Rocks And Gravel The New CD release by
Andy Broad. Matt Beckwith Adam Franklin
More information about this CD and the trio can be found at www.rocksandgravel.co.uk
Broke Down Engine The Second Solo release by
Andy Broad.
The sleave notes from the CD:
This, my second solo CD, has been a long time coming, waiting for the right opportunity to capture the music as I perform it. The recording session at Little Village Studios in September 2005 captured the live spirit, with all 17 tracks recorded in one
day, and no more than two takes each! The material includes some new originals, some songs new to me and revisits some old friends, but from totally new directions. As ever plenty of slide and fingerpicking with inspiration drawn from the whole gamut of blues greats, and one track even gives a nod the Indian slide "guitar" of Mohin Bhat!
I'm really pleased with this CD, hope you like it too - Andy Broad
Andy Broad has, for many years, been involved in the BITS area with Burnt Ice and various other kaz and blues combos. This album is Andy's
second solo effort and it's tee-riff-ick. Andy is a fine finger picker, slide man and flat picker and has a convincing vocal style. The tracks include a nice mix of traditional songs from the likes
of Willie Dixon, Son House, Fury Lewis and many more (there are 17 tracks and over an hour of playing time).
Some of the tracks are Andy's own work and I particularly like 'Sweet Jayne' and ode to Andy's Lady. Very nice stuff with a great deal of enthusiastic foot stomping!. IM
From The Roots On Down was the first CD released by
Andy Broad. It's 15 tracks cover a broad range of acoustic blues styles, mixing
Robert Johnson with Lightning Hopkins, Elmore James with B.B. King, Earl King with Eric Bibb. There are
6 original songs includeing the first track "Morning Sun" and the the title track. 10 tracks
are played on a Mathew Carter acoutsic guitar and 5 are played using slide on a 1939 Kalamazoo L6.
Live! At The Bullfrog Blues Club
The first two performances that
Burnt Ice
gave at the Bulfrog Blues Club were so strong that it was decided to record the third!
So here is the distinctive Live sound of Portsmouth's funkiest blues band on CD at last.
The First Week In April
An anthology of jazz guitar. Phil Jones & Andy Broad.
Recorded in April 2005 at Bebops Music, this CD features a selection from Phil Jones and Andy Broad regular set.
Including numbers taken from the greats of jazz guitar as well as a few jazz standards.
Taking inspiration from the great delta players such as Robert Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Son House and Mississippi John Hurt, he combines their raw syncopation with the sounds of Chicago (e.g. Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf) and the modern song writing approach of the likes of Robert Cray welding the whole into a powerful music for the modern day.
Equally at home on Acoustic and Electric guitar, playing both slide and fretted styles Andy considers his music to be Urban rather than Country Blues, after all he lives in the City Of Portsmouth and has never been near a cotton field in his life! The subject matter of his music reflects this urban perspective, whilst remaining very much in the traditions of the music.
Since becoming a fully professional musician in 1989 Andy has been developing his solo style. Swapping between acoustic and electric guitar his distinctive rhythmic style has been forged by the pragmatic approach of "getting out on the street" and playing the blues. The solo performance (occasionally accompanied by a harmonica or sax player) is where Andy's real strengths lie. Freed from the rigid structures of band life Andy plays in rhythmic metres that would give any drummer or bass player a headache but which follow the ebb and flow of the emotions of the blues. And, be it happiness or sadness, joy or lament emotion is what the blues is about! His singing continually strengthens and he can produce any thing from a deep emotive growl to a high melodic falsetto. The solo context is also where Andy's slide guitar comes to the fore. His impressive technique enables him to craft his own self penned material as well as rearrange the songs of others in ways that make them completely his own. A strong example of the first is the title track of the CD "From The Roots On Down". His unique arrangement of "Broke Down Engine" worked up by listening to a Dylan version a of Blind Willie McTell song is an excellent example of the second.
Hi Andy - Thanks for adding me into the mix here. Yea, my time gets squashed... so much to do... hard to keep up with everything. I really love the community at IAC and definitely hope to have more time there... until then, I really appreciate you connecting here. More chances to say hello.
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