Guy Verlinde “Rooted In The Blues”

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    Artista / Grupo: Guy Verlinde

    Álbum: Rooted In The Blues

    Discográfica: Dixiefrog

    Año publicación: 2016

    Fecha crítica: 10/2016

    Valoración: GREAT

With this new album, Belgian singer and guitarist, formerly known as Lightnin’ Guy and now as Guy Verlinde, comes back to his most bluesy origins, gathering some of his old songs not released in previous records, together with other new own ones Guy is a significant musician with clear ideas and a totally traditional blues concept although he displays and dresses it with an actual innovative wrapping The idea of recording this album came to his mind on a sleepless night Next morning he did a few telephone calls and, two days later without any rehearsal, all the musicians met in the recording studio to play thirteen excellent songs live in one room which were finished in a couple of days Besides Guy on guitar and voice, there were some of the best Belgium and The Netherlands musicians, like Richard Van Bergen on guitars, René Stock on bass, Frederik Van Den Berghe on drums, Steven Troch on harmonica and Patrick Cuyvers on keyboards, who completed in two cold days of January 2016 this magnificent album full of good blues, performed with a lot of swing, groove and an incredible personality



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