No run-of-the-mill grind, but a heady cocktail, where the best psychedelic elements from 1960’s San Francisco meet Mississippi blues in a garage with serious intentions. The phat bass lines of Honey B. and the funky and rich drumming of Jaska Lukkarinen builds a house, where T-Bone Ed’s fiery slide takes no prisoners. The cherry on the cake comes courtesy of Honey B’s singing. Think updated Memphis Minnie and you’re close! In the course of twelve albums their style has matured from rootsy blues through rocking R&B and psychedelic experimental rock to today’s kaleidoscopic garage blues that fills their currrent, excellent Alien Blues album.
Formed in 1982, Honey B. & T-Bones have been a formidable force, not only in their native Finland but all across Europe. The band was founded by Aija "Honey B." Puurtinen (vocals, bass) and Esa Kuloniemi (guitars, vocals), and they have been the consistent core of the band throughout the years. They began as a semi-traditional blues group, offering a mix of covers and original songs performed with a distinctive style. Deeply attuned to current music trends as well as the blues traditions of such acknowledged masters as Elmore James and lesser-known legends like Frankie Lee Sims, they took no hostages in their incendiary arrival on the scene. The smoky range of Puurtinen's vocals, which can vary from a fluid blues howl to Afro-pop scatting, and the naturalistic mastery of Kuloniemi's instrument of choice proved a killer combination that has expanded and improved in leaps over the following decades.
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1. Shake That Thing
2. Alien Blues
3. Sharpshooter
4. Superman
5. Baby Don't!
6. Fresh Up The Well
7. Midnite
8. Everybody's Carryin' A Gun
9. Midnite Pt.2
10. I Could See The Door Was Open
11. Animal Tracks
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