Robert Connely Farr & The Rebeltone Boys “Dirty South Blues”

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    Artista / Grupo: Robert Connely Farr & The Rebeltone Boys

    Álbum: Dirty South Blues

    Discográfica: Self Production

    Año publicación: 2018

    Fecha crítica: 1/2019

    Valoración: GOOD

Robert Connely Farr is a singer and songwriter born in Bolton, Mississippi, the home village of Charley Patton and The Mississippi Sheiks Robert now lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he works as architect and designer Musically speaking he plays there with his band Mississippi Live & the Dirty Dirty, although he regularly visits USA deep south to immerse himself in the most genuine music During one of these visits he met Jimmy Duck Holmes who made him discover a very particular blues style performed in Bentonia area that Holmes had learned directly from Henry Stuckey who in his turn discovered it from Skip James and Jack Owens The result was of this collaboration was a series of songs written by both musicians, which Connely presented to Canadian producer Leeroy Stagger He provided everything necessary to record those songs together with The Rebeltone Boys, a band who backed him to round up and album that includes ten songs, nine written by Robert Connellly Farr and Jimmy Duck Holmes that specially point the racism that still exists in the south, plus a version of the song Hard Time Killin Floor Blues coming from Skip James



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