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Little Bob Blues Bastards
12+ albums
blues rockunder 2000 listenersbluesfrenchbluesrock
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Little Bob - Vocals Gilles Mallet - Guitar Bertrand Couloume - Bass Mikey Blow - Harmonica Jeremiah Piazza - Drums special guest Nicolas Christmas - Keyboards After enacting his own role in the Aki Kaurismäki movie Le Havre, Little Bob is back with a blues project that takes him back to his beginnings. Little Bob gives free rein to his passion for the blues, because everyone knows that the real bluesmen do not play the blues, they have it. Imagine a 12 year old coming off the train at Le Havre directly from Alessandria, Italy, near Turin city and discovering the pavement slippery with rain. Just as he put his foot down, he felt the Blues, and after several decades of spreading the good word of rock, here he is, with his side-project: Little Bob Blues Bastards. The breath of the Delta, quirky and original, pushes Bob and his musicians in this direction. With his own compositions and some standards, the album is composed of Blues and Little Bob" covers by "Howling Wolf, Skip James, Tom Waits and JB Lenoir. “I’ve always loved blues as much as rock’n’roll. The first LP I bought (alongside a record by the Animals) was a Howlin’ Wolf album. His vocals literally blew me away and I was hooked on the blues for life. To this day, I feel thankful to all of these great pioneers for their inspiration and feeling.” Break Down the Walls is a collection of blues classics revisited by Little Bob, interspersed with personal songs written in a similar vein. The result sounds like
