Showing posts with label Glamour Puss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glamour Puss. Show all posts

Saturday, January 21, 2023

Glamour Puss - Wire & Wood

Album: Wire & Wood
Size: 121,6 MB
Time: 52:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2003
Styles: Blues
Art: Front, tray

1. Kitty Kitty (3:28)
2. Hollow Man (3:38)
3. Don't You Worry (3:49)
4. I Don't Know How To Win Your Love (3:17)
5. You're Rich I'm Poor (3:56)
6. Maman Don't Play No Zydeco (2:32)
7. Wire & Wood (3:17)
8. If You Miss Me (4:29)
9. Swingin' Cin (2:55)
10. Boom Boom (3:27)
11. Dangereuse (4:44)
12. Six Feet Down (2:37)
13. Million-Air (4:45)
14. Blues For Sheila (3:01)
15. Hidden Track (2:30)

Fourteen originals and one John Lee Hooker cover allow Glamour Puss to interpret modern electric blues with ease. Their title track explains through traditional roots anchors that the blues guitar, just a simple instrument made out of wire and wood, has been known to provide the kind of companionship that we need when things aren’t going right. That guitar never forgets birthdays and always has time to spare when it comes to keeping us company. Everybody needs such a friend.

This lively blues band hails from New Brunswick, Canada, whose Acadian Peninsula played a major role in the development of Southern Louisiana folk music. Cajun cooking bears a strong resemblance to the forceful presence that Glamour Puss brings to the stage. Roger Cormier’s “Dangereuse” is sung in French with the kind of exotic mystique that comes naturally with the blues. Dramatic pieces are interwoven on the program with happier, fun-loving tunes whose English lyrics generate festive thoughts. Their music amplifies the band’s message throughout the program.

The horn section on “I Don’t Know How to Win Your Love” promises to keep the session happy for all time. The session’s lone instrumental number, “Blues for Sheila,” provides traditional roots from way back. The album’s high point comes through Cormier’s “Maman Don’t Play No Zydeco,” where French and English lyrics give the listener an old friend in the New Orleans tradition. It’s repeated at the very end, in French. Throughout their highly recommended program, Glamour Puss provides a genuine look at what makes the blues so much fun. /Jim Santella, All About Jazz

Personnel: Ron Dupuis (drums, vocals); Travis Furlong (guitar, vocals); Paul Boudreau (bass, vocals); Roger Cormier (keyboards, accordion, harmonica, vocals); Don Rodgers (tenor saxophone, vocals).

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Friday, January 13, 2023

Glamour Puss - Blues du Jour

Size: 395 MB
Time: 56:00
File: Flac
Released: 1999
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. But They Should (4:05)
2. Rockin' In the Pocket (2:59)
3. Businessman (3:17)
4. It Takes One To Know One (4:17)
5. Living Large (3:29)
6. Fishbelly (2:04)
7. Right Sized (3:33)
8. Hey, Hey, Slack la Patate (2:22)
9. Baby Gotta Rock All Night (3:22)
10. Won't Look Back (3:27)
11. Everybody Gets The Blues (3:54)
12. Cajun Woman (3:33)
13. Mike a Joe (2:55)
14. Roll With The Punches (2:57)
15. Blues du Jour (2:42)
16. Au Bout du Voyage (3:27)
17. Craquer (3:29)

Celebrated as one of Atlantic Canada’s top national/international touring acts from Moncton, New Brunswick, Glamour Puss saw a personnel change followed by release of their 5th recording. Photo: Gilles Landry There has never been a Canadian band quite like Glamour Puss. Who can they be compared to? Making music is a fickle vocation and it seems that many bands are defined by a song or two, perhaps even a couple of albums. In Glamour Puss there lies however a more treasured creation. Here is an Atlantic Canadian act that has aggressively pursued its raison d'ĂȘtre, courting risk at every turn and assuring their future in the process. Always re-inventing, repositioning, re-contextualizing and not once bowing to a challenge, theyPhoto: Gilles Landry have never sounded like anything but themselves. In the last decade Glamour Puss has developed a reputation as one of Atlantic Canada’s lead touring bands. Their energetic music uniquely incorporates vibrant elements of Swing, Blues, Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues and a unique Acadian flavour of their East Coast roots. Glamour Puss has a truly identifiable sound they can rightly call their own. With such a broad approach to Photo: Gilles Landrytheir original music audiences continue to be all ages, families, couples, groups of best friends out to dance and have a great time. Glamour Puss has toured without end throughout Canada, the United States and overseas, taking their infectious Atlantic Canadian music worldwide developing fans and friends always leaving their audience smiling. Since January 2005 Glamour Puss has been in pre-Photo: Gilles Landryproduction creating new music and updating arrangements fully exploring the addition of Larry Maillet to the group. Larry brings to the group a powerful voice featuring harmonica and guitar, unquestionably one of the best singers on the East Coast. Ron, Travis, Paul and Roger the four original members of Glamour Puss are pumped with a bigger sound than ever, a sound that is more guitar driven and lashed with blues harp. The band hasn’t changed its sound they have simply become more amazing. Glamour Puss has won three East Coast Music APhoto: Gilles Landrywards, created and performed the music for the New Brunswick Tourism Department for 2003 & 2004 and is regarded as the most bilingual performing act in Atlantic Canada. Nominated for a 2006 East Coast Music Award for Blues Recording of the Year, Bluesman's Prayer is the latest Glamour Puss release. Recording in a small church in rural New Brunswick provided the band an emotional venue that captured their sincere stories while providing world-class sound quality. Bluesman’s Prayer combines great songwriting with incredible guitar playing from Travis, soulful keyboard and vocals from Roger, excellent new songs by Larry, and a kick-ass rhythm section with Paul and Ron.

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