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Released in 2017 on Ruf Records, Neckbone Stew is the latest twist in a fascinating life story.
“For me,” he says, “it sits on top. The latest is always the greatest. I was in the mood, like John L. Hooker said.”
If Neck Bone Stew brings together a variety of genres, then it also unites a dream-team of musicians who helped these 13 songs soar. Led by the multi-instrumental talents of Wilson himself on vocals, guitar and percussion, long-standing Trio members Cesare Nolli (guitar) and Paolo Legramandi (bass) brought fire and flair to sessions at Italy’s Fire Place Room. “These guys are just incredible musicians and great to work with,” reflects the bandleader. “I have some special guests, too. The phenomenal Ruthie Foster. Mr. Staffan Astner. One of my blues heroes, the great Eric Bibb. And this CD is produced by the Goosebumps Brothers. As for the songs, they run the gamut. There’s the rolling acoustic blues of Cross Creek Road. The exuberant brass lines, wah guitar and bad-luck lyric of 7 Years. The melancholy clipped chords of Damn If I Do, with its depiction of a lover brought his knees (“You got your hooks so deep in my heart/You got me crawlin’, but still you won’t stop”).
The album’s musical variety, meanwhile, is exemplified by the magical moment when the title track switches from an aching slide-blues into a reggae strut, with lyrics describing a lover who “got them big old hips, look just like two battleships”. Wilson is equally adept on the sun kissed balladry of I Just Need A Smile, which pairs lush chords with a lyric that implores us to ditch our gadgets and reengage with our humanity. “It’s all about life,” decides the bandleader of the album’s subject matter. “But there are two things you need in a good blues CD – a woman and some food.”

Neckbone Stew

Tom Cat

Crosscreek Road

The American South casts a powerful spell. The sons and daughters of those deep states might stray from their hometowns, make their fortunes and families overseas. But wherever they roam, the South is there under their skin – and one day it will call them home. So it was with Deep In My Soul: the album that lured Big Daddy Wilson from his base in Europe back to the US motherland. “It was like a homecoming,” he says. “To take it back home like this, back to my roots, was very sweet and special.” 
Released in 2019 on Ruf Records, Deep In My Soul marks a triumphant US return for the North Carolina-born bluesman, who made his name on the European scene with acclaimed albums like Love Is The Key (2009) Thumb A Ride (2011), I’m Your Man (2013), Time (2015) and 2017’s Neck Bone Stew. The seeds of this new album were sown in May 2018, when Wilson travelled to Memphis, Tennessee, for preproduction alongside respected guitarist Laura Chavez and rock-steady bassist Dave Smith. And all the pieces fell into place when the bandleader started work with Grammy-winning producer Jim Gaines at his Bessie Blue Studios in Stantonville.
Completing the album at the iconic FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Wilson was aware of walking in the footsteps of the greats. But even in a recording facility that once hosted titans from Etta James to Duane Allman, these new songs measured up. There’s the brassy soul of I Know. The heartfelt ripple of Mississippi Me. Wilson takes us from the rubberband funk of Tripping On You and the reggae-flavoured I Got Plenty to the funky wah-driven Voodoo and the slow-burn atmosphere of Crazy World. “Normally, I go with the acoustic vibe,” he explains. “But I was shooting for a soulful, more electric vibe with a band on this one.” 
As for Wilson’s lyrics, Deep In My Soul addresses love in all its forms: “Voodoo is about a holy man who don't believe in voodoo, but this woman got some type of hold of him that he can't break free from. Hold On To Our Love is about a mixed couple trying to hold on to the love of their life despite the pressure from this world. I Know is when you found the love of your life, everything inside of you tells you that, no doubt about it. So you see – it’s all about love. It’s always about love.” 
Some things change. Others stay the same. And with Deep In My Soul, Big Daddy Wilson’s music and career come full-circle in style. “I see it as a journey,” he says of his incredible backstory. “It’s the journey of a man who found himself deep in this beautiful music called the blues and finally, after 25 years, made it back home…

Deep In My Soul

I Know

Quickly, oh so quickly did we take Rhonda to our hearts, as the debut album "Raw Love" was released just two and a half years ago. Northern Soul lads, Soulpunks and pop fans alike were infected with this cool, nonchalant quintet fronted outstanding singer Milo Milone. "Raw Love" was a hip tip for those in the know in 2014.
For Milo Milone (vox, git.), Ben Schadow (lead git.), JanFabricius (bass), Gunnar Riedel (drums) and Offer Stock (organ) the last two years have been a wild ride. The release of "Raw Love" was followed by a heavy touring schedule. Situations and stories that they’ve experienced in these two years are mirrowed in the new album "Wire". 
A song such as "Off the Track", already looking like a soul dance floor packer for 2017, has a different style to, for example, "Something Good", which was written and recorded towards the end of the recording session.
The only song on the album not written by the band, is the (generally unknown) classic by The Nerves: "When You Find Out".
A song somewhere between the beginning of punk in the USA and power pop. This song is indicative of transition in sound made by the band from the first album to this one.
As Milo said: "Since we formed this band, what`s happened has happened! We met up, wrote songs and recorded them, in what seemed like no time at all. Now we had the luxury of taking our time and deciding exactly where we want to go. And that we as a band have determined us to write more refined and subtile songs than the little dirty soul ones we’ve been doing up until now!"
The biggest clout on the ear is, without doubt, the use of a full orchestra - the german film orchestra Babelsberg, no less, with whom Rhonda played a sold out concert in November 2015. It was clear to all, that this was a way forward for the band and not just a one-off mega gig.
With or without an orchestra, Rhonda impress and unite music lovers of different generations and taste whenever they play live. Their studio recordings serve to prove the point even further. It’s all about the songs.

"The second record is deeper, we know each other better and it is about the bands formed through our shared experiences," says Milo, "which gives us more space, not only to sound cooler, bigger and more polished, but to develope the subtiler side of the band. "The darker sides to our music which til now we’ve only been able to bring out live ,on stage. Not just a concept but also lovingly thought through. that was our goal in the studio.
Rhonda’s second album "Wire" is a coupling of their unhindered innocence from the days when they first formed with a massive of verve and soul.
A truly beautiful voice, full of emotion and all the colours under the sun with just the right amount of vibrato and sex rounding it off and you have Milo. Add to her the four men, with their cool, laid back sound and you have Rhonda`s recipe for vibes.

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