Astoria, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/07/2011 -- "Glenn Patrik plays Kansas City blues...take a listen to his latest effort- it breathes the genre. His riffs scorch; his vocals wrap around the stories and bleed a blues rasp...Glenn Patrik's sound is all his own." THE ALTERNATE ROOT
Longtime blues guitarist Glenn Patrik releases "Original Blues", the follow-up to his critically-acclaimed previous CD, "Nuthin' But A Thang!" (both on Shakehouse Records). Street Release Date for Original Blues: January 4, 2011.
"I took this CD a little more contemporary (in sound) than the previous two albums" explains Patrik. "The Juke Joint pictured on the cover of the CD is the very spot where I got my blues credibility. It was variously know as H&M BBQ, Harris BBQ, Grace's (what I called it) and to some, simply, after hours. It was on Wood Ave. In a very rough section of Kansas City, Kansas and featured live Blues every Friday and Saturday night, beginning around 10 P.M., from 1968 until 1993. Anybody that was anybody came through that joint. Albert Collins, Bobby Bland, The Temptations, Otis Clay, Duke Robillard, Guns 'N Roses etc...When I first started hanging out, there was one other fair-skin man that was a regular, but I was the only fair-skin musician. Years later, that all changed. I took that picture on my way out of town moving to California, and the building was demolished soon after. Track 3, "Down To The BBQ," is about Grace's Blues Party. The last track, "Dance The Blues," is about the last juke joint to close in Kansas City, Kansas (in 2006), the Club Paradox, in an even MORE dangerous part of town. Ah, home sweet home."
Original Blues features Glenn Patrik on all vocals and guitars; Bob Gross (bass), longtime Patrik band mates Rusty Hall (keyboards), Thomas "Freight Train" Walker (drums, vocals), and "Downtown" Michael Brown (of legendary doo-wop band Sha Na Na) on saxophone and vocals. "This album is dedicated to the memory of Charles "Pat" Patrick Morrissey, one of Kansas City's trumpet greats, and a man that gave me a chance".
Title: Original Blues
Tracks: 11 (All songs ©2010 G. Patrik, BMI Willie Peck Publishing, BMI)
Label: Shakehouse Records¨
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Musicians
Glenn Patrik - Vocals/Guitar
Bob Gross - Bass
Rusty Hall - Keyboards
Thomas "Freight Train" Walker - Drums/Vocals
"Downtown" Michael Brown - Saxophone/Vocals
The Shakehouse Singers are:
Dennis "Monk" Andriaccio
Shawna Pitcher
Daphne Winters
"Rockin'" Billy Gress
The Tracks
1. Telephone Line
2. Stuff Goin' On
3. Down To The Bar BQ
4. Wild Blues Child
5. How Would I Know
6. To The Ground
7. Shiny Black
8. Where's The Money Gone
9. Anywhere
10. Better Days
11. Dance The Blues
Website: http://www.glennpatrik.com/
Music: http://glennpatrik.com/media/mp3/03-Down-To-The-Barb-BQ.mp3?link=1