44 Shakedown - Honkers! (2015)

Tracklist

01. Hokin'
02. One Track Love
03. Hot Little Mama
04. Yes, I'm Loving You
05. Gonna Be Your Man
06. Americano
07. Oil Well, Texas
08. Going Back To New Orleans
09. I Ain't Drunk
10. Miss Your Pretty Face
11. Six Button Benny
12. Saturday Night Fish Fry
13. The Pleasure Is All Mine
14. Can't Believe You Wanna Leave
15. It's Your Voodoo Working



It all started out a few years back, when we got together as a West coast jump blues outfit with a blues harp, played by Jaap van Waardenberg. However, the majority of us felt more attracted by that particular style of 40’s and 50’s black music that rocks hard but is still very melodic. The blues harp player went his own way; we found alto sax player Tim through the internet, and played with him for a couple of years. We also tried adding a piano for a while, but in the end were happy with the sound of just a guitar, as it creates a little more dynamic sound. It was at the premiere of our CD Atomic Jump that we ran into Louis as our additional saxophone player. He was the catalyst we needed to beef up our sound considerably. Since then we operate as a five-piece, with two horns.

You can call the music we play jump blues: it is that in-between period in the late forties and early fifties where black jazz-cats started to invent rock’n’roll, before white folk took that idea and ran with it.

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