Fiona Boyes - Blues For Hard Times (2011) FLAC

Fiona Boyes - Blues For Hard Times (2011) FLAC

(with Bob Margolin & Kaz Kazanoff)

Fiona Boyes can fingerpick an acoustic guitar or play an electric and front a band. She is also a robust vocalist who thrills with her soft rasps. It seems that there isn’t anything she can’t do. For these reasons each year she receives a Blues Music Award nomination.

Rabson continues to forge her own unique path in the blues world with Not Alone, an album that features the guitar work and vocals of another low-key blues legend, Bob Margolin. Nor has she done so unnoted, as no less a blues god than Pinetop Perkins has proclaimed that Boyes is the only female player since Memphis Minnie that has truly knocked his socks off, to which Hubert Sumlin has added "She's got it!—I played with 'em all, and she's got it!" Yow! That's like being a political commentator and having Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky laud your virtues.

Track Listing

1. Nickels & Dimes 2:59
2. Chain Gang 3:39
3. Guys Be Wise 5:06
4. Mean World 4:15
5. High Time 4:07
6. Baptised In Muddy's Sweat 4:57
7. I Let The Blues In 3:05
8. Maybe I Could Be Your Girl 3:18
9. Drink To Your Health 3:01
10. God & The Devil 4:37
11. She Could Play That Thing 2:31
12. Pony Ride 3:07
13. No Friends 2:49
14. Grandma's Advice 2:56 15. The Preacher 3:26
16. Jesus Took Possession 3:50