Independent singer/songwriter/guitarist Joshua Worden
recently released his latest full-length album entitled “Always This.” The album
was written, produced an almost entirely performed by Worden, with some slight
help from Will Montgomery on drums.
The album has a very mellow, relaxed R&B sound as heard
in the opening tracks “Marrow” and “The Road.” The beats are slow as Worden’s
soft, smooth vocals put your mind at ease as in “Midnight” and “The Skies
Glowed.” The tone begins to get a little repetitive with “Embers” and “The
Turning Quiet” is a great starting point that needs some more adjustments to
make it stand-out. The album closes with “The Line,” which ads a welcomed hip-hop
rap from blxtxt to break the songs constant mellow tone.
Joshua Worden has a few shows lined-up in August, down in
the Florida/Georgia area. To find out more about Joshua, please visit his
website at joshuaworden.com.
Another independent singer/songwriter/guitarist Tomas
Doncker gathered his band together to pay tribute to blues legend Howlin’ Wolf
with a new six-song EP. Doncker has performed session work of the years with music
icons Meshell Ndegeocello, Yoko Ono, Bonnie Raitt, Ivan Neville and Corey
Glover (Living Colour) just to name a handful. The EP is just a taste of the
musical love story created by the original compositions of Howlin’ Wolf along
with original composition by Doncker and is called “Diablo Love.” The live
musical will make its debut at the NYC SummerStage in August, but for now we
get the outstanding craftsmanship of the “Howlin’ Wolf EP.”
The album is made up of five Howlin’ Wolf songs including “Spoonful,”
which was made famous by the band Cream in the late-sixties. Doncker’s voice
gives the songs an authentic sound with his ruff, gravelly vocals. Also
included are some lesser known blues classic like “Evil” and “Blind Melon
Morpheus.” Tomas adds one of his originals, “Shook Down” in the middle of the
mix that sounds as if it belonged as part of Howlin’s Wolf’s catalog. The album
finishes up with a blazing version of “Smokestack Lightning” and the pure blues
romp of “Back Door Man.”
To find out more on Tomas Doncker and his new album “The
Tomas Doncker Band’s Howlin’ Wolf EP,” please visit tomasdoncker.net.
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