Time: 44:09
Size: 101.1 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front
[4:16] 1. Man Of The Moment
[5:29] 2. Drain The Bottle Dry
[4:25] 3. Don't Mess With Mr. Blues
[6:35] 4. Afraid Of The Light
[3:42] 5. New Car Blues
[5:40] 6. Sad Song
[3:33] 7. Bourbon, Whiskey & Blues
[5:01] 8. Don't Talk To Me About Love
[5:25] 9. The Valleys Shuffle
Call me Albert was formed in May 2003 as a “scratch band” from a couple of duo’s, ‘The Unrehearsed’ and ‘Snowy and Gridiron’, plus a spare drummer, Paul Worthington. The first gig was a charity gig—the “In the Pink” canal walk for breast cancer. The gig was a success and the band kept going. Initially Albert played covers, mainly blues and blues-rock. Gigs came by word of mouth mainly and Albert gigs seemed to be like London busses...none for a few weeks then 3 all at once! The initial members of Albert were:
Rob Llewellyn-Feasey-Bass, 12-String, Vocals and Real ale pump!; Paul Worthington-Drums and unfortunately backing vocals; Marcus Snow-Lead Guitar, backing vocals; Rich Carter-Evans-Growl, rhythm guitar, harp, bass. This line up was soon augmented by a backing singer, Heidi, who gigged with Albert for a few years, with such a superb blues voice she quickly moved from only backing vocals to sharing the lead vocal duties. A further addition to the line up followed in the form of Martin Thomas playing percussion and all things bangy and shaky.
To enable the band to ‘hassle’ for more gigs a CD was needed so Albert hot footed it to Dylan Fowler’s recording studio, studio felin fach, and in one day, recording live put down seven tracks, one original and six covers! The CD was used to show what Albert could do to potential venues...much to Albert’s surprise lots of people wanted to buy a copy and one of the favourite tracks was Albert’s own, ‘New Car Blues’.
Rob Llewellyn-Feasey-Bass, 12-String, Vocals and Real ale pump!; Paul Worthington-Drums and unfortunately backing vocals; Marcus Snow-Lead Guitar, backing vocals; Rich Carter-Evans-Growl, rhythm guitar, harp, bass. This line up was soon augmented by a backing singer, Heidi, who gigged with Albert for a few years, with such a superb blues voice she quickly moved from only backing vocals to sharing the lead vocal duties. A further addition to the line up followed in the form of Martin Thomas playing percussion and all things bangy and shaky.
To enable the band to ‘hassle’ for more gigs a CD was needed so Albert hot footed it to Dylan Fowler’s recording studio, studio felin fach, and in one day, recording live put down seven tracks, one original and six covers! The CD was used to show what Albert could do to potential venues...much to Albert’s surprise lots of people wanted to buy a copy and one of the favourite tracks was Albert’s own, ‘New Car Blues’.
Keep Hanging On... (Almost Live!)