![]() Brent Parkin is still pretty great) and the record sounds killer (recorded in Winnipeg at Len Milne's Bedside studios). Jason Nowicki is the deepest blues guitar player this country has ever heard (ok. Canada has a blues/rock and roll (no, not Bloozehammer) band that can hold it's own with the best of the best and they have finally made a record that might reignite the faithful. ![]() Some of you think you don't like the blues but you like the White Stripes and the Black Keys. Some of you hear old ZZ Top or Houndog Taylor, or Howlin' Wolf or Magic Slim. **** (4 Stars) DOWNLOAD THIS: Smokes and Chicken - John Kendle Ok people. And, of course, the grin and wink of a survivor. It's a stunning piece of work, delivered with requisite anguish. The premise is almost comic, until the tune picks up intensity and Nowicki's refrain of, 'Get the gun outta my face, I spent my money on smokes and chicken,' becomes an aggrieved howl. To the backing of a rollicking shuffle, Smokes and Chicken is a talking blues tale of two small-time, strong-arm robberies, one downtown and one in Transcona. Among these 10 bloozy tracks on the vagaries of love, travel and getting paid, the trio offer up a tune that can proudly take it's place alongside One Great City as a quintessential Winnipeg song. Can't be keen observers of life and it's foibles. Fronted by guitarist extraordinaire Jay Nowicki, the Winnipeg trio (rounded out by drummer Ken McMahon and rotating bassists John Scoles and Ryan Menard) is a meat-and-potatoes, blues-based roadhouse band that knows full well that kick-over-the table, full-tilt boogie is the perfect soundtrack for release at the end of a day. ![]() Blue Boogie Winnipeg Free Press review: BLUES The Perpetrators Stick 'Em Up (Independent) Just when it looked as if popular music was getting a little too serious - what with it's endless debates about the sexuality of Miley and Robin or the sincerity of Kanye and Jay Z (all of which are necessary, but also kind of exhausting) - along come the Perpetrators to remind us that this music thing is supposed to be fun, damn it. A greasy and dirty blues album that will without doubt please tons of people! A simply must have album. "I must be Crazy" veers towards the blues sound of the "Alabama Shakes" and on closing track "Take You On" the opening riff takes me immediately to the sound of George Thorogood. Think Canned Heat! "Bad Man" is standard electric blues as is "Tried of Trying To Keep My cool". "Who's it gonna be" is one of the lesser interesting tunes on this album, but that's quickly forgottenonce the boogie sound of "Shake it" is set in. Blues track that makes us think on theJohn Spencer Blues Explosion. "Smokes 'n Chicken" is a hard pounding alt. The band delivers ten tracks full of dirty, gritty and greasy blues that is made especially for you! From leading track Sweetgrass"on they bring you steaming blues and blues-rock. On "Stick 'Em Up" the band has only one intention! To raise the souls of Muddy Waters or Hound Dog Taylor and they succeed in doing so. ![]() Having played tons of gigs as back-up band the time was there to throw in a recording of their own and boy are we lucky. WINNER OF THE 2014 WCMA BLUES RECORDING OF THE YEAR Billy Bop review, Belgium: 5 out of 5 stars Good blues can be found everywhere! The Perpetrators are hailing from Winnipeg, Canada and by all means, the blues is living there as well.
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