Showing posts with label Ged Wilson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ged Wilson. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Ged Wilson - Anthology

Size: 99,2 MB
Time: 42:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Ain't That A Shame (3:39)
02. Irwell Delta Blues (3:49)
03. Bullet For The Blues (2:34)
04. Meet The Boss (3:04)
05. Run With The Devil (3:39)
06. What The Blind Man Saw (3:27)
07. Spin The Coin (3:11)
08. Tonight At Noon (3:22)
09. Evil (Is In Your Soul) (4:12)
10. Down The Line (2:53)
11. Passion (4:14)
12. Kinda Blue (4:05)

Ged Wilson is now well established on the British blues scene. He has toured the nation and has three albums under his belt. With much radio airplay and favourable reviews Ged is now starting to make his mark.

Ged Wilson describes his act as blues for the 21st Century. Raised along the Irwell Delta in Manchester and now relocated in Cheltenham, Ged is a veteran of the British Blues boom of the 60's. He cuts his original tunes from the world around him viewed through his northern biased kaleidoscope. With his upbeat guitar styles he weaves some slide, rack harp and laconic humour into his funky one man medicine show.

In the 1970’s inspired by the likes of John Mayall, Rory Gallagher and Savoy Brown Ged joined his first band called “Spike” as lead singer. The band recorded an album (vinyl LP) of self penned songs and went on to play many gigs in the Northwest of England. After a couple of years the 5 piece band went their separate ways as work and lifestyle changes took their toll.

During the 1980’s Ged experimented with the rise in synthesisers and drum machines as well as learning to play saxophone and harmonica. Ged recorded some demos at the now defunct Twilight studios in Salford. All of this was good grounding for his future musical career.

In the early 1990’s Ged formed his band, “Blues at Ten” a 4 piece blues band featuring Ged on lead vocals, guitar and harmonica. The band did many gigs across the north of England sometimes playing 7 nights a week! Here Ged started to hone his craft on stage. Once again after 4 years on the road the band took a break.

Fast forward to the early noughties and Ged was asked to front a new band called “No Money Down” a 5 piece blues band from the North West of England. The band went on to win many plaudits as they toured the country and played the major blues festivals. The band went across to Chicago to jam and observe first hand what was going down in the blues clubs there and bringing this fresh approach back to Blighty. Once again after 4 years on the road the band retired and at that point in 2011 Ged decided to go it alone.

Ged has since made many radio appearances and had his music played around the world. His albums have been appreciated by a global audience and his third studio album “Tonight at Noon” released in 2016 had a promo track “Ain’t That a Shame” featured on the Paul Jones blues show on BBC Radio 2. Ged’s previous studio album “What’s Going On?” was listed in the top 100 albums worldwide for the year 2013.

Anthology

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Ged Wilson - Tonight At Noon

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:38
Size: 102.2 MB
Styles: Americana, Acoustic/electric blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[3:26] 1. What The Blindman Saw
[3:40] 2. The Mighty
[4:12] 3. Ain't That A Shame
[4:10] 4. Evil (Is In Your Soul)
[3:03] 5. Meet The Boss
[3:22] 6. Tonight At Noon
[3:48] 7. Irwell Delta Blues
[3:03] 8. Different Class
[2:49] 9. Northern Town
[3:15] 10. Lady Luck
[2:11] 11. Love Is
[3:39] 12. Run With The Devil
[3:53] 13. Riffs And Spliffs

Manchester born and bred, now living in Cheltenham bluesman Ged Wilson has seen a great deal of water pass under the bridge since 1971 when he walked into a bookshop in St Ann’s Square Manchester to purchase a copy of Penguin Modern Poets 10, and in doing so he found his gateway to the poems of Adrian Henri to change his way of thinking. In his words after only scratching on the British blues boom he went on to discover a whole new music through Gil Scott-Heron, Miles Davis and Lightnin’ Hopkins. That’s not all because he also gained another great influence on seeing Led Zeppelin live in concert and insight what music comprised of. When you place all the above in a melting pot you arrive at the place where Ged Wilson (guitar, harmonica) now comes, and though jazz isn’t my thing even on “The Mighty” one of two or three tracks that way inclined the opening alone is something to behold and to savour. ~Maurice Hope

Tonight At Noon

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Ged Wilson - What's Going On?

Size: 71,1 MB
Time: 30:54
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Swamp Blues, Contemporary Blues
Label: Ged Wilson
Art: Front

01. Different Class (3:31)
02. Passion (4:11)
03. Kinda Blue (4:03)
04. Lies (3:31)
05. Hardest Words (3:45)
06. False Alarm (4:06)
07. Reign Cheque (4:33)
08. Spin The Coin (3:10)

Contemporary British blues with an American Southern rock swagger.

What’s Going On? is a collection of songs to reflect my moods, thoughts and reactions to the life and changing times I see around me viewed through my Northern rooted kaleidoscope.

A special thanks to Miles Davis, Gil Scott-Heron and Lightin’ Hopkins for being my inspiration in music. You have enabled me from above to create this work by touching my soul as I act for you as a Blues agent here on planet earth.

This is music only a full grown man could make!

Whats Going On?