Bman's Blues Report

I just received a copy of the new self titled release from The No Refund Band . The release has something for everyone with stylistic vocals, tasty guitar work and danceable rhythms. The release opens with Blues Is My Business , a modern style blues with solid vocals and punctuating guitar riffs over a full horn section. Come Down Slow is a smooth Latin infused blues with some particularly slick guitar riffs. The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby gets a modern cover with nice horn solos and is different enough not to be recognized by casual listeners. Nice! Fall Again is a quiet acoustic ballad that could well appeal to the airplay market. Just To Be Blue comes straight at the blues with a slow swing style. Duet vocals between Ricky Jackson and Tommy Lee Bradley are smooth and Mike Crownover plays a tasty guitar solo on this track as well. Got Whiskey i s a heavy drum (Walter Cross) laden rocker with a heavy blues twist. Crownover shows yet another style of guitar in his bag of tricks. ...