gilesrobson
11 posts
Jul 15, 2011
6:28 AM
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This is the review below and you can hear the harp led album at our website: www.gilesrobson-thedirtyaces.co.uk
RATING ****
When great blues harmonica players Paul Jones and Sugar Blue describe Giles Robson as one of the great contemporary harpists, you know he's a bit special. Even so, it still comes as a huge surprise to hear mainstream radio DJ Chris Evans rave about him and play Robson' "The Mighty Incinerator" on his breakfast show: prime time national radio is not UK blues music's usual stomping ground.
However, just why Robson is attracting so much attention is instantly clear from the muscular opening bars of that very same song kick-starting Robson and his cracking band The Dirty Ace's debut album Crooked Heart Of Mine.
Bringing a healthy dose of their onstage magic to the record's impressive thirteen tracks of storming blues originals, penned in the main by Robson and lead guitarist Filip Kozlowski, this is the real deal: a tightly fashioned exposition of classic, harp led Chicago Blues recalling not only the halcyon days of the UK's 60s blues boom but also the thrilling dynamism of early Dr Feelgood.
Blues fans old and new will relish the superb ensemble playing of Robson, Kozlowski, Ian Jennings (Bass) and Mike Hellier (Drums).
Colin Hall, Rock n Reel Magazine: http://www.rock-n-reel.co.uk/
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