Tom Hyslop about Latvian Blues Band

CD "Unreal" review

Talk about culture shock: When UNREAL starts to spin, the first thing out of the speakers is an uptown soul arrangement that sounds like Gene Barge's work on Little Milton's mid-Sixties Chicago sides. The song resolves into Willie Dixon's "Evil", of all things, with the smoky vocal. It's Janis Bukovskis who proceeds to really testify as the song shifts into gospel raveup mode before ending. The skittering guitar solo comes from producer Duke Robillard, who recognizes that the Latvian Blues Band has got it goin' on.

The band's selfreleased album demonstrates a feeling for electric and acoustic blues in a range of styles as well as funk and even reggae rhythms.

Tom Hyslop – “Blues Revue” Magazine #122 Feb/Mar 2010

(2010)

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