Blues Karloff - Light And Shade - LP
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Rooted in the guitar driven British Blues-Rock boom of the late 60's and 70s, steeped in the tradition of The Jeff Beck Group and early Led Zeppelin, Blues Karloff explore the outer reaches of the sounds that shaped this musical era. On their critically acclaimed debut album 'Ready For Judgement Day,' which was released in October 2014, the band saluted some of the Blues legends that every member of Blues Karloff had been listening to since childhood. The album featured songs by Robert Johnson, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Howlin' Wolf, and Muddy Waters; vintage Blues gems revisited, like the British Blues-Rock greats such as The Yardbirds, The Pretty Things, Savoy Brown, John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac did back in the sixties and seventies.
Blues Karloff features Paul 'Shorty' Van Camp on lead guitar. Originally a Blues-Rock player in the 70s, Shorty achieved worldwide recognition during the 80s as front-man-guitarist-singer and writer for Killer, one of the premier continental Heavy Metal bands to emerge from the early eighties 'New Wave Of Heavy Metal (NWOBHM)' scene. Now, in the footsteps of another of his heroes, the late great Gary Moore, Shorty is going Back To The Blues.
On their second album, Light And Shade, the band again revisited both classic and lesser-known tracks by the likes of Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Bobby Womack, and Tom Hambridge (who has been referred to as 'The White Willie Dixon' by none other than Buddy Guy). They also recorded their version of 'Looking Tired', a great Jagger–Richards Blues number which the Rolling Stones originally recorded in 1965 during the sessions for the 'Out of Our Heads' album at RCA Studios in Hollywood, but which until today remains officially unreleased. Sensing the need to gradually carve out their own identity as well as demonstrating their developing skills as tunesmiths, various members of the band wrote the remainder of the tracks on 'Light And Shade'.
Blues Karloff features Paul 'Shorty' Van Camp on lead guitar. Originally a Blues-Rock player in the 70s, Shorty achieved worldwide recognition during the 80s as front-man-guitarist-singer and writer for Killer, one of the premier continental Heavy Metal bands to emerge from the early eighties 'New Wave Of Heavy Metal (NWOBHM)' scene. Now, in the footsteps of another of his heroes, the late great Gary Moore, Shorty is going Back To The Blues.
On their second album, Light And Shade, the band again revisited both classic and lesser-known tracks by the likes of Willie Dixon, Jimmy Reed, Bobby Womack, and Tom Hambridge (who has been referred to as 'The White Willie Dixon' by none other than Buddy Guy). They also recorded their version of 'Looking Tired', a great Jagger–Richards Blues number which the Rolling Stones originally recorded in 1965 during the sessions for the 'Out of Our Heads' album at RCA Studios in Hollywood, but which until today remains officially unreleased. Sensing the need to gradually carve out their own identity as well as demonstrating their developing skills as tunesmiths, various members of the band wrote the remainder of the tracks on 'Light And Shade'.