Showing posts with label Lex Grey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lex Grey. Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2023

Lex Grey & The Urban Pioneers - How Many Roads?

Size: 105.9 MB
Time: 45:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2023
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. In It Together (5:02)
02. How Many Roads? (3:50)
03. Ain't From Mississippi (3:58)
04. Old Crookedy Broom (4:27)
05. Begin Again (3:05)
06. I Believe In You (3:47)
07. Aches And Pains (3:38)
08. You Confine Me (4:31)
09. Biker Down (5:05)
10. After A Lifetime (4:09)
11. Angel (3:27)

“I Believe In You” is a bluesy, powerful pop/rock number that nods to blues and soul while showcasing the band’s versatility and the unique vocals and lyrics of Lex Grey. The song is irresistibly uplifting and catchy while delivering a message of hope, unity, peace, and the importance of having faith in one another.

Lex Grey and the Urban Pioneers spent their early years as the house band in New York City’s most legendary nightclubs and the band presided over lower Manhattan and Brooklyn’s burlesque and vaudeville revival. After departing their Williamsburg Brooklyn home studio “Shabbey Road” for the greener pastures of Catskill New York, they affectionately dubbed their new home studio “Bigger Pink”. Here the band are spreading their creative wings, exploring their spiritual side and bringing their unique musical energy to a diverse and rapidly growing fanbase.

Front woman, songwriter and guitarist Lex Grey’s vocal stylings have been compared to artists such as Etta James, Robert Plant, Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse and even Tom Waits but this multiple ASCAP Award-winning song writer has a style all her own. Grey was recently inducted into the New York State Blues Hall of Fame as a “Master Rock and Blues Artist”. Lex brings a wealth of life experience into her music. Having worked in the film and TV industry as a production designer, a B movie queen and a prop builder for the Pee Wee Herman Show, she has also been a dayshift bartender, a telephone psychic, an international stage actress and an animal rescue assistant all while performing in a working band. Lex is also a certified yoga instructor, lecturer and historian. Together with producer/guitarist/audio engineer Vic “Mix” Deyglio (Guns and Roses, Lena Horne, Spin Doctors) they are the founding members of The Urban Pioneers.

How Many Roads? MP3
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Friday, January 26, 2018

Lex Grey & The Urban Pioneers - Usual Suspects

Size: 97,8 MB
Time: 41:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Usual Suspects (5:15)
02. Chow Down (3:23)
03. Dirty Secret (4:30)
04. SRV (3:51)
05. Warrior Squaw (4:51)
06. Sunshine And Blue (5:03)
07. Cheap Thrills (3:31)
08. My Jelly Roll (4:34)
09. Renegade Heart (6:32)

Personnel:
Lex Grey vocals, acoustic guitar on 1; percussion on 5, 9
Vic Mix guitars; Kaia Updike bass on 1, 3, 5, 8, 9; piano on 3,
flute, keyboard bass, background vocals on 5; violin on 7
Brian Dewan organ on 2, 3, 4 5; piano on 2, 7; accordion on 2
John Holland drums on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9; percussion,
background vocals on 5, 7; Walter Tates Jr. sax on 1, 4, 9
Tim Farrell bass on 4, 5; background vocals on 5, 7
Per Bergquist bass on 2, 7; Ed Was upright bass on 6
Mike Ragiani drums on 6; Chris Pasin trumpet on 6
Kenny Siegal lap steel on 7; Matt Messenger drums on 7
Rick Surrano Sr. harmonica on 8; Foggy Otis ukelele on 9

The whip-wielding mistress of modern blues is again bringing listeners to their knees: Lex Grey and the Urban Pioneers are preparing to release their seventh original album, “Usual Suspects.”

Made up of award-winning musicians and recording artists from a variety of diverse backgrounds, The Urban Pioneers are an eclectic, wildly entertaining, little (and sometimes big) band with a captivating singer and frontperson.
Lex Grey is a multiple ASCAP award-winning songwriter who beckons audiences into her world of personal stories cloaked in smoke and stage lights -- a world of drama, humor and rowdy abandon that makes music lovers feel as though they're doing something wrong just by listening. The band juxtaposes bawdiness with intimacy, introspection and a vulnerability that draws you in like a warm embrace. Having earned a reputation as a legendary live band with a dazzlingly theatrical show, the group emerges from the studio capturing live performances that constantly deconstruct and reinvent their palette of sounds.

Though she cites Ma Rainey as her greatest inspiration, Grey's vocal stylings have been compared to those of Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Bassey and, interestingly, Robert Plant, her voice an ever-morphing instrument that changes textures and tones on a dime. "Usual Suspects" fearlessly dances through genres while keeping its feet firmly rooted in blues, and it's certain to become one of the year's most talked-about blues.

Usual Suspects

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Lex Grey And The Urban Pioneers - Heal My Soul

Released: 2016
Size: 106.8 MB
Time: 45:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Classic / Blues Rock / Soul
Art: Front

1. Factory [4:43]
2. Hobo Soup [2:40]
3. Ghost [5:53]
4. Quiet Place [3:27]
5. Blues All Around [3:23]
6. Survive [5:35]
7. Junkman [3:30]
8. Black Stallion [5:21]
9. Lightnin' (In A Jar) [3:10]
10. Heal My Soul [7:28]

FEATURING THE MADAM OF MODERN BLUES
Lex Grey and The Urban Pioneers are a legendary live band and award-winning recording artists. Fusing old school blues and classic rock, the soul of the band is Lex Grey, whose power and passion blaze a primal fire.
Currently The Pioneers have just released their sixth original album, "Heal My Soul".

Heal My Soul