Checkerboard Lounge - Roller Coaster

Album: Roller Coaster
Size: 146,3 MB
Time: 63:31
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Blues/Soul/Funk/Rock mix
Art: Front

1. Roller Coaster (3:22)
2. Double Standard (3:35)
3. King Of Nothin' (6:13)
4. Killing Time (3:57)
5. Came To Get My Heart Back (6:17)
6. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (7:32)
7. Uncivil Compliance (3:05)
8. Cry No More (6:42)
9. Same Old Fool (4:12)
10. Prodigal Man (18:31)

Roller Coaster is the new album from revered Melbourne blues institution Checkerboard Lounge, produced by equally revered entity Jeff Lang. The group’s last album, Sun Sessions, won four of six available awards at the Melbourne Blues Awards and Best Blues Album at the Music Victoria Awards in 2022. It was in Rhythms magazines Top 10 Albums of the Year, and it spent more than a year on the Australian Blues & Roots Airplay chart, including multiple months at #1.

The new album is the first to feature the band’s current line-up, which features monster muso Zoë Frater on bass alongside group founder Carl Pannuzzo on vocals and drums, Shannon Bourne on guitars and Tim Neal on Hammond organ and alto saxophone. World-class musicianship, unbridled passion inspired by the moment and an almost telepathic ability to create; Checkerboard Lounge are a powerhouse to be reckoned with.

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Checkerboard Lounge - Sun Sessions

Size: 145.2 MB
Time: 62:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Blues Soul
Art: Front

01. Amazing Grace ( 6:22)
02. Bottle Your Love ( 4:41)
03. I Can't Try ( 5:24)
04. You Got A Way On You ( 3:47)
05. Hook, Line And Sinker ( 5:45)
06. It Hurts Me Too ( 4:22)
07. Think Twice ( 8:09)
08. Money Man ( 4:05)
09. Cry To Me ( 5:04)
10. Seven Day Fool ( 5:02)
11. I'd Rather Go Blind (10:11)

Singing drummer Carl Pannuzzo, guitar master Shannon Bourne, Hammond virtuoso Tim Neal and inimitable bassist Amos Sheehan curate shows fitting to events and venues, no two shows being the same, but each unforgettable live experiences, from standing ovations at Wangaratta Jazz Festival to crammed inner Melbourne pubs.

Semi-finalists at the 2020 International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN, recording at the legendary SUN Studio and a new incredible live album to launch, word keeps spreading about this formidable act.

Just before the pandemic hit globally, Australia’s hottest act on the blues and roots scene, scored a recording session at the legendary SUN Studio, home to Howlin’ Wolf, B.B.King, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis and more. During a visit to the museum, Tim Neal (keys) sat at Jerry Lee Lewis’ piano and pricked up the ears of the studio engineer who invited the band to record in the hallowed studio. A 5-hour late night session saw the band lay down 12 incredible tracks: blues and soul originals, rare covers and a few golden choices the band had never played before, inspired by the history of the studio that seeded so many pivotal careers. You can even hear in a quiet brooding moment of a spontaneous version of ‘It Hurts me Too’, a ghost walk in and close a door, behind which there was no one.The electricity was alive that night and all was etched to tape.

Sun Sessions MP3
Sun Sessions FLAC

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