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Showing posts with label Little G Weevil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Little G Weevil. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2013

VizzTone Label Group artist: Little G Weevil - Moving - New Release Review

I just received the newest release, Moving, from Little G Weevil and it's quite good! G grew up in Hungary, seaming an odd place to learn the "real" blues but after moving to Alabama, Memphis and London now permanently calling Atlanta his home, G understands what the real blues is all about. Opening with Shook It and Broke It, G sets the table in rural style on an acoustic guitar with alternating thumb rhythm and a super blues voice. On My Way To Memphis is a bit uptempo and having the "call" of Mali music or John Lee Hooker. This is a really well written and performed track. Mean and Dirty is a bit more casual and laid back with Maurice Nazzaro on harp and Goodhue on drums. Boogie Through My Troubles has a really strong rural blues sound where the resonator almost sounds like a banjo and percussion is a foot stomp. Very cool! Let Someone Else Do All The Work has a real cool slide part on it (as a rhythm backing) adding real dynamics to G's certain blues vocals. Deep Bow is another heavily African influenced track. I really love this primitive music and this is a very nice American style interpretation of early primitive blues. Advice is very close to mountain or bluegrass rooted music. Again with almost a banjo sound and foot stomp percussion, G translates American blues into true folk music. On the title track, Moving, a more polished and filled out band appears with Nazzaro on harp and Dustin Sergant on bass. On No Man In My Bed, G leads the way with an unconventional slide (resonator) guitar riff but keeping a high energy tempo throughout. Another track with definite mountain roots is Fastest Man, with it's very simple instrumentation. G carries this track based on the pace of the track, his own guitar rhythm and his strong vocals. Highly unusual in today's electronic world. Traditional track let's Talk It Over, is very powerful with only G's strong vocals and a very simple guitar accompaniment. Excellent! Wrapping up this excellent release is an uptempo boogie, Swing In The Middle, again in the style of early JL Hooker in composition. There is hardly a higher compliment I can place on a musician than to say their original compositions resemble Hooker as I believe him to be one of the absolute best. This track with swift harp additions and super pace make this one of many standout tracks on this wealthy release. If you love the "real" blues then this is a release that you must check out.  

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Although not a track from the new release, a good example of the purity and simplicity of G's work.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

New CD from 2013 IBC winner Little G Weevil

BRAND NEW FROM THE VIZZTONE LABEL GROUP

NEW CD AVAILABLE NOW!


VizzTone proudly welcomes
2013 IBC Solo/Duo Winner
Little G Weevil!

FREE TRACK DOWNLOAD!
To download the track "On My Way To Memphis"
and get a special discount offer from the VizzTone store

LITTLE G WEEVIL is an international Bluesman, an award-winning Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, and one of the most deeply moving entertainers on the American Roots and Blues scene today.  This high energy and very laid back performer sings his heart out and tells his real life stories in a way that is impossible to forget.

Growing up in Budapest, Hungary, at a time when the changing political landscape brought the Blues flooding into Eastern Europe, Little G fell in love with American Blues records, and soon became a successful Blues artist in his own country. 

He felt the call of the American South and moved to the United States, living first in Alabama, then moving to Memphis, Tennessee, where he spent a year washing dishes and performing on Beale Street, and finally settling in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Little G has been making records in Europe and the United States since 2001 — His 2012 release, "The Teaser" was ranked Top 10 Best Blues Album of the Year by the elite Mojo Magazine.  After returning to Memphis to win first place as a solo artist at the 2013 International Blues Challenge, he decided it was time to record "MOVING" – a beautifully ambient album of deep, all-acoustic Blues.
"Little G Weevil somehow delivers intact the spirit and sound of Blues legends from 80 years ago...  A new Blues star is here, he proves it."
          – Bob Margolin

“John Lee Hooker and his blues was for me, like my grandfather and the tales he used to tell. When I first heard the songs Hobo Blues and Never Get Out of These Blues Alive, I thought to myself, God, I am part of this, I feel it, I belong to this.”
          – Little G Weevil

THANKS FOR LISTENING, WE HOPE YOU LOVE THIS RECORD AS MUCH AS WE DO!


 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

mmm, mmm, mmMemphis! ... and coming soon!

BRAND NEW FROM THE VIZZTONE LABEL GROUP
mmm, mmm, mmMemphis! 
and coming soon....

Hey All Y'all (note the vernacular, we're getting in the mood) —

Lots of VizzTone folks are heading to Memphis this week, so we wanted to take this opportunity to give one more shout out to our BMA nominees, talk about our Big Blues Party on Beale, and brag about our new and upcoming releases!

So first of all, one more big CONGRATS and GOOD LUCK to the Blues Music Awards nominees from our VizzTone/Vizzable family:


OUR NOMINEES...

Ann Rabson w/Bob Margolin / Not Alone - Acoustic Blues Album
Bob Margolin- Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year
Phantom Blues Band - Blues Band of the Year
Tony Braunagel (Phantom Blues Band, Robert Cray Band) - Drums
Mike Finnigan (Phantom Blues Band) - Pinetop Perkins Piano Player
Diunna Greenleaf (Vizzable Music Artist) - Koko Taylor Award

      
Click the CD to listen or buy at VizzTone.com   ;-)
For those of you who'll be coming to Memphis, we can't wait to see you there!  And, if you're sticking around town for the Friday night AFTER the Awards, c'mon down to our amazing VizzTone Blues Party On Beale!  Check it out:


See what I'm sayin'??  This is gonna be one party that is NOT TO BE MISSED!

Lately we've been bragging about our BRAND NEW releases -
Click the album covers to take a listen, and you'll understand why!

         

       

...and we'll tell you more about these soon (trust us on that!),
but here's a quick peek at what's COMING VERY SOON....



Coming May 14!

RUFF KUTT BLUES BAND
THAT'S WHEN THE BLUES BEGINS

Deep Texas Blues featuring Zac Harmon, Finis Tasby, Anson Funderburgh, and James Goode.


Coming June 25

CANDYE KANE
COMING OUT SWINGIN'
featuring LAURA CHAVEZ

We are SO PROUD to welcome our good friends Candye Kane and Laura Chavez to the family!




Coming soon...

LITTLE G WEEVIL
MOVING

• 2013 International Blues Challenge winner


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