery Andrea Berti with his constant shuffle and never too intrusive. Above this enviable pace breaks the guitar player and singer, Danilo Staglianò with its solos recovers a little vocal performance worthy of note. But the extra touch is given by Sandro Scarselli that passes from the keyboards sounds they make to regret the old Hammond to a jazz piano, helping one hand, the rhythm section and the other giving vitality to all the songs. All this makes "Do It" an authentic album, which pays homage to the genre to which these guys have dedicated themselves, without emulation runs: by good bluesmen have managed to convey a sense of nostalgic vintage reporting sounds that are anything but death. Just listen to the song that closes the album, the hymn to a lost love "This Is How I Feel", to return with the memory of past hours listening to T-Bone Walker.

In general, what you feel is well familiar, and that is why it is nice to hear what they have to say The Big Blue House, which does not have the presumption to make the blues label to define itself, but have the courage to really play it with body and soul, that is the only way in which you can play the blues. (Translated from Italian text.)