Paolo Bonfanti - Exile On Backstreets

Size: 305 MB
Time: 48:21
File: Flac
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues, rockin' blues
Art: Front

1. Father's Things (2:36)
2. Break 'em Chains (3:39)
3. My Bay Can (3:24)
4. Cards (4:21)
5. Black Glove (3:54)
6. Slow Blues for Bruno (7:37)
7. Up to My Neck in You (3:58)
8. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive (3:11)
9. Take Me Out (5:20)
10. Exile On Backstreets (6:52)
11. I Hate the Capitalist System (3:25)

Paolo Bonfanti (guitar and vocals) and Roberto Bongianino (accordion) play acoustic versions of the songs from Paolo Bonfanti's latest CD, Exile on backstreets. The title of the CD is a double homage to the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen; the songs, all original, are inspired by the Blues as well as the American singer-songwriter tradition. The CD is the most oriented towards "black music" in all its possible nuances of the entire production and the songs speak of gray areas, of existences on the margins, of those who often feel excluded and are always forced to fight to live, but they are also the vindication of a lifestyle outside of trends and fashions and a space of concrete resistance to resignation and passivity.

Exile On Backstreets FLAC

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Paolo Bonfanti - Trying To Keep The Whole Thing Rockin'

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 44:23
Size: 101.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:25] 1. On My Best Behavor
[6:10] 2. Blues Don't Pay
[4:44] 3. Dead End
[3:43] 4. Look-Ka Py Py
[4:13] 5. Two Steps Away From The Blues
[3:24] 6. Changes I'm Goin' Thru
[5:22] 7. Route One
[6:17] 8. Stream Of Your Love
[4:00] 9. I'm Just Tryin'
[2:59] 10. You Were Right

Born in Genova, Italy (Nov. 15th, 1960). He began to play guitar in 1975 after studying music theory, harmony and piano. In the early 80s he attended master classes with Armando Corsi and Beppe Gambetta. In 1986 he attended a summer course at Berklee College of Music in Boston. Graduated in music semiotics at University of Bologna, Italy in 1996. From 1985 to 1990 he has been leading Big Fat Mama, one of the most important rock-blues bands in Italy, with whom recorded 3 LPs, played top clubs and festivals, appeared on several Tv programs (local and nationwide broadcasting), worked with several american blues players touring Italy.

He is co-founding member of Downtown, together with legends of the British blues such as sax player Dick Heckstall-Smith (Colosseum, Alexis Corner, John Mayall), drummer Mickey Waller (Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, Rod Stewart) and bass player Bob Brunning (Savoy Brown). The band split in 1991 after touring extensively. He is currently playing with his own band, as a soloist, with Red Wine (one of the most important bluegrass bands in Europe, with whom he played the Winfield Acoustic Music Festival in Kansas), with Beppe Gambetta (summer 1992 European tour with Gene Parson, Byrds' legendary drummer; Blues to Bop Festival in Lugano, Switzerland with Steve Kaufman, broadcast by Swiss National TV) and with Fabio Treves ("father" of Italian blues scene, opening for Junior Wells, ZZ TOP, appearances on national Tv networks).

Trying To Keep The Whole Thing Rockin'

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