Showing posts with label Kevin Hemphill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kevin Hemphill. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Kevin Hemphill & The Nightbirds - Live At The Flipside

Size: 154,3 MB
Time: 66:44
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2007
Styles: Blues Rock, Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Pride And Joy (4:14)
02. Mary Had A Little Lamb (3:59)
03. Leave My Girl Alone (5:25)
04. Voodoo Chile (7:32)
05. Sweet Home Chicago (3:54)
06. She Loves My Automobile (3:03)
07. Bad Moon Rising (2:23)
08. Tightrope (4:57)
09. Texas Flood (7:37)
10. Before You Accuse Me (3:54)
11. Tush (3:07)
12. The Sky Is Cryin' (4:15)
13. Travelin' Band (2:27)
14. Sweet Home Alabama (4:27)
15. Got My Mojo Workin' (5:23)

Blues has always been at the heart of everything that Kevin Hemphill (guitar/vocals), Matt Asbury (bass) and Bill Dowe (Hammond/piano} have ever played.

Guitarist Kevin Hemphill, a Greensboro, NC native and a regular on the local music scene (since Junior High School), started his music career in a metal band called "MINDS IN MOTION" and later, "ILL CONCEIVED".Kevin recalls that "ILL CONCEIVED was music you could sink your teeth into.I lived that band day and night for so many years."Kevin heard his first SRV song at a party sometime in the late 90's.That was the moment that his musical path was made clearâ€""I had to play the music that I felt would project all the emotion, expression and raw power that the blues had to offer".This experience led him to answer an ad for a "bluesy" guitar player in a local music paper.The band was "NIGHT SHIFT" and that's where Kevin met Matt (the bass player) for the first time.

Bassist Matt Asbury and Hemphill left "NIGHT SHIFT" and formed "SOULCANDY".After playing over 80 shows in 19 months, "SOULCANDY" went their separate ways.Kevin and Matt then started "BETTER OFF BOUND" which rolled along for almost 120 shows in 18 months but ultimately did not fulfill the two's creative muse.

After taking a short break from the local music scene, Kevin and Matt started jamming on the music of SRV and decided that they wanted to get back to their love - the blues.

"We got to rehearse a couple more times with Bill and liked what he was doing so we invited him to play with us at Copperhoods in High Point where we introduced him as our newest member" said Kevin.

Live At The Flipside