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Reviews Back to the Roots Magazine, Holland. Jan-Feb issue # 23, 1999 The Irish Blues Club is a musician's collective in Dublin which is working very enthusiastically on promoting Irish Blues bands. With this their second release "Forty Shades of Blue vol. 2" they should - it seems to me - finally manage to get Ireland on the map as a blues country. These guys worked hard enough for it. They did everything on their own, they financed the project through gigs and even the inlay of the cd with its stylized drawing of Dublin's number 1 bluesclub and home of the Club, J.J. Smyth's, is a small work of art of one the musicians. No less than 19 bands or soloists are introduced on this cd. With the exceptions of Parchman Farm (see their cd review in BTTR #19) and Dermott Byrne none of the bands were recorded before. The quality of the songs on the cd is invariably high. Of the 19 songs no less than 13 are originals. There isn't a song I would like to skip. Simply delicious stuff, this! None of your obligatory Texas imitations, no endless shuffles, but a surprising stylistic melting pot with songs ranging in style from the raw Chicago blues of Dermott Byrne by way of Seanie Foy's rockabilly to the hammond jazz of the Tom Harte Quintet. Apart from Parchman Farm my favourites are the beautiful Cooderian slide-instrumental "Red Sky" by Randall Rainwater and the virtuoso harpnumber "Gin and Diatonic" by Gallagher and Kinsella, but I don't doubt that any blues addict will find lots of tunes to his or her taste. In Dublin the CD is available through the record stores. From the Low Countries you can order it from Blue Mood, 51 Leinster Rd, Rathmines, Dublin 6, ph: +353 1 496 5572 or on the Internet http://www. Irishblues.com. Just do it. Rinus van der Schans
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