Call My Name - Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts

Just got a copy of Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts new cd, Call My Name, and it really fine! The recording is made up of 11 band penned tracks and starts off with Anti-Blues Pill,a spartan blues rocker with just the right mix of vocals, guitar, harp and rhythm. Love At First Sight is a driving blues rocker track with a really cool guitar ripper in the middle. One More Night is a R&B track with a strong vocal lead. The harp solo on this track shows not only good feeling but also great tone. When It Rains has that Texas Blues lope with harp and slide base. This is a pretty strong track. Call My Name has a bit of the R&B sound with a southern twist. These guys have obviously done their homework. I Choose The Blues is a great song set around the Link Wray style sound...reverb and all. It sets a cool ambiance and then uses the contrast of the vocal with the guitar trem and the harp to blow it out.... excellent! Real Prince Charming gets into the Chicago groove and the harp of course leads the way. This song moves along really well and I think that it will be really well recieved by most blues fans. Kaboom! is the recordings "wild card" with a harp driven song over a traditional style European beat. It gives Hartt a great opportunity to blow a cool solo. Sleepwalkin' is back in the Chicago 8 bar style but with a great swing. The shimmering guitar chords underlying the vocal track are very effective. Hartt again blows some cool harmonic riffs on the harp. New Love, Old Love Part II is a blues/jazz rocker with a nice guitar interlude that sets it off very nicely. I mean it isn't really insignificant...it's actually nice work. Hartt again plays some really cool harp riffs to compliment the track. Dartboard has it's roots in country but is pushed up as a Blues rocker. I really like it.

The band is made up of Ryan Hartt on harmonica and vocals, Eric Ducoff on guitar and vocals, Nick Toscano on drums and percussion and Jeff berg on bass and vocals and slide guitar on When It Rains.

This is a very strong cd and if you have a hint that you may like what I described...you will!!

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Drop Anchor - Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts

“YOU GOT TO LIVE IT TO GIVE IT”, states the first line from Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts’ latest CD, “Call My Name”. In their 12 years together, Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts have, indeed, lived it. They’ve logged countless gigs and countless miles in a Honda minivan, playing clubs and festivals throughout the Northeast and beyond. Being in a blues band in today’s music market is never easy. Nonetheless, the band keeps moving forward, outlasting musical trends and clubs that have come and gone.

Though the band will always be rooted in the Chicago and West Coast blues they have built their reputation on, “Call My Name” expands their sound with soul, proto-rock & roll and even ska. Their songwriting has matured equally. Certainly the common blues themes of love lost and found are here, but the songs on “Call My Name” also reflect the changes and growth of the band members over the last seven years with topics ranging from depression to choosing music over a relationship to the grind of a gigging blues band. Yet no matter what, as the last line of the of the last song says, Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts “will be back next Friday night”.

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