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Shake The Blues

by SONIC BLUE

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1.
The Sun Is Shining 03:28
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Long Cold Night 04:08
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3.
Rattlesnake 04:20
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How can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live 05:01
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Shake The Blues 04:08
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I Don't Need To Be Rich 04:07
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I Need Her 03:20
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Time's Getting Tougher Than Tough 03:34
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Strut 04:41
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10.
Up All Night 04:33
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about

“On this album I wanted to record some great ‘Up’ blues, songs of personal relevance and songs that referred to the hard times.” says Stephen Brayne about his second Sonic Blue band project.
So here is an album of songs of timely relevance – original and vintage songs which refer to the hard times of recent years – balanced by the ‘Up’ side. “Sometimes you’ve just got to get into some music and lose your blues and that’s what Shake The Blues is all about. ‘Shake It Now!’ The great healer!” .

Blind Alfred Reed’s song, ‘How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live’ , from the Great Depression of 1928, notably covered by Ry Cooder in the 1970s, seems to be just as relevant today. As does Jimmy Witherspoon’s classic hard-up blues ‘Times Getting Tougher Than Tough’. “I was also very happy to cover ‘I Don’t Need To Be Rich’, a great song by Graham Cousins, a friend and musical collaborator, which also deals with the tricky question of money - some have too little, some have too much. And when is enough enough? Who do you trust?”

Another original ‘Up All Night’, “ deals with recent tribulations in the world and the fact we all have to suffer sometimes
but takes a brighter look at the future. the sun keeps rising and the world keeps turning - ideas illuminated brilliantly by the slide guitar of Malcolm Hine and the vocals of Sarah Brown (Simple Minds/George Michael/Roxy Music/Simply Red)”.

And Jimmy Reed must have been feelin’ good when he wrote the ‘The Sun Is Shining’. “He was all dressed up and had pockets full of dough”. ‘Long Cold Night’ has that brassy Daptone style groove, and the instrumental ‘Strut’ invites you to do just that - and you should.

credits

released November 8, 2023

Sonic Blue
Stephen Brayne - Guitar, Harmonica, Lead Vocals
Facebook @sonicblueband

Musicians :
The Sun Is Shining
Richard Martin, saxophones, Mick Parker, Hammond, Audra McKenzie, BVs, Dom Clark - Trumpet
Long Cold Night
Mississippi MacDonald, lead guitar, Richard Martin, saxophones, Phil Dearing, keyboards, Dom Clark - Trumpet
Audra McKenzie – Backing Vocals
Rattlesnake
Geoff Everett, bottleneck guitar, Mick Parker, piano, Tom Monks, piano
How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live
Richard Jones, accordion, Derek Holt, bass guitar and backing vocals, Phil Dearing, piano
Shake The Blues
Richard Martin, saxophone, Mick Parker, piano, Sarah Brown, vocals
I Don’t Need To Be Rich
Richard Martin, saxophone, Phil Dearing, organ, Derek Holt, BVs,
Richard Marcangelo, keyboards, Audra McKenzie – backing vocals
I Need Her
Malcolm Hine, guitar, Richard Marcangelo, Hammond
Times Getting Tougher Than Tough
Tim Richards, piano, Malcolm Hine, guitar
Strut
Malcolm Hine, bottleneck guitar
Up All Night
Phil Dearing, keyboards, Malcolm Hine, bottleneck guitar, Sarah Brown, vocal

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SONIC BLUE London, UK

Sonic Blues is the band project of south east London guitarist/singer/songwriter Stephen Brayne, whose pedigree takes in twenty years of playing the Blues circuit in the UK, and beyond right back to his days on the Prog circuit in The Fox. Today he tours with the ever inventive Sonic Blue rhythm section of Steve Shone and Richard Marcangelo plus the guitar of Matt Withey. ... more

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