Debut album from a raucous electric blues trio from WV. Big chunk ân funky guitar slips ân slides in smears of sound around gritty-gruff vocals, all glued tightly together by a rock solid rhythm section.

16 MP3 Songs in this album (63:05) !
Related styles: Blues: Blues-Rock, Rock: Jam-band, Featuring Guitar

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Details:
KWT blues band is an exciting blues experience from West Virginia. Energized and edgy, this trio brings traditional blues into the 21st Century. Like a flat stone hitting the water just right; KWT skips from 30âs blues roots to the 60s blues explosion, jumps to the 80s blues revival, and then leaps to the here and now.

With their album Fetish Juju, KWT brings their raw improvisational live-band sound to âtapeâ for the first time. The result is an edgy neo-blues, one that pays homage to familiar old-school blues structures while providing lots of sonic surprises. The album includes ample jamming blues, but most of the songs are short in length with compact arrangements. KWT provides exciting, powerful live performances, carefully crafting each tune to have a unique color and flavor.

Clever lyrical content is delivered via gritty, soulful growl, with fresh phrasing that melds nicely with the in-your-face guitar-driven music. The electric guitar playing is powerful, tantric and totally fluid; notes bend and slide, weaving in and out of the vocal melodies, toying with the beat of the drums â sometimes tight, other times loose. The guitar will allow the bass to be a tidy foundation, and then it will flirt atonally from some skewed perspective, giving the tension-and-release dynamic of the blues new dimensions.

Fetish Juju - Song Rundown:
#1: The album starts off with a slippery tune about a conflicted relationship, âBiscuit Galâ. Full of wild slide guitar that pops, crackles and snaps â breaking free of familiar blues slide playing, while witty lyrical hooks drip with double entendre as per standard blues innuendo.

#2: Next is the surprisingly catchy âDevils Fleasâ, a song ultimately about poor behavior and the unintended consequences. With its agitated riffing, itchy twitchy melodies, and agile lyrics this song may make you giggle and scratch your head.

#3: The raucous âWhereâs My Dogâ is an uninhibited stumble thru one manâs morning hang-over and the resulting half-a-bubble-off state of being. It features some wild guitar soloing that slips and rips toward the clarity required to get to work on time.

#4: This is the albumâs most pop-sounding tune; âO Lordyâ. This addictive number is chock full of memorable musical hooks and nimble, witty word-smithing, and it features the albums only kazoo/motocross solo.

#5: âSalty Dogâ is an imaginary homeless vagrant with a decidedly philosophical bent, and this song provides an airy, funky platform for his tongue-in-cheek rules of life.

#6: âThe Mountainâ laments about deal-making with the big man in the sky. This very accessible piece is one of the more traditional blues takes on the album, played with a finger-picking style.

#7: âLook Easyâ is another slide guitar jam with humorous lyrics about one manâs struggle to maintain a Zen-like posture while simultaneously enjoying the good life and contemplating an uncertain tomorrow.

#8: âIntermissionâ is an instrumental palate cleanser. Set on the back porch during a soft summer rain, this piece features the only instrumental overdubs of the whole album with finger-picking and slide acoustic guitars, some jaws harp, keyboard and more.

#9: âSheâs Alrightâ is a rocker about an irresistibly voluptuous young woman who sells hotdogs to help pay her way to nowhere. Loaded with bump and grind riffing and soloing this song is a fun listen.

#10: âGrindâ is a gritty, intense instrumental that bounces rhythmically between what is expected and the unbalanced atonal folds of musical uncertainty. This rocking romp will leave you breathing heavy.

#11: âAll By Myselfâ is another rocker. This woeful exploration of the angst stemming from an unhappy life situation, the hope of something better, and the absurdity of fleeing that which haunts us. This song is a blend of open air, power chords and deft guitar solos.

#12: The preceding song leads nicely into this blues jam âDieâ â which may seem gloomy on the surface - but is really a healthy resolution that life is beautiful, and that death is just a part of this absurd thing called life.

#13: âMajor Thangâ is an instrumental slice of happy pleasantness. The chord progression is more complex than the standard three chord blues â bringing a variety of colors to bear on the ear.

#14: âGâhead Nowâ is a blues guitar tour de force, rich in textures and wide in influence. The lyrics are loaded with traditional old-school blues phrases, familiar double entendres, all seasoned with a dash of deliberate ambiguity.

#15: âStuck in a Rutâ is a standard, straight-down-the-middle-of-the-road 12 bar blues song. It deals with ones struggle to keep up with a never changing condition.

#16: The album bids farewell with the bar-jam instrumental song âLive Near Hereâ. Barely a song, this free form jam is a sarcastic reflection of the drunken, out-of-sorts, semi-disinterested attention that a tired band often gets after last call.

Three guys, a guitar, a bass, and a set of drums; KWT blues band comes from the mountains of West Virginia, just a ways south of the Mason Dixon line and on the Mississippi side of the Continental Divide. The vocalist / guitarist / band leader is Kenton Blackwood and the bad-ass rock-solid rhythm-section is comprised of bass player Willy Myers and drummer Tim Kuhn. The words and music for Fetish Juju was written by Blackwood, and all the arrangements are by KWT.

Thanks: The album is dedicated to Sue Rosenberg; a close friend of the band and a sophisticated music aficionado, that passed away just weeks before the CD was completed.

Inside:
KWT might stand for âKnuckle Wood Theoryâ⦠Maybe âKinky Whisker Twistersâ⦠Perhaps âKilt Wearing Thugsâ or âKhaki Waddle Thangâ. Possibly âKrusty Wind Toxinsâ. But it most certainly does not stand for Kaptain Wyclef Thorndike. Don't let him tell you otherwise!

Some Things Written about Fetish Juju:
âOddly enticing on the first listen, I was hooked by the third time through. Hooked by the shear electric intensity of this raucous musicâ¦â

âTheir on-the-edge style goes from simple funny/happy to dizzying chaotic complexity.â

âSome contemporary blues music â even by well-known, seasoned players - can seem at times to be overly familiar, trying too hard to adhere to the âbluesâ rulebook. Fetish Juju is a new take on that old rulebook⦠fresh and excitingâ¦â

â⦠an uninhibited breakthrough into the next phase in the evolution of the blues. It rips, shreds and claws itâs way further into your synapses with each listen.â

âNo glossy veneer here⦠just raw, passionate originals with both a rocking edge and a subtle self-deprecating humor⦠These guys approach music seriously without taking themselves too seriously⦠They love the blues and deliver their own without pretense.â