Singer, guitarist and songwriter Dicky James and his Blue Flames offer us a genuine blues catarsis in their second album The musicians’ aim is to collect the testament and essence of the original most classic blues, giving them their special character and personality but, at the same time, preserving the true and original sound, despite including some modern and simple arrangements, very much in fashion now Besides Dicky James on vocals and guitar, you will also find The Blue Flames, Bob ‘Icehouse’ Freeze harmonica, Johnny ‘Lightning Boy’ Beeson, Hamond B-3, Mark ‘P Funk’ Ford bass and Will Cox drums, together with a horn section in some cuts All together began their career in 2008 and, the following year, they recorded the excellent album The Blues Taste Good This new one, Hard Rain, includes nine original songs and two covers they want to dedicate to the memory of the great and venerable Pinetop Perkins who passed away some time ago In short words, you will find along the whole cd, a true musical festival of shuffles, jump blues and even a good dose of ‘horn-driven funk’ with the most terrific bright joyful horn section you can imagine