Here's a video clip of The Double Barrel Blues Band of Syracuse's opening set for blues guitar star Chris Duarte this past weekend.
Blues guitarist Mark Cloutier is pretty psyched about the Double Barrel Blues Band's opening set for headliner Chris Duarte this past weekend at the Pendragon Theater in Saranac Lake.
"Chris Duarte and the band loved our blues," Cloutier reports. "He let me check out his rig and gave me his performance guitar pick, which was cool."
Good news, indeed.
Here's my Post-Standard review of the Double Barrel Blues Band's 2009 CD "Bad Bad Feeling."
Listen to "Bad Bad Feeling" and you'll get the urge to sit in a bar and sweat with the Double Barrel Blues Band.
The Syracuse foursome lays down the sound with an obvious love for and equally apparent talent for blues the way it oughta be.
Guitarist Mark Cloutier can play it fast and hot or slow and tense.
Singer John Hart can add the grit or spread the honey.
Bassist Bill Satterly and drummer Garnett Grimm Sr. keep it real.
Satterly wrote the title cut, and Cloutier's guitar work will send shivers down your spine as Hart sings, "Sometimes it feels like a black cat crossed my path. Sometimes it feels like I got a target on my back."
Yet they know that the blues can celebrate good times, too. In Cloutier's original "Flipping and Flapping, " they see what can come from romancing their high-heeled baby. "I'm gonna buy you a shoe store, so you don't have to wear old shoes no more, " Hart sings.
The well-picked covers start with a tasty "Wine Wine Wine" and finish with an anguished "Tin Pan Alley." "All the people down there, well they're living for the whiskey, wine and gin, " Hart sings. Hoist one for the blues.
