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Showing posts with label California Avacado Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California Avacado Festival. Show all posts
CROOKED EYE TOMMY PERFORMS@CALIFORNIA AVOCADO FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 3 - 1 P.M./Main Stage/Downtown
Carpinteria
(Carpinteria, CA) - Crooked Eye Tommy is lighting up the Blues scene
and quickly raising their profile in the international music
community with their critically-lauded new album, Butterflies
& Snakes. The Ventura County, California quartet fronted by
brothers Tommy and Paddy Marsh have also become a favorite on the
Festival circuit, with performances this year at the Ojai Blues
Festival, Ventura County Blues festival, New Blues Festival, and now
- an appearance at the 29th Annual California
Avocado Festival, in downtown Carpinteria, on Saturday,
October 3. Main Stage, 1 p.m. Info: (805) 684-0038 or http://avofest.com/.
The eleven originals on Butterflies &
Snakes run a rich gamut of sound, with no two songs
sounding the same. From the deep-fried Southern blues of
autobiographical title track "Crooked Eye Tommy" and
down-home traditional-sounding "I Stole The Blues" (written
and sung by Paddy Marsh) to the sexy blues shuffle "Somebody's
Got To Pay" and album-ending, country-tinged "Southern
Heart", there truly is something for virtually every music
aficionado to like on the record. Butterflies & Snakes has
received worldwide airplay and has been featured twice on the
nationally-syndicated Blues Deluxe radio show, in addition to
cracking the Roots Music Report's Top 50 California Album Chart.
Crooked Eye Tommy recently took home "Best Blues Act" at
the 2015 Ventura County (Calif.) Music Awards.
CROOKED EYE TOMMY - "BUTTERFLIES &
SNAKES" - MEDIA QUOTES
"The title track kicks off with a swampy slide,
crawling king snake Mississippi Delta groove. You settle right in
ready for some stories told only the way bluesmen do. I'd like to say
Tommy (Marsh) reminds me of Robert Cray meets Molly Hatchet. Tommy's
brother, Paddy Marsh, wrote three songs on the album including
"I Stole The Blues", a good traditional-sounding song that
treats the sometimes campy subject of musical thievery very
matter-of-factly, with reverence and with soul".
"Recorded live in Ojai's Brotheryn Studios,
Crooked Eye Tommy's first full-length offers an unsweetened,
100-proof taste of its Southern-soaked blues-rock and a
reintroduction to some of the area's finest musicians. CET's range is
evident all over this record as it goes from the bedroom to to the
dance floor with "Mad and Disgusted", a full-tilt
boogie-woogie number from the gut".
"Eleven excellent songs, ranging from down-home
blues, to rockers and ballads..favorite songs are blues shuffles,
"I Stole The Blues" and "Somebody's Got To Pay",
and the dance-able "Love Divine", with the beautiful twin
guitar work of the Marsh Brothers, (Tommy and Paddy). Who dares to
bring them to The Netherlands?"
"Crooked Eye Tommy does a great job of explaing
the blues the way its supposed to sound. Brothers Tommy and Paddy
Marsh tell their stories clearly and back them up with plenty of
sizzle. Rhythmically, the band keeps everything moving at a steady
pace that's as comfortable as hearbeats in bed".
"A rocking blues powerhouse...Southern-style blues
with chops and taste... I like a blues band that wants to sound like
a blues band, not a group of guys just waiting to get the next
screamin' solo. These guys get it done--it sounds like they all
turned down the volume just a little and they all play together
beautifully."
"Opening with a cool blend of John Bonham- style
rhythm and early Lynyrd Skynyrd swagger, the title track tells a
crazy myth of Crooked Eye Tommy. Jimmy Reed-style track, I Stole The
Blues, stays tight in the groove with rich vocals from Paddy Marsh
(who wrote the track) and hot sax work from Jimmy Calire. The release
is wrapped up with a pop country track, Southern Heart, which could
easily make a run on the country radio market."
