Mikey Junior released his latest album ‘TRAVELING
SOUTH’ out 3/25/2014. Junior has
been traveling the East Coast blues circuit for a decade or so, and finally he
has released an album that has my attention. The original tunes are well
written and his harmonica is all fired-up and making my harp pump wildly as his
lips blow riffs and hooks that make my hips sway.
Even though
this is his 6 or7th album, he is virtually unknown, except on the East
Coast, his homeland. This album is worth the time it takes to listen to
the blues, with blues harp, and bluesy vocals, while it may be a little more
subdued than the live show, it is still very good.
Check out
this bluesy guy with the big Harp.
“…If he keeps Blowing Harmonica like that,
people gonna find out who Mikey Junior is real soon.”
— Sonny
Rhodes, 2009
He attacks his diatonic with a demonic
vengeance and is smooth as southern comfort on ice when playing the chromatic,
Mikey Junior is a rapidly rising blue harp performer, and rightfully so…”
— Jeff
Silverman, 2011
“…The legacy of immortals like Little Walter,
Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Big Walter Horton lives on in the infectious
harmonica blues of Mikey Jr., a true apostle of joy.”
—
Thomas J. Cullen, contributing editor for Blues Revue and director/co-founder
of the acclaimed Bucks County Blues Society 2013
"...the kind of stuff that could single
handedly light the fuse on a whole nu blues revival."
— Chris
Spector, Midwest Record 2014
http://www.mikeyjunior.com/
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