New album by this great Texas blues-rock band, originally The Smokin 'Joe Kubek Band featuring Bnois King, and is now called only Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King, and entitled "Have Blues Will Travel."
The disc is the second for the Alligator label, but the twelfth in his already long career, not counting a couple of unofficial records also bandied around .-
The album is produced by Joe Kubek and Alligator label president, Bruce Iglau, and was recorded at Nomad Recording Studios in Carrollton, Texas.
addition of Joe Kubek, who plays lead guitar, rhythm and slide, and Bnois King, who also sings and plays rhythm guitar and solo, accompanying them on this album John Morris on bass and Adrian Marchi on drums.
The drive offers more than basically the same as the earlier works, it is a tremendous dose of blues / rock jeans, with that very special counterpoint between the aggressive sound of Joe Kubek and jazzier of Bnois King, and sung with the voice so personal and special
own Bnois King .- The album features spectacular moments, as with the initial "Have blues, will travel" which is a boogie-style huge ZZ Top, "Out of body, out of mind", "One step at a time" or the theme that closes the album "What a sight to see."
There is also space for the typical Texas blues as "RU4 Real?", In which the pair is out, leaning on the powerful and great rhythm section that accompanies them, or super slow songs like "Shadows in the Dark" or " Wishful thinking ", which goes out to Joe Kubek slide guitar, getting almost to weep and mourn his guitar.
All this forms a great job, still in the line of what this great band has been doing for many years now, and although not offering anything different does not matter much, because what they do great and that's more than enough to make us enjoy those who adore his music, and I love the music of Smokin 'Joe Kubek & BNOIS KING, that you want to tell you. Texas Blues-Rock from many many carats .-
As I find on youtube videos of songs of this album, I leave a couple of live videos of tracks from previous work:
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