Loading...
Hometown: Gloucester, GLS, UK
Label: Rawtone Records, Rawtone Records
Website: www.sonsofthedelta.co.uk
Sounds Like: Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John P. Hammond, Charlie Musselwhite, Elmore James
Genre: Blues
An earthy, passionate blend of traditional and original electric/acoustic juke joint & street corner delta blues flavoured with the many roots music styles from the southern states of the USA.
Featuring two of the top bluesmen in the SouthWest UK - Mark Cole (Maxwell Street Blues Band, the Dockery Boys) and Rick Edwards (the Blueshounds, Hocus Pocus Blues).
Between them they have nearly 50 years experience of playing the blues both in Europe and the USA and have played with or opened for many blues greats including Pinetop Perkins, Sam Carr, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Eddie C. Campbell, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, Kent DuChaine, Alvin Lee, Dr. Feelgood, Paul Lamb & Connie Lush.
"Fantastic"
Paul Jones - BBC Radio 2
“...very inventive, powerful guitar playing and their commitment and enthusiasm for what they performed was obvious.”
Bob Tilling - Blues in Britain magazine
“You guys have really got a good little unit there... I thought that was pretty darn good - you don't have to take a back seat to anybody”
legendary presenter, Sonny 'Sunshine' Payne - King Biscuit Time on Radio KFFA, Helena, Arkansas
“Righteous stuff”
Joel McIver - Classic Rock's The Blues magazine
“Made In Mississippi is a belter of an album. Mark Cole and Rick Edwards, do not just "play" the Blues, they "feel" it too. This gives them the edge over many of their contemporaries.....they could easily find themselves being lauded as Britain's Jelly Roll Kings.”
Gordon Baxter - Blues in Britain magazine
“played a sublime set...certainly revved the crowd up”
Russell Hill - Maverick Magazine
"Raw, righteous,..the real Delta deal."
Leslie Fleury (Award winning radio DJ) - Blues Odyssey on KSER
