Two new songs from Mike Whellans! Parliamentarian Election Blues / Lonesome Road
Two new releases here from 'the one-man-blues-band'. You can watch the videos and find out more about them below (click 'read more'), and purchase the downloads direct from our mp3 shop or from any of the major digital download sites. Enjoy!
"Mike Whellans is the real thing, a keeper of the one-man blues band flame that burned so passionately in the work of this highly specialized forms masters, including Doctor Isaiah Ross, Jesse Fuller and Whellans great British forerunner, Tony Duster Bennett.
Like all true bluesmen and women, when Whellans sings and plays, he means it. He can set a scene of darkness and foreboding, play twelve-string guitar in the grand driving blues tradition, and sing of hugging his babys deserted pillow so that you really feel his loss."
Parliamentarian Election Blues
Here's a riposte from Scottish bluesman Mike Whellans to the seemingly never-ending UK MPs expenses scandal. Like many of us, Mike had witnessed the unfolding of this saga of greed, pomposity and self righteousness with increasing weariness, so when the UK election date was called & those same politicians began to buff up their election smiles to a high sheen, he felt compelled to put pen to paper & set a few things straight...
Whellans' is normally a one-man-blues-band, but he's joined here on lead guitar by Mike 'Billy Gibbons' Katz, a talented multi-instrumentalist whose primary occupation is as the bagpiper with Scottish folk legends Battlefield Band. Katz brought his own hi-tech 'cans' along for the session & tried to claim them on expenses but we refused.
Lonesome Road is a Whellans original and a version of this track first appeared on his Fired Up & Ready album in 2008. Here's a stripped down alternative take on the song
Both songs will be released by Temple Records as digital download only singles on 19th April 2010 and will be available from the Temple Records online mp3 shop and from all major digital download outlets, including itunes, emusic & Amazon. Posted Thursday 22nd of April 2010 at 01:37:00 PM
