Live

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Cat No: SBR0004

Release Date: 28 September 2018

Label: IDLA

Packaging Type: Digipak

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 627987031089

Genres: Blues Rock

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Raw, real and from the heart.The improv magic you hear on JW-Jones' 10th album, 'Live', is the spark that has awakened new sonic frontiers for the veteran Maple Blues Award-winning Ottawa bluesman
"I cranked up my overdrive in concert one night for fun, and it opened up this new world of ideas for me," admits the Juno-nominated Jones, whose searing axemanship has been praised by Blues Revue Magazine as "a fluid amalgam of T-Bone Walker's big, bright chords; Johnny 'Guitar' Watson's slashing leads and Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown's jazzy sting."
"I felt a new sense of freedom." That sense of freedom resonates through 'Live', an exciting collection of 11 previously-unreleased songs lovingly recorded over two nights at a sold-out Gatineau, QC theatre by producer Zach Allen, fresh off his Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy Award victory for the Taj Mahal/Keb' Mo collaboration TajMo.
"This album is a big departure for me," Jones explains. "Especially on songs like 'I Don't Believe A Word You Say' and 'Moanin' at Midnight:' both of those songs clock in at over six minutes and I'm playing that overdriven guitar in a manner that I've literally never played on record before."
As he continues to evolve as one of Canada's most versatile bluesmen, with one foot in the terra firma of the traditional blues espoused by the likes of Howlin' Wolf sideman Hubert Sumlin and harmonica legend Charlie Musselwhite and blues contemporaries Robert Cray, Jones continues to challenge and raise his standards through his recordings.
"Audiences get excited because it's all so organic," notes Jones, who stretches out on 'Live' with his Goldtop Gibson Les Paul. "The blues is such a universal language, and the fact that we never play the same solo twice just adds to that vibrant energy, which I think we really capture on this album."
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