Blues In The Box “Solo Y Maljuntado”

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    Artista / Grupo: Blues In The Box

    Álbum: Solo Y Maljuntado

    Discográfica: Self Production

    Año publicación: 2015

    Fecha crítica: 6/2016

    Valoración: VERY GOOD

It is noticeable that a musician or a band living in Spain, in this case in Barcelona, rescue a work song like it was performed by those field hollers in the south of the USA during nineteenth and early twentieth centuries However, we are greatly surprised when we see Leo Cayuela, ‘alma mater’ of this project, who also plays self made cigar box guitar and cigar box dobro, dares to open this album with Back To Brown by Furry Lewis, a song belonging to the just mentioned style It is also remarkable his version of the traditional John The Revelator, which was recorded for the first time by gospel group Bessemer Sunset Four in 1928, where Leo is supported by the sweet voice of Annie Baggs Cayuela’s aim is to bring us those years in which Alan Lomax, Paul Oliver or Samuel Charters travelled around the countryside of southern USA states looking for unknown bluesmen to record and interview As Cayuela says, there was a time where guitar was played with a coin instead a pick or a knife was used instead a slide and a cigar box and some strings were enough to play soulful heartbreaking real blues This album becomes a tribute to the genuine black music of those unforgettable times



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