Rowland Jones - LIVE

Rowland Jones

'His music is .. blues influenced Americana with, a fair smattering of Jazz and straight forward singer-songwriter fare. On an enjoyable album, stand out tracks for me are the chunky backbeat driven 'Don't Play With Fire', supple guitar stylings of 'Where's The Why?' and the ruefully tongue in cheek name dropping 'Never Been To Memphis'. FATEA

'His music is .. blues influenced Americana with, a fair smattering of Jazz and straight forward singer-songwriter fare. On an enjoyable album, stand out tracks for me are the chunky backbeat driven 'Don't Play With Fire', supple guitar stylings of 'Where's The Why?' and the ruefully tongue in cheek name dropping 'Never Been To Memphis'. FATEA magazine (https://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/)

'An album that will immediately and easily appeal to lovers of genuinely good quality modern Blues’ Blues Town Music (Netherlands)

An album well worth discovering, performed by an experienced blues man, who knows exactly what to do with this music' Blues Matters (UK)

'Sometimes simple things are best - the more you simplify, the more precise you have to be. ...When all you have to rely on are your acoustic guitar and your voice, no such backup exists. There’s no safety net. You’re walking a tightrope of timbre and tone: an exacting balancing act.

Rowland Jones performs it on his latest Live album, featuring eleven original songs with sophisticated, spot-on lyrics (“Still the Blues,” “Squeeze Me Right,” “How It Is”) and sophistication born of a decades-long and unwavering love affair with blues music. Blues Blast (US)

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