The joints are jumpin’…Paul Filipowicz plays a mean Strat and sings with gusto with his team of Steve Lewis/b, Brian Howard/dr, Al Dorn/harp, and a slew of guests for a mix and match of studio and gig sessions. His slide guitar slithers as he growls through “Old Sime Superstition” and shows some tasty guitar likcs on “Angle (sp?) Face” and the dark blueser “When I Get To Town” he surf rides over Lewis’ heavy line of the title tune, and the team boogies on ”Humdinger”. Clyde Stubblefield lays down a nice R&B beat for a rich cover of “Use My Imagination” and the team shuffles like a riverboat gambler on “Poor Man’s Throne”. Gritty and pretty.
Lone Star Mojo is made up of Mark Snyder/g/voc, Joe Splawn/B3-voc, Barry Sloan/dr-voc, Scotty Biggs/g-voc and Tim Maloney/b-voc, and they snuck in a session during the draconian COVID lockdown of 2020 thatis filled with pent up blues. Splawn’s Hammond is a hummer, swinging hard on “Texas Drought” and “Fine and Nasty” with the team digging in deep for “Not In The Groove” and “Big As A Bus”. Snyder and Biggs wail on ”I Pity The Fool” and howl for “All I Have Left Is The Blues” with the team in a rowdy mood on “Heat Broke, No Good, Nasty Loving Woman”. Scrape the dirt off your boots before entering.
If Kansas is still a dry state, I wonder what they were serving at the bar at The Red Shed back in May 8, 2021 when the trio of Kurt Allen/g-voc, Gregory Schaberg/dr-voc and Bill Morlan/br-voc were headlining. The place was without a doubt rocking until the wee hours, as Allen boogies and snarls through “Graveyard Blues” and Schaberg punishes the high hat on “Voodoo Queen”. Morlan lays down a deep line for the soulful “Bad Love” and s wells a current for Allen’s searing strings on “How Long” before the team drag races through the V8 of “Better Think Twice”. Check your hub caps before you leave the parking lot.
Singing and also playing guitar, bass, some drums, piano, harmonica and other stringed things, Steve Hill looks and sounds like vintage era Bob Seger, with fervent old time blues rocking. He’s punctuate with the Devil Horns consisting of Jacques Kuba Seuin/tp, Mario Allard/bs and Eduard Touchet/tb along with some extra brass on the big sounding “All About The Love” and dark “Dear Illusion” Drummer Wayne Proctor provides the heavy backbeat for “Everything You Got” and Until Next Time”, and Hill blows a nasty harmonica on the 70s ish “Keep It Together. Fist pumping power chords.