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).

Eye Of The Storm mc
Eye Of The Storm gofile

---

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).

Murder Creek

---

Wicked Grin - 2 albums: Shame On Me / Down To The Corner

Album: Shame On Me
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:16
Size: 115.1 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:18] 1. Outta Time Train
[4:20] 2. Looking Down
[4:55] 3. Drop Down Mama
[5:05] 4. Cry
[6:01] 5. Down On Love
[3:36] 6. The Sister Who Will
[3:47] 7. Time And Space
[5:07] 8. Two Time Boogie
[3:29] 9. Your Turn To Cry
[4:31] 10. Shame On Me
[5:02] 11. Heaven

Wicked Grin has been on the scene since 2003, honing their skills at festivals and clubs throughout Ontario and Quebec. They are a hard hitting blues outfit who describe their music as "Blues With Bite". Their latest CD, "Shame On Me" is a collection of tunes exploring love and loss (with the odd humorous encounter). Wicked Grin is led by guitarist/singer/ songwriter Murray Kinsley. Killer guitar, a veteran harp player, raucous and wailing in all the right places, a super-tight bassist, and a hot young drummer – and you get full-tilt blues with a groove that just won’t quit. The Ottawa Citizen describes them as: "designed for blues lovers who appreciate a high level of musicianship". They are Ottawa's representative at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN., in January 2014.
~Blues With Bite.

Shame On Me mc
Shame On Me zippy

---

Album: Down To The Corner
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:12
Size: 137.8 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:56] 1. Too Little Too Late
[4:11] 2. High Steppin' Mama
[4:06] 3. Caldonia
[5:34] 4. Boom Boom
[7:10] 5. The Devil Came Knockin'
[4:35] 6. Midnight Howl
[4:24] 7. Don't Turn Your Heater Down
[3:27] 8. Down To The Corner
[4:18] 9. My Baby's Got A Thing
[7:25] 10. Midnight In Memphis
[5:07] 11. Walkin' Blues
[5:53] 12. Rocket 88

Wicked Grin has been together performing high energy blues since 2001. Down To The Corner fully captures their mix of originals and blues covers done the Wicked Grin way. Guitar driven and exciting. Never a dull moment.

Down To The Corner mc
Down To The Corner zippy

---

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.

Stormy Water mc
Stormy Water zippy

---

Wicked Grin - Shame On Me

Size: 117,6 MB
Time: 50:12
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2013
Styles: Blues Rock, Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front

01. Outta Time Train (4:16)
02. Looking Down (4:19)
03. Drop Down Mama (4:55)
04. Cry (5:05)
05. Down On Love (6:00)
06. The Sister Who Will (3:35)
07. Time And Space (3:47)
08. Two Time Boogie (5:07)
09. Your Turn To Cry (3:29)
10. Shame On Me (4:30)
11. Heaven (5:04)

Wicked Grin has been on the scene since 2003, honing their skills at festivals and clubs throughout Ontario and Quebec.
They are a hard hitting blues outfit who describe their music as "Blues With Bite". Their latest CD, "Shame On Me" is a collection of tunes exploring love and loss (with the odd humorous encounter). Wicked Grin is led by guitarist/singer/ songwriter Murray Kinsley. Killer guitar, a veteran harp player, raucous and wailing in all the right places, a super-tight bassist, and a hot young drummer – and you get full-tilt blues with a groove that just won’t quit.
The Ottawa Citizen describes them as: "designed for blues lovers who appreciate a high level of musicianship".
They are Ottawa's representative at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, TN., in January 2014.
Blues With Bite.

Shame On Me

---

Wicked Grin - Down To The Corner

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 59:48
Size: 136.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[3:53] 1. Too Little Too Late
[4:11] 2. High Steppin' Mama
[4:06] 3. Caldonia
[5:30] 4. Boom Boom
[7:10] 5. The Devil Came Knockin'
[4:31] 6. Midnight Howl
[4:24] 7. Don't Turn Your Heater Down
[3:23] 8. Down To The Corner
[4:12] 9. My Baby's Got A Thing
[7:25] 10. Midnight In Memphis
[5:03] 11. Walkin' Blues
[5:51] 12. Rocket 88

Wicked Grin performed at the Ottawa International BluesFest 2006 and 2011, appeared as a duo at the Ottawa International BluesFest 2008, 2009 and 2010 and performed at the Kingston Blues Festival 2008 and 2009 and 2011.
They were finalists in the Ottawa Blues Society "Road to Memphis" competition 2008 and 2009.

Their cd "Down To The Corner" was released in March of 2011 to rave reviews and airplay. The disc features 12 tunes six of which are original. Formed in late 2003 around the fierce vocals and stellar guitar work of Murray Kinsley, driven by the rhythm section to die for of Leigh-Anne Stanton and Liam Melville, and with the addition of veteran blues man Rod Williams on harp and vocals Wicked Grin combines blues, groove, rock and a little funk to give you Blues With Bite.

Wicked Grin has been together performing high energy blues since 2001. Down To The Corner fully captures their mix of originals and blues covers done the Wicked Grin way. Guitar driven and exciting. Never a dull moment.

Down To The Corner

---