October 25th, 2009 - Stormcellar blues festival

Messrs Michael Barry (harmonica) and Paul Read slide guitar have gathered the stories from their travels around the world to bring you some original modern blues tunes with influences dating back to the late 60s and 70s. Flavours of Texas and Ireland, and sonic references to the likes of the Allman Brothers, Canned Heat, Little Feat, as well as early bluesmen Little Walter and Howlin Wolf, are proudly evident in their collection of original songs performed on stage. They can slam out a stinging whiskey-soaked Chicago boogie then turn around caress you with a ballad that sounds like it has come from the Stones songbook.

The songs are further brought to life on stage with additional guitar magic from Michael Swamp-monster Rosenthal, along with the kickin rhythm section of Mark Doctor Time Graeber and new boy Jammin’ Jon Spacic (not pictured) on bass. The band are in the midst of recording their second album as well as a live-to-analogue-tape EP (Space Junk) but continue to gig relentlessly.