The CD "Yeller Moon" is finished and will be released on Oct 22nd 2024 on the start of our autumn tour 2024!
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It's been a lengthy journey, almost ten years in fact, from the inception of this album until its completion. Various things, such as Covid, led to protracted pauses, during which the project almost went to sleep, but it was always in the back of our minds. Luckily, after 40 years of working together, once back in the studio ideas began to flow, Ferdl knows how I work and I know how he works, and he is a great musician and a source of inspiration. We didn't need much discussion to create this rainbow-like cascade of poetry and music which we hope you will enjoy as much as we did in recording it, and possibly give pause for thought with many of the lyrics.
There's something for everyone. Love to you all. John Kirkbride & Ferdl Eichner
Audio samples here...
1. The Tough Get Going
2. Yeller Moon
3. Downtown Street
4. Absence
5. Cold Steel Blues
6. To Love, to be Loved and to Live
7. It´s Just a Labour of Love
8. Rocky Road
9. Second Sight
10. Sonny Boy´s Blues
11. Someone Else´s Blues
12. Wish I Was Back in New Orleans
13. The Best That I Can
14. The Pack
15. Colour Blind
16. The Soul
Click here for the Lyrics
1. The Tough Get Going
2. Yeller Moon
3. Downtown Street
4. Absence
5. Cold Steel Blues
6. To Love, to be Loved and to Live
7. It´s Just a Labour of Love
8. Rocky Road
9. Second Sight
10. Sonny Boy´s Blues
11. Someone Else´s Blues
12. Wish I Was Back in New Orleans
13. The Best That I Can
14. The Pack
15. Colour Blind
16. The Soul
Click here for the Lyrics
John Kirkbride and Ferdl Eichner - this duo stands for a unique intense musical partnership collecting its magic from two seemingly different characters:
on one side John, the matured globetrotter that performed on a wide variety of venues with major musical figures such as B.B. King, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Procol Harum, Chuck Leavell, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Pete Seeger, Joan Armatrading and many more. He is probably the only solo musician who can claim to have performed AFTER Motörhead, keeping a couple of thousand bikers entertained until the early hours.
On the other side Ferdl, who made himself a name as a bluesharp virtuoso and shared the stage with Louisiana Red, Abi Wallenstein, Frank Diez and Colin Hodgkinson, Hans Theessink, Dr. Will, Zither Manä and many others. He is also a session player in demand and was invited to many recording sessions. Instinctively he knows how to accompany John and always gives new ideas to their songs.
No matter if Ferdl joins John on the harmonica or both the play guitar or you hear a stompbox beating the rhythm, they create an exciting performance that fascinates the audience not only with the music but also with John´s humorous stories.
Their repertoire extends from multi-layered originals to unique interpretations of famous blues, folk- and rootsmusic that bear the unmistakable stamp of the two exceptional musicians in every aspect.
Not only their live-performances but also their recordings of CDs proof impressively their decades lasting connection: John´s superb fingerpicking and masterful slide-guitar playing and his unmistakable voice that some call "drenched in 100 liters of whiskey" and Ferdl´s virtuosity and feeling on the bluesharp.
on one side John, the matured globetrotter that performed on a wide variety of venues with major musical figures such as B.B. King, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, Procol Harum, Chuck Leavell, Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Pete Seeger, Joan Armatrading and many more. He is probably the only solo musician who can claim to have performed AFTER Motörhead, keeping a couple of thousand bikers entertained until the early hours.
On the other side Ferdl, who made himself a name as a bluesharp virtuoso and shared the stage with Louisiana Red, Abi Wallenstein, Frank Diez and Colin Hodgkinson, Hans Theessink, Dr. Will, Zither Manä and many others. He is also a session player in demand and was invited to many recording sessions. Instinctively he knows how to accompany John and always gives new ideas to their songs.
No matter if Ferdl joins John on the harmonica or both the play guitar or you hear a stompbox beating the rhythm, they create an exciting performance that fascinates the audience not only with the music but also with John´s humorous stories.
Their repertoire extends from multi-layered originals to unique interpretations of famous blues, folk- and rootsmusic that bear the unmistakable stamp of the two exceptional musicians in every aspect.
Not only their live-performances but also their recordings of CDs proof impressively their decades lasting connection: John´s superb fingerpicking and masterful slide-guitar playing and his unmistakable voice that some call "drenched in 100 liters of whiskey" and Ferdl´s virtuosity and feeling on the bluesharp.
News:
13.10.2024
The CD "Yeller Moon" is finished and will be released on Oct 22nd 2024 on the start of our autumn tour 2024!
03.04.2024 we did the last two takes for the new CD "Yeller Moon"
05.04.2024 tour dates coming in for our CD release tour, look here
13.10.2024
The CD "Yeller Moon" is finished and will be released on Oct 22nd 2024 on the start of our autumn tour 2024!
03.04.2024 we did the last two takes for the new CD "Yeller Moon"
05.04.2024 tour dates coming in for our CD release tour, look here
