Release Date: 08 December 2017
Label: Icehouse Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 097037950231
Genres: Blues
Description
Low Society, led by Mandy Lemons, is blazing new trails on the stomping grounds of Blues and Americana music. Texas Blues, Memphis Rock 'N Soul and a healthy dose of New York attitude help define the sound and spirit of their latest album, and first for Icehouse Records, "You Can't Keep A Good Woman Down". It's a diverse collection of original songs that inject new life into, while remaining firmly rooted in, the traditional music that they live and breathe. Among the albums guests are two of Memphis' best known musicians, Dr Herman Green (B.B. King and Lionel Hampton alumnus) on the saxophone and Lucero's Rick Steff on keys and accordion. The album was recorded at the historic Memphis landmark, American Recording Studio, and mastered by Stax legend, Larry Nix.
Low Society is the brainchild of blues belter Mandy Lemons, and her partner in crime, guitarist and producer Sturgis Nikides, former sideman with John Cale, of the Velvet Underground. The pair has codified their shared love of Texas and Delta Blues, soul music and rock 'n roll into their own subconscious language. Mandy sings the blues with an emotionally charged powerhouse voice that mixes original southern fried soul and northern attitude. Woven together with Sturgis Nikides blistering slide guitar they blaze their way through a veritable map of the South. Holding down the rock solid rhythm section are Memphis native sons, Mike "Drummerlife" Munn and Nick Dodson on the bass guitar.
Big City Rhythm & Blues Magazine said "these hipsters have taken southern country blues and super-charged it to a white-hot intensity!
Tracklisting
Thorbjorn Risager & The Black Tornado
Parchman Prison Prayer
Shawn Pittman
Little Walter
Jimmie Vaughan
Jimmie Vaughan
Various Artists
Memphis Minnie
