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CD22
RICH HARPER BLUES BAND
DON'T THINK JUST PLAY
Mega Truth Records
Out of the smog of LA comes the Rich Harper Blues Band, one of the meanest blues bands you're likely to hear. Rich, a self-taught guitarist was influenced by some of the great bluesmen of our time, B.B. and Freddie King, Rory Gallagher, Clapton, and the greatest person to ever slide a coricidin medicine bottle along a neck, Duane Allman. Like Duane, Rich also uses a coricidin bottle for playing slide.
The album features ten tracks with five originals by Rich Harper. Don't Think Just Play opens with No More and Rich playing some wicked slide followed by his blistering fretwork on I Love The Woman, then some more slide but this time on the acoustic track Blue Eyed Blues. Some of the other tracks include Allen Toussaint's Get Out Of My Life, Woman and Rory Gallagher's Hands Off. The album finishes with the Trad. Guitar Rag, a beautiful slide piece in the piedmont blues style.
Whether he's tearing it up on his guitar or punching out his heartfelt vocals on songs like The Thrill Is Gone or She's On Her Way Up, Rich Harper is definitely a bluesman to be reckoned with.
Don't Think Just Play is full throttle blues that will rock you!
Eric Black
Blue Country 101 FM
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