MICK RALPHS BLUES BAND - Should Know Better - Live At The Musician

Kategorie: CD-Reviews | Genre: Blues/Bluesrock | Heft: Jahrgang 2014, eclipsed Nr. 159 / 4-2014 | VÖ-Jahr: 2014 | Wertung: 7/10 | Label: Unruly | Autor: ML


Mott The Hoople and Bad Company are the bands with which guitarist Mick Ralphs, who just turned 70, has entered rock history books. When the boogie group Mott The Hoople became a glam band with David Bowie's Schützenhilfe, Ralphs left Ian Hunter and Co. to found Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke and Boz Burrell, one of the most successful bluesy arena rock bands of the seventies. With his two former bands there are short concert tours from time to time, but that doesn't fill the full-blooded musician Ralphs, so that he joined together with some colleagues to the Mick Ralphs Blues Band in 2011. The funky Bluesrock-Combo is primarily conceived as a live band. And so Ralphs and Co. can bring some of their own numbers and great interpreted standards, like Willie Dixon's "Evil", to the club stages. "Should Know Better" was recorded live in Leicester last year. And they certainly don't sound like a hobby band, which is due to Ralphs, slide guitarist Jim Maving and the rough voice of Son Maxwell.

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