Reed Turchi - Road Ends In Water (Remastered 2021)

Size: 83.7 MB
Time: 35:56
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2012
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Dr. Recommended (Feat. Luther Dickinson) (Remastered 2021) (3:51)
02. Be Alright (Feat. Luther Dickinson) (Remastered 2021) (3:42)
03. Keep On Drinking (Feat. Luther Dickinson) (Remastered 2021) (3:51)
04. Do For You (Feat. Chris Reali) (Remastered 2021) (3:21)
05. Don't Let The Devil Ride (Remastered 2021) (2:27)
06. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning (Feat. Sara Slaughter) (Remastered 2021) (3:45)
07. Watchya Tryin (Remastered 2021) (3:02)
08. Junior's Boogie (Feat. Chris Reali) (Remastered 2021) (3:29)
09. Can't Be Satisfied (Remastered 2021) (3:54)
10. Shake Em On Down (Remastered 2021) (4:28)

"Road Ends In Water" is the debut album from Memphis-based band TURCHI, a Southern Blues Rock slide-guitar-boogie-kudzu-music duo featuring Reed Turchi (slide guitar, vocals) and Cameron Weeks (drums).

On his first solo album Turchi, who is based in Chapel Hill and plays guitar and sings,Chris Reali (a musicology student at UNC-Chapel Hill) on bass, and Cameron Weeks (Blackskies) on drums, and the group is joined by the great Luther Dickinson on three tracks. The Lutherized songs, in particular Dr. Recommended (Satisfaction Guaranteed) has a wealth of swagger. Luther brings it, and it's hangin'. Turchi brings a Dylanesque-tone to Road Ends In Water akin to Bob's more recent work (I'd bet money a very discerning Dylan would dig this album) filtered thru Junior Kimbrough and R.L. Burnside alumnus Kenny Brown. Reed Turchi could almost be, as Brown was to Burnside, Kenny's adopted son. That's not to say Turchi is aping. That's not it. But Kenny is a predominant and fine flavor. Turchi is a tight band and I'd be very interested to see/hear them live. Reed and his friends have made a fine first album that reps them well...This is original and very solid North Mississippi hill country (and delta blues reworks) that should satisfy any fan. ~Rick Saunders, REAL DEEP BLUES

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Reed Turchi & His Kudzu Orkestra - Live At Soulshine

Size: 126,9 MB
Time: 54:59
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Blues Rock, Desert Blues
Art: Front

01. Goin Down South (Live) (8:17)
02. You Got To Move (Live) (4:44)
03. It Goes Down Smooth (Live) (1:32)
04. Keep On Drinkin (Live) (5:35)
05. Kudzu Raga (Live) (7:17)
06. Skinny Woman (Live) (6:05)
07. Floristella (Live) (4:33)
08. Room For A Love Offering (Live) (1:02)
09. Jumper On The Line (Live) (9:35)
10. Escape Velocity (Lost In The Vines) (Live) (6:15)

Personnel:
Billy Bennett - Synthesizer, Samples, Feedback, Bass
Art Edmaiston - Sax, Interludes
Andy Ellis - 11 String Fretless Oud
Adam Hill - Guitar, Percussion
Lee McAlilly - Synthesizer, Style, Bass
Alex Morgan - One Note Keyboard
Heather Moulder - Keyboard, Vocals
Roderic Maybin - Percussion
Kirby Shelstad - Drums, Percussion
Reed Turchi - Guitar, Vocals
Blair - Drums, Percussion

The night before the show, Art called to say the alternator in his car had gone out, and he was buying a ticket to get the Greyhound out of Memphis the next morning.

The morning after the show, Adam called to ask if I knew where his guitar, his shoes, or his bag had ended up.

What happened inbetween was pure magic, music like none ever heard before, soaring over the Nashville skyline on a hot summer night, fueled by a bottle of tequila, too many vodka drinks to count (thanks to our sponsor), and a mysterious “Happy Birthday Artie” cake that just coincidentally was waiting for us in the dressing room—no relation.

The mission of the Kudzu Orkestra is to spread unity via the relentless power of the monochordal, on-the-one romp groove, and this recording gives testament to its potency. Of the eleven musicians who comprised the Orkestra that night, only a handful had ever been in the same room together, not to mention ever having shared a stage, or having any clue what songs we were likely to launch into.

When you listen to this record, you’ll hear the people and the personalities at play behind the performance — exchanges of musical ideas, of mentalities, of perspectives in the truest sense: each player a prism of how they hear and see the world, reflected and refracted, eventually brought together and amplified.

Sound waves are standing waves, and when we think of sound, we far too often forget the physicality of resonance, of what it means to vibrate at the same frequency.

As Art said, as we slouched into our booth at the diner post-show, cheeseburgers in hand (or in Adam’s case, staring up at him from the table): “No one else did anything like this here tonight.”

Sit back, pour yourself a stiff drink or two, and let yourself get lost in these vines.

Happy listening ~Reed

Live At Soulshine

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Turchi - Live In Lafayette

Size: 146,0 MB
Time: 63:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues Rock, Swamp Blues
Art: Front

01. Big Mama's Door (5:21)
02. Junior's Boogie (5:53)
03. Do For You (7:12)
04. Brothers Blood (5:13)
05. Kitchen Floor (6:55)
06. Don't Let The Devil Ride (4:56)
07. Write Me A Few Lines (4:44)
08. Keep On Drinkin' (5:56)
09. Dr. Recommended (4:49)
10. Shake 'em On Down (5:22)
11. My Time Ain't Now (3:30)
12. Can't Be Satisfied (3:25)

At the crossroads of American roots music, TURCHI blends slide-guitar and storytelling into kudzu boogie, the remains of a trainwreck between Mississippi Fred McDowell, Randy Newman, and ZZ Top. The band’s debut album “Road Ends in Water” (released March 2012 on Devil Down Records) was compared to the early work of the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan in terms of songwriting, vocals, energy, and spirit, as well as with the White Stripes, Drive-By Truckers, and Black Keys.

Thirty-three states, eight months, and 50,000 miles later comes "Live in Lafayette," the band's second album, recorded Nov. 2012 in Lafayette, LA with featured guests John Troutman (The Mendoza Line/Little Band of Gold) on pedal steel and Brian Martin on Harmonica. Mixed at Ardent Studios (Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Bob Dylan, North Mississippi Allstars) and mastered by L. Nix Mastering (Stevie Ray Vaughan/Elvis/Beck), the album captures kudzu boogie in its finest form, and serves as a bridge between "Road Ends in Water" and the band's second studio album, due for release July 2013.

Live In Lafayette

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