The new CD
by
Andy Broad, Matt Beckwith and Adam Franklin
Price Only £10.00 (GBP)

 


Sample Track

Track Listing

  1. Saucer And Cup - Eric Bibb
  2. Rocks And Gravel - Mance Lipscombe (from and arrangement by Steve James)
  3. I Can't Help Myself - Words Matt Beckwith / Music Matt Beckwith and Andy Broad / Arranged Rocks and Gravel
  4. Minglewood Blues - Noah Lewis (with thanks to OCMS)
  5. Early In the Morning - Junior Wells
  6. MyBabe - Little Walter Jacobs
  7. Brownsville - Sleepy John Estes
  8. Step It Up And Go - Blind Boy Fuller (additional lyrics Adam Franklin)
  9. Filthy Rich - Kenny Sultan And Tom Ball
  10. Shake Em On Down - Booker (Bukka) White

Press Clippings

Review Of R.A.G. in B.I.T.S January 2008
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ANDY BROAD, MATT BECKWITH & ADAM FRANKLIN Rocks And Gravel (ABBCD010) Well folks, heres a goody to spend your Christmas-pressy money on. Ten tracks and not a duff one among them. Andy Broad (guitar and vocal), Matt Beckwith (harp and vocal) and Adam Franklin (Dobro and vocal). Nine of the ten tracks are covers of blues standards and contemporary stuff ranging from Mance Lipscombes Rocks And Gravel, Little Walters My Babe to more modern old stuff like Junior Wells Early In The Morning and Kenny Sultan and Tom Balls endorsement of high living Filthy Rich

The exception to the blues covers is a nice track written by Matt Beckwith with a cool dobro riff in the driving background; called I Cant Help Myself it is a really nice effort. More self penned stuff, please! Two of the tracks are Brownsville by Sleepy John Estes and Minglewood Blues by Noah Lewis. Of course, Estes and Lewis were contemporaries and produced a special Tennessee blues sound. Over all the touch in the majority of these tracks reminds me very much of those wonderful sounds. Nice..... My only criticism is that it would be helpful if the notes showed/told us who was/is singing the lead on each track, but thats a very trivial matter.

Ian McKenzie