Bubbles Brown - Mt. Gilead (2015)

Tracklist

01. Bought & Sold
02. Ashtray Alleyway
03. Cornerstone Blues
04. Chicken On the Bone Rag
05. Paper Plane Blues
06. Hop in the Line
07. Electric Mainline
08. Highway Time
09. Touch Me Don't Love Me
10. Mary Anne's in Love
11. Sugar Bowl Blues
12. Beehive Blues
13. Bloodshot Moon
14. Shake What Your Mother Gave You
15. Let You Down Gently

Bubbles Brown is a two-piece early blues outfit from Chicago, IL. Bubbles (Guitar, Vocals) and Washboard Ben (Percussion, Vocals) cut their teeth on the blues deep in the subways of Chicago, busking for change and the occasional dollar. Using only a guitar, washboard, sock cymbal, assorted percussion and a suitcase bass drum -the duo and their lean, archaic setup evoke the home-spun, kitchen-sink aesthetic of rural, pre-war blues and country, while blending into it an aggressive and modern electricity to create a sound at-once both nostalgic and distinctly progressive. The Bubbles Brown sound defies expectations, and their rich and reverent brand of the blues, country and jazz of the 20s and 30s greatly exceeds the sum of its parts, transforming stages of any size into roadside juke joints and skeptics into believers.

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