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shake your hips
12+ albums
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about
This band may come from France, but the blood running through their veins is as blue as can be and with their second album, “Blues Twins”, these five guys will convert even the most blasé to Blues music. “Blues Twins” is in fact a double album, one ‘live’ and one recorded in studio: very daring for a first album but it turns out to be a real class act. We start off with the ‘live’ album and ‘Slow Down’ goes off with a bang and is followed by a very punchy ‘Can't Keep A Good Man Down’. Shake your Hips really mean business when they play ‘live’ and let out the stage animals they are as in this ‘live’ recording of the concert they did one Summer night of 2008 in Nantes. It’s molten lava destroying everything in its way including those CDs you were listening to and thought were pretty good. The cocktail of covers on this CD may have been a weakness but, in fact, the band’s interpretation is incredibly efficient and, from the first track, you can’t help feeling they’re a band to be reckoned with. After the ‘live’ album, you’re left wondering whether it was a mistake starting with the ‘live’ CD. But there’s nothing else to do but slip the studio album in and from the first track, ‘Swingharp’, an instrumental piece, you’re nailed to your chair. It’s shaking, swinging, smouldering and undoubtedly up there with the ‘live’ recording. And yes, it’s a relief as it could have been a disappointment after such an extraordinary first album. The journey goes on with the bluest Blues you’v
