Size: 123,8 + 88,6 MB
Time: 53:20 + 38:17
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Blues, harmonica blues
Art: Full
CD 1 - Studio:
1. Swing Harp (1:28)
2. Shake (5:09)
3. The Other Piece Of Me (4:15)
4. The Man I Used To Be (4:50)
5. Red Bag's Girl (6:05)
6. Computer Lover (4:50)
7. Eight O'Clock Blues (4:48)
8. Mary Jane (3:58)
9. Blinking Idiot! (3:15)
10. The Gathering (5:17)
11. The End Of It (5:15)
12. (Bonus) Truck (4:04)
CD 2 - Live:
1. Slow Down (5:51)
2. Can't Keep A Good Man Down (4:00)
3. You Don't Have To Go (5:55)
4. When The Bobcat Play (3:53)
5. The Same Thing (8:48)
6. Caroline's Smile (4:48)
7. Lucky In Love (4:57)
This band may come from France, but the blood running through their veins is as blue as can be and with their second album, "Blues Twins", these five guys will convert even the most blasé to blues music. "Blues Twins" is in fact a double album, one live CD and one recorded in studio: very daring for a first album but it turns out to be a real class act. We start off with the live album and "Slow Down" goes off with a bang and is followed by a very punchy "Can't Keep A Good Man Down". Shake Your Hips! really mean business when they play live and let out the stage animals they are as in this live recording of the concert they did one summer night of 2008 in Nantes. It's molten lava destroying everything in its way including those CDs you were listening to and thought were pretty good. The cocktail of covers on this CD may have been a weakness but, in fact, the band's interpretation is incredibly efficient and, from the first track, you can’t help feeling they’re a band to be reckoned with.
After the live album, you’re left wondering whether it was a mistake starting with the live CD. But there’s nothing else to do but slip the studio album in and from the first track, "Swingharp", an instrumental piece, you’re nailed to your chair. It's shaking, swinging, smouldering and undoubtedly up there with the live recording. And yes, it's a relief as it could have been a disappointment after such an extraordinary first album. The journey goes on with the bluest blues you’ve heard in a long time, subtle and direct at the same time and with a talent straight from red hot embers. The same intense red which sets alight "Gathering" with its breathtaking harp intro: it's as if you’re hearing the bagpipes in the Highlands with the guitar, drums and bass coming out of the woods like a Scottish mist and nothing can resist it. The band, accompanied by some impressive guests, has now found their Holy Grail with their songwriting.
We can't mention them all but there is something really special: "Eight O'Clock Blues" is one of the most authentic blues songs of the year and "The End Of It", a slow blues number as powerful and intense as the famous "The End" from the Doors and that's saying something. Shake Your Hips! is not yet another French band, not another chorus, not another blues band but the blues band of the moment and a band with a huge heart, the sort of band we rarely hear these days. Go on, Shake Your Hips!.
Personnel: Freddy Miller (vocals); Olivier Raymond (guitar, backing vocals); Jérôme Ferrié (bass); Olivier Ferrié (drums); Jean-Marc Henaux (harmonica).
Thanks to Daba for providing the info text.
After the live album, you’re left wondering whether it was a mistake starting with the live CD. But there’s nothing else to do but slip the studio album in and from the first track, "Swingharp", an instrumental piece, you’re nailed to your chair. It's shaking, swinging, smouldering and undoubtedly up there with the live recording. And yes, it's a relief as it could have been a disappointment after such an extraordinary first album. The journey goes on with the bluest blues you’ve heard in a long time, subtle and direct at the same time and with a talent straight from red hot embers. The same intense red which sets alight "Gathering" with its breathtaking harp intro: it's as if you’re hearing the bagpipes in the Highlands with the guitar, drums and bass coming out of the woods like a Scottish mist and nothing can resist it. The band, accompanied by some impressive guests, has now found their Holy Grail with their songwriting.
We can't mention them all but there is something really special: "Eight O'Clock Blues" is one of the most authentic blues songs of the year and "The End Of It", a slow blues number as powerful and intense as the famous "The End" from the Doors and that's saying something. Shake Your Hips! is not yet another French band, not another chorus, not another blues band but the blues band of the moment and a band with a huge heart, the sort of band we rarely hear these days. Go on, Shake Your Hips!.
Personnel: Freddy Miller (vocals); Olivier Raymond (guitar, backing vocals); Jérôme Ferrié (bass); Olivier Ferrié (drums); Jean-Marc Henaux (harmonica).
Thanks to Daba for providing the info text.
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