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Tom Rodwell & Storehouse "Sheffield's answer to Lightnin' Hopkins," - NME. "You don't hear that anymore. Beautiful groove, beautiful tunes!" - Derek Trucks.  INFO AND UPDATES NEWS, MARCH 2012: Welcome to calypso-blues guitarist Tom Rodwell's website, featuring live dates added on the frequently updated Shows page. FREAK OUT: Debut studio album "LIVE HUMBLE" is here and available at the Shop and at your local retailer courtesy of Southbound distribution. Featuring improvisations based on slave-era spirituals, work-songs and low-tech blues music, this tasty little sucker has been a long time coming. LISTEN ONLINE HERE... The single - "Adam in the Garden" - is now available for purchase as a download there, and on iTunes. Listen to samples of "Live Humble" on the Music page, and read Gary Steel's review for Metro magazine, March 2012, and hear Nick Bollinger's review for Radio NZ, January 2012. The full text for both are online at the Press page. MEANWHILE: 2012 touring continues; be sure come check us out at the Erupt festival in Taupo in NZ, plus club & theatre dates all over the shop. On the horizon is a 2012 London residency at Jamboree in Limehouse, as well as numerous touring situations around the UK and beyond. Expect US activity in September. PLUS: * Check out Coco's site! http://cocodavis.bandcamp.com * Download / listen to some nylon string acoustic snippets and a 2011 interview with Tom Rodwell and Colleen Davis conducted by Chris Davis: Here * Listen to four songs and multiple daft stories recorded in 2010 for Radio New Zealand, available to stream (via Windows Media Player) online: Here * Below, Coco, Damian Immigration and TR way down by the riverside during the "Adam in the Garden" single release tour. Pic (c) 2012 by Colin Smith.  BIOGRAPHY 2012: Tom Rodwell’s critically acclaimed debut album LIVE HUMBLE follows years of extensive touring in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the US, Switzerland and Holland. Rodwell and his band STOREHOUSE are now an established independent club and festival act, and have supported Leon Russell, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, Otis Taylor, Son of Dave and psychedelic reggae pioneers Trinity Roots. Rodwell’s music is based in hard blues minimalism, but filtered through an improvisatory, no-fixed-arrangements approach. As influences from free improvisation, the Georgia Sea Island singers, calypso and Juju music have filtered into his style, this flexible approach has made his guitar playing harder to categorise, yet more suggestive and resonant for younger, bohemian audiences. Similarly, Rodwell’s vocals and song choice - usually half-remembered fragments of slave-era spirituals or bizarre calypso tales - have deliberately mixed messages, with the sacred and profane competing for space on the dancefloor. “The feeling is the only content of this music,” he is fond of saying, focussing attention on subtext, accentuation, and social function. Rodwell’s reinvention of blues as a dance form, (the raucous Storehouse live show has appeared in hundreds of clubs, festivals, galleries, rent parties and dive bars internationally since 2003), upsets purists, but also those who see this apparently ‘easy’ music as one-dimensional and static. It is instead, he insists, music that is still mutating into new shapes, away from the modern gaze, somewhere where rock n’ roll never happened. ==================================== Rodwell's festival appearances include: Concrete and Glass (London 08), Lovebox Weekender (London 07), Quellrock (Switzerland, 09), Ealing Blues Festival (London, 11), Colne Great British R&B Festival (05), Spitz One Man Band Fest (London 06), Music of 1,000 Lovers Festival, (Auckland 2010), Wellington International Jazz Festival (99, 07), Tauranga International Jazz & Blues Festival (04, 11), Bay of Islands Jazz Festival, (04), Spitz Festival of the Blues @ Kings Place (London 09), Tramlines (Sheffield 09), Philadelphia Blues Festival (Sheffield 06, 07), Borderline (Auckland 08, 10) and a bunch more... ======================== "You don't hear that anymore. Beautiful groove, beautiful tunes!" - Derek Trucks. "Thanks for making my job a lot harder man. I was gonna go out there and play a bunch of bullshit, now I gotta go out there and do something," - Otis Taylor. "Seriously juicy groove," -Giles Hedley. "Much funkier than the alternative," - Little George Sueref. "Wonderful hypnotic boogie," - Joe Cushley. http://storehouse.bandcamp.com http://www.myspace.com/storehousemusic http://www.youtube.com/user/storehousemusic ================================  STOREHOUSE BAND LINKS: For more info on some of the illustrious members of this rocking teenage combo, why not peruse the following informative websites: ART TERRY Pianist, songwriter DAMIAN HORNER-PAUSMA Drummer, percussionist, educator COCO DAVIS Singer, actor, theatre-maker PHILL DRYSON Guitarist, composer GUESTSPEAKER Drummer, percussionist, educator JOE PINEAPPLE Bassist, sound artist DREADY CARL Guitarist, washboarder, songwriter  |
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