Bullfrog Blues - The Russ Tippins Electric Band
The Russ Tippins Electric Band has been around since October 2009, initially starting off as a knock-about on the bar & club circuit in their native North-East. By Summer 2010, they'd cooked up enough ideas to go and make their own album at Newcastle’s Cluny Studios. Amazingly, the resulting ‘Electrickery’ CD made Classic Rock magazine’s ‘Album of the Month’ on it’s release, and has since earned them plaudits from blues-writers and broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic. 2011 saw them hit the road nationally playing gigs in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Nottingham Oxford, Hampshire & Gloucestershire acquiring hordes of new fans & friends along the way. During August of that year, they even managed to squeeze in a mini-tour of the U.S midwest after the CD got significant airplay on a number of Blues radio shows in Indiana, Missouri, & Nebraska. As a result, further live reviews followed & Russ even received a 1st-round nomination for a 2012 BMA in Memphis...