Wednesday, April 2, 2014

MIKEY JUNIOR: SINGER/SONGWRITER/HARMONICA

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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