Showing posts with label Fat Harry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fat Harry. Show all posts

Monday, November 3, 2025

Fat Harry & The Fuzzy Licks - Zero Ten Alley

Album: Zero Ten Alley
Size: 100,5 MB
Time: 43:13
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Feel Good Blues (3:54)
2. I'm Gonna Leave You (Feat. Joe Louis Walker) (4:01)
3. Step By Step (3:09)
4. Set You Free (Feat. Robbin Kapsalis) (3:13)
5. In My Home (4:27)
6. Fake News (4:08)
7. I've Seen The Light (4:22)
8. Can't Give You Everything (4:11)
9. Booked Off (4:16)
10. Ignorant Wall (3:51)
11. Swear I Can Hear You (3:36)

Top Dutch blues band Fat Harry & the Fuzzy Licks has released its second album "Zero Ten Alley" (010 is popular code for their hometown Rotterdam). The album is filled with catchy songs that blend soul, funk, R&B into a style that does not shy away from showing respect to the band’s heroes of Afro-American music. All presented in a sound that is very much adding present influences to the classic blues template.

On stage, this highly respected blues unit, always makes sure that their music skills never get in the way of passion and energy. Their musical versatility has lead to a list of international artists that have been happy to work with Fat Harry & the Fuzzy Licks as their European touring band. The band has played with the likes of Preston Shannon, Kat Riggins, John Primer, Curtis Salgado, Giles Robson and Lurrie Bell to name a few.

The band has always had a strong bond especially with Joe Louis Walker. He has been an early inspiration, but in return the Fuzzy Licks have backed him regularly on European stages and Joe Louis actually even recorded a song penned by Harry for his album "Between A Rock And The Blues". One of (if not THE) last recordings Joe Louis Walker did before his passing was a haunting guitar solo on I’m Gonna Leave You for "Zero Ten Alley" - which now sounds like a sinister prophecy.

Other prominent contributions on "Zero Ten Alley" come from soulful blues songstress Robbin Kapsalis and the band’s own saxophone player Jan de Ligt, who sadly passed away shortly after the recordings of this new album. Which, despite these life challenges the band went through, is another highlight in the band’s career reminding us that the blues is still alive. /Bluestown Music

Personnel: Harold "Fat Harry" Dorth (vocals, guitar); Remko Deijl (bass); Jacco van den Heuvel (drums); David Franco (keyboards); Jan de Ligt (saxophone). Special guests: Joe Louis Walker (guitar track 2); Robbin Kapsalis (vocals track 4).

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Friday, December 18, 2015

Fat Harry & The Fuzzy Licks - Hard Lovin' Man

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:18
Size: 126.6 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:23] 1. Hard Lovin' Man
[3:24] 2. Slippin' And Slidin'
[5:00] 3. Jealous Man
[3:01] 4. Sillicon Woman
[4:22] 5. Don't Know You That Well
[3:19] 6. Sweet Home Abudaldah
[4:33] 7. Tell Me Your Plan
[5:55] 8. As The Years Go Passing By
[4:03] 9. No One Wants To Be The First To Cry
[4:22] 10. It's All My Fault
[2:48] 11. Richmond, California
[3:31] 12. Shade Tree Mechanic
[2:26] 13. Vapotramp
[4:05] 14. Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home

Fat Harry Dorth - Guitar and Vocals; René Schutte - Hammond and Piano; Jack Hill - Drums; Hassan Abudaldah - Bass.

Smoking contemporary blues is just a brief description of this this rocking band out of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. This is because their music can’t be confined to only one style of the vast styles of blues,soul and real 50’s Rhythm & Blues.
So is their 2013 album release „Hard Lovin’ Man” a blend of diverse styles and self written songs. Fat Harry & The Fuzzy Licks was noticed for their ferocious approach to the genre.

From funk to hard soul and a turn back to gutbucket old school blues. The (international) critics were lyrical in their reviews. The album also features Preston Shannon on guitar and vocals, and Bay Area Legend Henry Oden on bass and vocals.

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