The Pocket Players - Acid Blue Horizon

Year: 2013
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 34:49
Size: 80,9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front

1. Drivin' Blues (3:14)
2. Person To Person (3:35)
3. I Take What I Want (2:27)
4. Combination Boogie (2:52)
5. Amnesia (3:23)
6. Come On In My Kitchen (3:32)
7. One Way Out (3:28)
8. Nothing But The Blues (3:57)
9. Bad Bad Whiskey (4:24)
10. Someday Baby (3:51)

The Pocket Players is a blues band from Aarhus, Denmark, consisting of known veterans. The band's absolute focal point and cornerstone is Ole Bech, who with a rare energy and empathy sings and plays "The Blues" - every time. Very raw, with huge honesty and incredibly beautiful. The Pocket Players arose because the four musicians, who know each other from before through the Danish blues scene, wanted to play the blues at its best, namely traditional but without any rules so that fun and personal musicality will be given a central role, both during recording sessions and live concerts.

Perhaps you wonder why the band is named "The Pocket Players"? But no, it has nothing to do with pocket billiards or other sultry interpretations. Being a "pocket player" or "playing in the pocket" is a term derived from the blues environment in the South. A pocket player has a solid groove and holds on to it with all he's got. When an entire band is "in the pocket", it means that all spirits are together and play music solidly built on a strong foundation of secure grooves. And that is exactly what The Pocket Players do.

Personnel: Ole Bech (guitar, vockals), Palle Hjort (organ), Søren Poulsen (drums), Henrik Poulsen (bass).

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The Pocket Players - Throw Your Dog A Bone

Year: 2016
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 37:53
Size: 88,0 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Scans: Front

1. St. Croix Blues (3:55)
2. I Believe I'll Cross The Rim (2:04)
3. Walk The Planet For You (3:26)
4. Losin' It (4:26)
5. Throw Your Dog A Bone (3:10)
6. Brand New Start (3:54)
7. Will You Weep For Me (3:42)
8. The Blinds (5:07)
9. No Friend Of Mine (3:27)
10. Jonah (4:40)

"Throw Your Dog A Bone" is the latest release from Danish blues band The Pocket Players, who by now has 4 years in the business. Their music is described as "classical blues without rules, but with fabulous musicians and heaps of energy". The album consists of self-composed songs about love, jealousy, alcohol, sex and lust for life. The album also contains sharp comments to Denmark and the state of the Western World in the year 2016.

The Pocket Players' sound is raw and unpolished. The band follows a proud old blues tradition of stealing with arms and legs and stir it all together in a gumbo. The result is blues with a dash of acid rock. A quite unique and different expression than the blues derived from the Mississippi Delta, Muddy Waters' Chicago or Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas.

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