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CD05
SHANNON CURFMAN
LOUD GUITATRS, BIG SUSPICIONS
(Arista)
It wasn't long ago that Jonny Lang burst onto the blues scene with his debut album. Now hot on his heels from his hometown of Fargo, North Dakota comes another super hot blues guitarist in the shape of a fourteen year-old girl.
Shannon Curfman first sang on stage when she was seven, but didn't pick the guitar until the ripe old age of ten! She got to meet Jeff Healy at The Fargo Blues Festival and jammed with him for several hours. All she wanted to do after that was start a band, and she did just that at eleven.
Now, a few years down the road after honing her chops this teenager is about to set the world on fire. She released her album Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions earlier this year on an indie label but it wouldn't be long before she would be signed by Arista who re-released her debut album in September. Shannon Curfman is turning a lot of heads as she burns her way across the U.S. promoting Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions.
The music on Loud Guitars…. is in the blues rock vien of Lang and Shepherd but what Curfman has over the aforementioned is that she can sing. She belts out these songs like a seasoned veteran of thirty years or more, and her guitar playing will snap your brain. The album features eleven tracks, seven of them by Shannon including Love Me Like That co-written with Jonny Lang who plays lead guitar on three tracks. The first six tracks go at a blistering pace before the mood changes with a couple of bluesy ballads, I Don't Make Promises (I Can't Break), and a Sheryl Crow track Hard To Make A Stand. What comes next is the best cover of The Weight I can ever remember hearing. There are many highlights on this album, from Shannon's growling vocals to her brilliant but economic fretwork. Best blues tracks are Playing With Fire, Few And Far Between, I'm Coming Home, and my favourite track No Riders.
Eric Black
Blue Country 101FM
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