Ian Siegal & The Mississippi Mudbloods - Candy Store Kid (2012) [CD Rip]

Personnel:
Vocals, Guitar – Ian Siegal
Guitar, Sitar, Mandocello, Bass – Luther Dickinson
Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Guitar – Cody Dickinson
Guitar, Bass, Vocals [Additional] – Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garry Burnside
Backing Vocals – Sharisse Norman, Shontelle Norman, Stefanie Bolton

Ladies and Gentlemen: Ian Siegal has entered the building. If you know the name, but not the game, it’s high time you made his acquaintance. He’s the multiple British Blues Awards winner and hot tip of everyone from Mojo to Classic Rock. He’s the songwriter whose recent CD releases sound like career peaks, but are only the start. From one night to the next, he might be a solo acoustic performer or a blood-and-thunder bandleader.

Siegal is known as a bluesman, but it’s just one shade in the palette of an artist who slips between continents, eras and expectations. They say you can’t sing the blues until you’ve lived the life, and when Ian Siegal steps up to the mic, you can hear the slings and arrows. Recent years have seen the songwriter catch fire, with British Blues Awards raining down and consecutive nominations in 2012 & 2013 for Contemporary Album of The Year in the Blues Music Awards - in effect, the Grammys of the Blues.