Ruf Records artist: Meena - Try Me - New Release Review

I have been listening to the newest release, Try Me, by Meena. The recording contains 9 original tracks as well as a few classics and Meena is backed by Dave Smith on bass, Steve Potts on drums, Rick Steff on keys, and Chris Fillmore on guitar. First up is the title track, James Brown's classic Try Me. Meena is backed on vocals by Vickie Atkins, Sandy Carroll and Amyee Bragg who give it a genuine soul flavor. Guest artist Joanne Shaw Taylor plays a beautiful melodic solo staying in character with the tune. Send Me A Doctor is a rock track with Eric Sardinas contributing some cool slide guitar flare. Put Your Hands Out Of My Pocket is a solid soul fused blues track showing Meena's vocal range and giving Chris Fillmore a chance to play some pretty tasty guitar riffs. This Song Is For You would work nicely on the airwaves with a classic hook and memorable tune. Again Fillmore plays some tasty guitar riffs topping up an already strong entry. Meena belts out an enriched version of I'd Rather Go Blind and Fillmore again plays a tasty guitar solo. On Let Your Sweet Love Shine On Me, Meena picks the tempo with a Zydeco rhythm. I Shoot You Down again features Eric Sardinas on slide guitar and he gives it a pretty good workout. The final track, Just As I Am, is the best track on the recording featuring Shakura S'Aida as a contrast to Meena and Coco Montoya really spices up the track with his red hot guitar soloing.

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Live in Hard - Blue Monday Blues Band

To understand what has it with the phenomenon BLUE BLUES MONDAY TAPE on itself, we must hear first of all an investigation of the etymological genesis of subtitle belonging to tape: Westcoast Jumpblues at its Best of all!

We prim Vorarlberger are not to us probably completely about that in the clear that we really live on the west coast. On the one hand, our federal state moves on massive mountain coasts and along river runs. To the other it concludes just westwards with a federal state that could one day see neither the roots of the Chicago-Blues, nor the origin of the swing.For it Central Europe was away at the middle of 19-th century simply too far from the American south states. Yes, and the time turns in the Austrian west just her own rounds.

1987 the urgently necessary history writes in addition suddenly completely from only.


And the Blue Monday blues tape remains loyal for now 25 years of this history. Who compares the old pictures of the combo to the topical press photos, sees the exterior change from hippieskem Zausgewand to father's clean linen suit, from Kneipern and sunglasses to the patent leather shoe and the gallows tie. Nevertheless, the prescription remains the same one: Dance and jump on the west coast of Austria, to a form of blues which knows his origins, but the amusing confusion of the native country never forgets.
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The Blues and a Half - Christian Dozzler & Lazy Roosters

Christian Dozzler (born September 22, 1958, Vienna, Austria) is a blues, boogie woogie and zydeco multi-instrumentalist and singer from Austria, now based in the Dallas/Fort Worth (Texas) area. He plays piano, harmonica, accordion and organ, and writes most of his recorded material. He has been nicknamed "Vienna Slim".
Dozzler took classical piano lessons from the age of 5. He started teaching himself to play blues and boogie woogie on the piano after he heard this music on the radio at age 14. Eventually, he also learned playing the harmonica and guitar, and formed the 'Backyard Bluesband' in 1976, while still in high school. In 1984 he got called to co-front Austria's 'Mojo Blues Band', and toured and recorded with them until 1993. From 1993 until 2000, he led his own band 'Christian Dozzler & The Blues Wave'. In 2000 he relocated to the United States and was keyboardist for the Larry Garner band from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for two years. He settled in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, area in 2002 and continued his solo career. As of 2010, he performs mostly solo piano blues in North America and Europe, but also plays with Texas blues bands like Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets, Mike Morgan and the Crawl or 'Hash Brown & The Browntones' on a regular basis.