Showing posts with label Big Sugar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Sugar. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2017

Big Sugar - 2 albums: Revolution Per Minute / Hit & Run

Gordie Johnson – guitar/vocals; Garry Lowe – bass; Kelly “Mr Chill” Hoppe – harmonica/sax/melodica; Friendlyness – keyboards/toasting; Stephane “Bodean” Beaudin- drums. Also featuring:Tony “Raffa” White – drums.

Gordie Johnson and his Rasta brethren churn out their unique blend of roots-rock-reggae with double neck guitars and dreadlocks flying through the air. BIG SUGAR continues to live up their reputation for thundering live performances spiced with epic dub excursions that keep crowds grooving. BIG SUGAR’S style has even inspired other notable artists, including THE BLACK CROWES, GOV’T MULE and countless young “up and comers”. Calling All The Youth tops a platinum recording career that spans over 20 years, including their recent releases Revolution Per Minute, Yardstyle and the concert dvd Eliminate Ya! Live as well as a collaborations with Reggae legends WILLI WILLIAMS and DENNIS ALCAPONE. Following European tours, a German TV appearance on Rockpalast and a sold-out national acoustic tour, 2015 brings BIG SUGAR, fully electric across Canada, including a direct support date with the legendary AC/DC.

Album: Revolution Per Minute
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 53:35
Size: 122.7 MB
Styles: Roots rock, Electric blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[2:22] 1. Roads Ahead
[1:59] 2. Come A Little Closer … Now Come!
[4:04] 3. Little Bit A All Right
[5:21] 4. It's All I Know
[4:17] 5. If I Were Heaven (Tonight)
[4:03] 6. Done So Much In The Dark
[3:13] 7. Work It Now!
[3:12] 8. Devil In The Launderette
[3:41] 9. Un-Employed Expert
[4:20] 10. Counterfeit Wings (Are Some Jive Ass Wings)
[3:52] 11. Insatiable
[4:33] 12. There’s No Tellin’ Me
[3:23] 13. True Believers
[5:08] 14. A Revolution Per Minute

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Album: Hit And Run
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:30
Size: 147.7 MB
Styles: Roots rock, Electric blues
Year: 2003
Art: Front

[3:20] 1. Sleep In Late
[4:46] 2. Ride Like Hell
[3:30] 3. I'm A Ram
[4:57] 4. Dear Mr. Fantasy
[5:24] 5. Diggin A Hole
[5:12] 6. If I Had My Way
[3:52] 7. Opem Up Baby
[4:17] 8. The Scene
[2:54] 9. Better Get Used To It
[3:53] 10. Turn The Lights On
[4:56] 11. Red Rover
[4:02] 12. Nicotina (She's All That)
[3:55] 13. All Hell For A Basement
[3:42] 14. I Want You Now
[2:56] 15. Trouble In The City
[2:47] 16. Three Minute Song

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Saturday, November 1, 2014

Big Sugar - Brothers & Sisters, Are You Ready

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:43
Size: 113.8 MB
Styles: Rock, Electric blues
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[4:57] 1. Red Rover
[3:47] 2. Nashville Grass
[4:04] 3. She Left Ashes
[4:02] 4. Nicotina (She's All That)
[3:32] 5. So Not Over
[4:06] 6. Butterball
[4:11] 7. Bump On The Head
[3:53] 8. Lost And Found
[3:35] 9. Bad Old Days
[4:10] 10. We Could Live
[3:12] 11. Pretty Bird
[3:54] 12. All Hell For A Basement
[2:15] 13. O Canada

Having benefited both from Gordie Johnson's tinkerings with dub side project Alkaline and the acquisition of additional riddim guitarist Mojah, Big Sugar veers into a distinctly more esoteric direction on this, their fifth outing. As with 1998's Heated, Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? is loaded with a batch of dependable high-octane rock crunchers (particularly album opener "Red Rover," lead single "Nicotina," and "All Hell for a Basement") and some passable exercises in rock-dub fusion (both "Nashville Grass" and the chirruping "Pretty Bird" coast along on reggae-informed guitar lines). Unfortunately, it's not always enough to disguise Johnson's obvious creative lull; too many of the songs plod along aimlessly for this to rank among the band's finer moments. A consolation note: the inclusion of an amped-up "O Canada" and the coinciding release of Brothers and Sisters Êtes Vous Ready? (which marks the first time an English-speaking Canadian band has ever simultaneously released an album in English and French) will forever ensure that Big Sugar has a spot in the annals of Canadian music history. ~Mark Pytlik

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