Claude Hay - Roller Coaster

Size: 101,0 MB
Time: 36:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Burn (3:27)
02. What It Takes (3:28)
03. Forget About Me (3:07)
04. Roller Coaster (3:22)
05. Hold You Up (2:39)
06. Love No More (3:47)
07. 241 (2:50)
08. Talk To The Hand (3:56)
09. Road Rage (1:29)
10. Winner (2:52)
11. Running (2:37)
12. Never Say Goodbye (2:39)

Claude Hay’s new album Rollercoaster is a corn dog wrapped in a funnel cake with a deep-fried Oreo for dessert. The album kicks off with “Burn,” a Cyclone of a blues-pop-rock beast, that doesn’t make you keep your arms and hands inside the vehicle. Soon to follow, “Rollercoaster,” the album’s namesake is a powerful slightly dark and anything but cliché, blues masterpiece.

In fact, the whole album while completely falling into the blues genre refuses to let itself be defined on such simple terms. Instead Hay writes short, witty songs, some up beat and in need of a Corkscrew, some downbeat and serious that take you on a Voyage, but always something new and fresh. Quite a few of the tracks have a hint (or more) of banjo, completely owning the gypsy vibe the album gives off.

My favorite track, “241,” is a Magnum of a song about a Bizarro shopping experience. Claude Hay is a Maverick on an Outlaw Run, a songwriter, doing his own thing and having great success at doing it.

Writing an album while spending the majority of your time touring Australia and Europe is a Goliath of a task, and a first time for Hay to be writing songs specifically for a full band performance instead of preparing for a solo tour. If you just close your eyes and listen, the album comes with a free Coney Island style freak show. Rollercoaster is a Steel Force to be reckoned with. The Review 9/10. ~by Jeremy Schantz

Roller Coaster

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Claude Hay - I Love Hate You

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 40:49
Size: 93.4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[2:59] 1. I Love Hate You
[3:08] 2. Good Times
[4:10] 3. Stone Face
[3:34] 4. Best Days
[2:58] 5. Where Have You Gone
[4:24] 6. Close
[2:54] 7. Narrow Mind
[2:46] 8. Blues Train
[3:13] 9. Don't Bring Me Down
[3:24] 10. Come Together
[3:36] 11. Hound
[3:38] 12. Turn It Up

Australian Claude Hay's album I Love Hate You follows up his critically acclaimed 2010 release Deep Fried Satisfied, a successful album for the indie artist worldwide. Claude performed live on National Public Radio and promptly shot to number nine on the US Billboard Blues charts. Deep Fried Satisfied hit top five on iTunes and MediaGuide, and on Amazon's top ten Blues albums of 2010, with the track Miss You So polling third in Best Blues Song of the Year. I Love Hate You finds Claude in rare collaborative mood, with the input of other musicians, most notably members of the Sydney band, Chase The Sun. Mastering is courtesy of William Bowden [Gotye, Kylie Minogue, The Living End]. I Love Hate You deals mainly with the things Claude loves, hates and loves to hate. From loved ones, great gigs, and motor vehicles to treacherous trans-continental bus rides and indifferent radio programmers.

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Claude Hay - Kiss The Sky

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:44
Size: 100.1 MB
Styles: Roots, Contemporary blues
Year: 2007
Art: Front

[3:31] 1. Smile
[3:15] 2. Kiss The Sky
[3:13] 3. Gold
[2:53] 4. Commercial Fallout
[2:49] 5. Sun
[4:09] 6. Fade
[3:18] 7. Fly
[3:04] 8. Inside
[3:49] 9. $5 99 Toaster
[3:52] 10. Hope
[3:19] 11. Be Alright
[3:52] 12. Grow Up
[2:33] 13. Inside (Chille)

One Man Band, Claude Hay's first album release of his rootsy-blues acoustic-ish sound. Hailing from the Blue Mountains near Sydney, award winning Australian solo artist Claude Hay blends slide guitar, bass and drums to create music that invokes the best of stomping traditional blues, hard rock and booty-shaking funk, all delivered with chops to burn and a vocal range to match. Claude is perhaps the world’s ultimate Do-It- Yourself musician – forging his live sound on the back of looping technology which allows him to create a band vibe without the band. This approach has seen this fiercely independent artist build an audience for his music globally with the release of three award-winning home-made albums. Taking DIY a step further than most, Claude has built all his own equipment: there’s ‘Betty’, his double-necked guitar which he made out of a kitchen bench top; there’s ‘Stella’, his new ‘Cigar Box’ guitar which started its life as a six dollar baking tin. He’s also built his own dome house and studio from the ground up, and pimped out his tour van with a shower and bar (a great move when you consider how much time he spends on the road).

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Claude Hay - Live At The Clarendon

Size: 126,2 MB
Time: 54:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2014
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Intro (1:02)
02. I Love Hate You (3:12)
03. Narrow Mind (2:41)
04. Get Me Some (4:46)
05. Stone Face (4:15)
06. 207 (6:03)
07. Blues Train (3:29)
08. Close (4:14)
09. Good Times (3:33)
10. We Will Rock You (6:21)
11. Don't Give Me That (4:46)
12. Come Together (5:29)
13. On Hold (4:14)

Shot in his home town Katoomba, Blue Mountains, the DVD gets up close and personal, demonstrating his full swag of his multi-tasking skills. From drumming, to guitar and vocal prowess to self made custom guitars and set construction and design, Claude Hay is a true proponent of the Do-It-Yourself, independent artist.

Winner of Australia’s Blues Male Vocalist of 2013, and Best Live Independent Act, Claude Hay has released 3 studio albums to date with Deep Fried Satisfied reaching #9 on USA’s Blues Billboard Charts and the single Get Me Some charting at #5 on Amazon’s Blues Charts. Whilst Hay embarks on a band tour for the first time in April in Australia, he continues his electrifying solo show in Belgium and Netherlands in May, releasing his first live DVD which showcases tracks from his 2012 release I Love Hate You.

Live At The Clarendon

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