Aled Clifford: Guitar and Vocals
Brennig Clifford: Drum's and backing Vocals
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The Who,Tom Waits,Creadence Clearwater Revival,The Faces,The Black Keys,Fleetwood Mac(Peter Green era)The Beatles, The Stones, The Stone Roses, The Clash, Son House, Houndog Taylor, Mississippi Fred Mcdowel, The Band, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, Robert Johnson, The Staple Singers, Sam Cooke, Little Feat, Patto,Oasis(B sides)
Everyone who comes to our gigs, late nights an later mornings.
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Henry’s Funeral Shoe is a band that I have been hearing about for a while and this debut was damn sure worth the wait in the end. A band couldn’t ask for a better sound than what was achieved on Everything’s For Sale and I feel that they are only hitting the tip of the iceberg with this one. I am sure that Henry’s Funeral Shoe and Alive Records have great things planned for us in the future and all we can do now is sit on our asses and wait patiently.Andrew Bryant - Disc Exchange
The following statement may strike you as dubious, but I stand by it: Henry’s Funeral Shoe is quite possibly the best airboat cruisin’ music since Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen.”James Greene, Jr - Crawdaddy
It didn’t take me long to mix Everything’s For Sale into my rotation. This is a great debut from the Welsh duo and I hope that they follow the lead of other two-piece blues acts and start incorporating some fresh ideas in future efforts. There is an abundance of talent here.-HearYa
Never heard of this duo from South Wales before, that’s why I researched a little. One of the first non-US groups on Alive Records but nevertheless a real well-fit. Their first record to present to the world. Henry’s Funeral Shoe delivers us some high energy blues that starts to attract a growing enthusiastic audience across Europe-Sedate Booking
The riffs are huge and compelling; these fellows have a distinct knack for getting a memorable guitar bit into the tracks. The fuzzy slide work on “Don’t Lose the Rhythm” and “Stranger Dig” is catchy and memorable; it’s a classic sound used to excellent effect here. “Stranger Dig” is one of the album’s highlights, because of that guitar work and the varied delivery in Aled’s vocals. On much of the record, that raspy growl is pushed to the max, but on “Stranger Dig” and a few other tracks, we get a subtler approach, which offers some nice diversity. The album stomps through the first nine tracks, rarely pausing to catch its breath, providing tunes that are going to keep your motorcycle boots tapping. The brothers radically alter things with the last track, “Mary’s Tune,” an acoustic ballad that shows that Henry’s Funeral Shoe has more than one gear. The wistful harmonica and brushed cymbals backing vocals devoid of any whiskey-fueled scratchiness tell us that there are some un-plumbed depths here. We’re into this album and excited to see what happens next.-Citizen Dick
Is Henry’s Funeral Shoe the Welsh answer to the White Stripes? Or to the Black Keys? How about both at once? The duo certainly plows the same guitar/drum blues duo earth as those acts, but is less pop-oriented than the former and less obsessed with Led Zeppelin than the latter. Aled Clifford is a manly but versatile vocalist whose hero seems to be Steve Marriott, rather than Robert Plant, and he’s a fine slide/boogie guitarist. His brother Brenning keeps the cans a-rockin’ and a-groovin’. With a pronounced bent towards the John Lee Hooker side of the blues fence, the Shoe have an entirely different feel than their more famous brethren, lighter of foot and heavier of tone, as heard in Second Hand Prayer and It’s a Long Way. Mary’s Tune ends the record on a folky and rather sweet note, just to show that the guys can pitch woo as well as make whoopy.Michael Toland - Sleazegrinder
Henry’s choice of footwear at bereavement may be an unusual name for a duo but it fits this Blues/Rock band of quite literally brothers from South Wales. There are no minced morsels from these pair just prime cuts of pure raw meaty riffs and kicking drums. Aled’s voice ranges from a Tom Waits growl (with just enough gravel to avoid parody) to folk singer via god old eighties style rocker. The whole albums sound is so full that you have to tell yourself, it’s just two guys, a drum kit, guitar and a few pedals. Having had the privilege of seeing them perform live, its no studio trickery the sound is that intense. Down The Line and Don’t Lose The Rhythm breath fresh life into the corpse of rock duos, Stranger Dig had me surprisingly whistling the riff and some of the work on Empty Church is just stunning. Maria Maria is slightly more commercial and has single written over it. From the chugging intro of Henry’s Funeral Shoe to the mellower Mary’s Tune, listeners are treated to some of the blackest guitar and drum work to come out of Wales, in fact the blackest thing from the Valleys since Anthracite was first mined. Amongst the feedback and crashing cymbals the most important thing that HFS bring to the party are a collection of ten fantastic, well written songs.Chris Phillips - BRFM Radio
Henry's Funeral Shoe was formed by two brothers in 2008 from South Wales, inspired and influenced by many of the albums that singer/guitarist Aled Clifford had looted from his father's vinyl collection when he was growing up. The Who, CCR, Peter Green, Robert Johnson and the Beatles were favourites, and Aled quickly became a gifted guitar player, aided and taught by Ned Edwards, a long time collaborator of Van Morrison. Aled soon played with various bands, eventually doing some recording sessions for producer Ian Grimble, and even recording at the legendary Abbey Road studios. His younger brother Brennig started playing drums at nine. At fifteen he joined a local band, learning his trade by performing covers of The Clash and Thin Lizzy before moving on to writing original material. The dexterous brothers have finally joined forces to create some of the loudest soulful rock'n'roll to come out the UK in a long time. Their debut album "Everything's For Sale" is a fun and raucous mix of heavy rock and psychedelic blues which reminds us that the U.K can produce more than great pop music, but also some amazing rock'n'roll. Don't lose the rhythm!
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Happy Thanksgiving good friends from Lexington, KY!!! Hope all is well.....We need to chat about about you touring here and us touring there! Our new record will be up over the weekend! Give it a listen and get back with us! Take Care!
Well we were talking to a lot of new people last night and tried to catch up with as many of them the next day as possible. We heard about how well your doing, that's so cool well done!
Hey hey brothers, congrats on all the Euro dates!! We're still workin' on getting over your way in the spring (march/april) just tryin to get some more cash together...Keep doin what you're doin!
Alright boys - going to see the Cruiser Tonight in London, REAL shame your not up here for a beer... sure you'll be playing with them soon, Hope all good your end. Cheers Jamie.
