Showing posts with label Murray Kinsley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Murray Kinsley. Show all posts

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Murray Kinsley & Wicked Grin - Eye Of The Storm

Album: Eye Of The Storm
Size: 69,2 MB
Time: 30:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Snake Farm (5:13)
2. Dance With Me (4:53)
3. Dressed In Black (4:27)
4. Hold On (5:20)
5. Friday Blues (5:14)
6. Blues For Sorrow (4:52)

Reviewers have described this Maple Blues Award-winning band as stripped-down, hellaciously rockin’ new blues with the distinctive voice and guitar-work of Murray Kinsley, and a rhythm section that swings with funky precision featuring Laura Greenberg on bass and Dave Tettmaron drums. Based in Ottawa, Canada, the band has delivered its innovative, original blues to venues and festivals across Canada, the US, England and Germany with great success and accolades. Murray Kinsley & Wicked Grin won the Maple Blues Award for New Artist/Group of the Year in 2014 while Laura Greenberg is a two time Maple Blues Awards Bassist of the Year. The act was a semi-finalist at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, January 2019.

Their new 6-tracks EP “Eye Of The Storm” is the band's fifth recording. On Eye Of The Storm, Murray Kinsley & Wicked Grin deliver five originals written by Kinsley, and a gritty swampy cigar box cover of Ray Wylie Hubbard’s classic "Snake Farm". "Dance With Me" is a rockin' blues song about the healing power of music, while "Dressed In Black" is a heavy cigar box boogie blues about love and the inequality between women and men. "Hold On" is funky horn heavy-blues talking about the erosion of women’s rights. "Friday Blues" is a funky Chicago-style blues love song. The EP closes with "Blues For Sorrow", an acoustic blues song about the innocent victims of war and strife.

Personnel: Murray Kinsley (vocals, guitar, cigar box guitar); Laura Greenberg (bass, vocals); Dave Tettmar (drums, vocals, keyboards); Jesse O'Brien (organ, piano); Steve Marriner (harmonica); Zeek Gross (horns).

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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Murray Kinsley & Wicked Grin - Murder Creek

Size: 112,7 MB
Time: 48:34
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. This Old Dawg (Feat. Tom Bona & Sonny Del Rio) (4:01)
02. Fly Fly Fly (4:04)
03. Dance The Blues (Feat. Jesse O'Brien & Ted Peacock) (5:29)
04. Trouble Coming (4:31)
05. Take Me Down (Feat. Mary Jane Russell) (4:26)
06. So Long, Too Soon (Feat. Jesse O'Brien) (5:38)
07. Murder Creek (Feat. Ted Peacock) (4:40)
08. My Own Way (Feat. Jesse O'Brien, Darcy Hepner & Ted Peacock) (3:45)
09. Dark Nights (Feat. Jesse O'Brien & Mary Jane Russell) (4:20)
10. Freedom (Feat. Jesse O'Brien & Mary Jane Russell) (7:36)

Personnel:
Murray Kinsley: Lead vocals and all guitars
Rod Williams: Harmonica and background vocals
Leigh-Anne Stanton: Bass
Bruce Saunders: Percussion and drums

Reviewers have described Murray Kinsley & Wicked Grin as stripped-down hellaciously rockin’ new blues with the distinctive voice and guitar work of Murray Kinsley, awesome harmonica, and a rhythm section that swings with reckless, casual precision. On the road roughly 200 dates a year, the band brings their innovative and original blues to venues and festivals across Canada, the USA, England and Germany.

Based in Ottawa, Canada, this multi-Maple Blues Award-winning band has just completed their fourth disc since 2011. Two of their records were named Blues Rock Album of the Year by Western Canada’s Blues Underground Network (2013’s Shame On Me and 2015’s Stormy Water).

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Sunday, December 6, 2015

Murray Kinsley & Wicked Grin - Stormy Water

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 47:45
Size: 109.3 MB
Styles: Blues rock
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[4:49] 1. Dance Pretty Mama
[3:52] 2. By My Side
[4:42] 3. Shine
[4:00] 4. Everybody Oughta Make A Change
[6:28] 5. Evil Coming Round
[4:40] 6. I'm Mad
[3:36] 7. Fast Fast Car
[2:57] 8. Death If You Find Me
[4:21] 9. Talk Is Cheap
[3:57] 10. You're Gone
[4:19] 11. Let Me Love You

Winners of the 2014 Maple Blues Award for New Artist or Group of the Year, Murray Kinsley and Wicked Grin have been rockin’ festivals and clubs throughout Ontario and Western Canada with their distinctive hard-driving, in-your-face performances: full-tilt roots rock with a groove that just won’t quit. 2014 was a stellar year in which Wicked Grin represented the Ottawa Blues Society in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in January, played the Ottawa Bluesfest, Kitchener Bluesfest, Calabogie Blues & Ribfest and Kingston Blues Festival, toured Western Canada and was runner-up in the Toronto Blues Society’s 2014 Talent Search.Several tunes from Wicked Grin’s latest album “Shame On Me” are getting widespread airplay, including on DAWG-FM and on Sirius/XM’s B.B. King’s Bluesville channel, and the album was chosen by Blues Underground Network as Best Canadian Blues Rock Album of 2014.

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