“Balls out, unapologetic blues from the heart.”    
                                        
                                                                               Norma Martinez
                                                                               KTEP, El Paso TX

"Listening to the CD The Acoustic Blues Remedy by Randy Thurman, reminds me of the Great Robert Johnson, with nothing but a guitar and his voice. Randy does a fine job of acoustic sounds on this cd, and his voice is hauntingly from the past."

                                                                                        Delta Frank Black, October 11, 2007
                                                                         Delta Frank's Blues Blowtorch, WGLT "GLT Blues" Normal, IL


“ Randy Thurman plays his blues with the acoustic guitar like Charley Patton,    Son House and Robert Johnson that before him did, but with contemporary revitalization. From them he borrows  “ John the Revelator "and " Crossroad  Blues ", but the other songs are often personal blues arrangements with religious inspiration. Thurman’s primitive way of recording the CD “Rought Cuts” sounds like a field recording by Alan Lomax, in which the same passion and anguish seeps.”

                                                                                                                        Mieke Geukens, January 2008
                                                                                                               www.rootstime.be

Robert Thurman a.k.a. Randy Thurman was born in a small rural town in Southeast Tennessee. He was 12 years old when he first heard Jimi Hendrix, an event among others which inspired him to become a vocalist and performer, rather than immediately inspiring him to play guitar. At age 14, Robert started working at the local radio station and also formed his first band. The following years were spent performing in a succession of rock bands as a vocalist and songwriter supplemented with stints at a sheet metal factory and manual labor jobs of one kind or another. Then at age 21, he heard the album "Surfing with the Alien" by Joe Satriani and the madness began. He learned the basics first, chord progressions, scales, and etc. and then honed his shredding abilities by utilizing every spare moment for practice.

A sudden health crisis changed the direction of Robert's life and music forever, leaving him primarily housebound and captive within his own home for three years. Instead of focusing on the things he couldn’t do, he concentrated on the things that had always been his passion and refuge, and one of those things was music. With a bare minimum of resources, health issues, isolation, and an insatiable need to express himself, this time of trial ultimately steered Robert's music towards the blues; one man with one guitar on a journey.

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