JP Soars - Brick By Brick (2024)

Artist: JP Soars
Title Of Album: Brick By Brick
Year Of Release: 2024
Label (Catalog#):Little Village Foundation
Country: USA
Genre: Blues Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 45:47
Full Size: 321Mb(+3%)

JP Soars is a known quantity in blues circles; in 2009 he won the International Blues Challenge and the Albert King guitar award, and he’s been nominated for and/or won half a dozen prestigious accolades in the genre. His new album Brick by Brick with the Little Village foundation is fun, easy listening. The collaborations couldn’t be stronger, with Anne Harris on fiddle and Annika Chambers and Paul DesLauriers on backup vocals. Switching between varied styles is a signature of Soars, who goes from bluegrass to blues to heavy metal to jazz in the space of a single 11 track album. Those switches carry a risk of feeling disjointed or clunky, but there’s a soulful throughline that keeps everything mostly cohesive. Soars says the album grew out of experimentation with styles and songs during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the result is a cheerful and hopeful record that sounds great and feels joyous.

Tracks:
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1. Brick By Brick
2. Jezebel
3. Keep Good Company
4. Can’t Keep Her Off My Mind
5. In The Moment
6. That’s What Love Will Make You Do
7. The Good Lord Will Provide
8. Honey and Hash
9. Merlin Stomp
10. Things Ain’t Working Out
11. Down By The Water

Personnel:
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JP Soars (vocal/guitar)
Chris Peet (drums/bass)
Raul D. Hernandez (percussion)
Bob Taylor (Hammond B3)
Paul DesLauriers & Annika Chambers (bgv)
Rockin’ Jake Jacobs (harmonica)
Terry Hanck (tenor sax)

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