Reverend Freakchild “The Bodhisattva Blues”

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    Artista / Grupo: Reverend Freakchild

    Álbum: The Bodhisattva Blues

    Discográfica: Treated And Released / Blind Raccoon

    Año publicación: 2020

    Fecha crítica: 8/2020

    Valoración: VERY GOOD

Last century sixties and seventies years saw the greatest change of popular music in USA It started with the folk music revival at Greenwich Village that also reached acoustic blues, which was followed by the British invasion and ended with the psychedelic blues-rock in San Francisco, which was the birthplace of bands like Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Comander Cody & His Lost Planet, Lovin’ Spoonful or Big Joe & The Fish among others Musicians like Reverend Freakchild have been the heirs of all this musical and cultural background, he has captured in his different recordings Here comes his album number twelve which becomes a good example of what he calls ‘psychedelic country blues’ This time he has chosen a varied repertoire where he includes very personal versions of songs coming from Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, The Beatles, Reverend Gary Davis or Grateful Dead, as well as two traditional songs with Reverend’s own arrangements To give shape to the whole project, he has counted with the help and involvement of a good number of musicians who have immediately established a fruitful complicity like Melvin Seals on organ (Jerry Garcia Band), Mark Karan on guitar (Bob Weir), Chris Parker on drums (Bob Dylan, John Hammond Jr), Hugh Pool on harmonica or Robin Sylvester on bass, only to mention some of them who come all from Grateful Dead environment, who are willing to participate and contribute with their knowledge to enrich the recording From the top of his pulpit Reverend Freakchild preaches again a surprising sermon of blues and psychedelia, as he likes to deliver to all his faithful devoted followers



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