AUSSIE BLUES #3

Steve Tallis - ZOZO (1999) 

I first met Steve Tallis back in the late 1960s when he was the singer for Perth's very popular "Jelly Roll Bakers". For a few years over the late 60s/early 70s we hung out together and briefly played in the same blues band in Perth in 1970. I ran into Steve again in 1972 when we were both living in Melbourne, and we caught up frequently over the next few years at various gigs Steve was doing. By the late 1970s however I had relocated to Thailand and had abandoned my desires to be a professional musician, instead focusing on a new career in photojournalism. Nonetheless, I do occasionally make visits back to Perth and if Steve is performing anywhere nearby I try to catch up with my old friend.

Tracklist:

 01 – Crow Magick 

 02 – All God's Children 

 03 – Bury My Body 

 04 – Silence Is The Most Powerful Cry

 05 – Cut Your Mouth Out Mama 

 06 – Paradise 

 07 – Midnight The Cloud Of Darkness

 08 – Boko (Sorcerer)

 09 – Abobo (There Is No Evil)

 10 – Love Is The Road That Will Walks

 11 – Mama Lola 

 12 – Big Boat Up The River

 13 – Jealousy (The Ripoff Man)

 14 – When My Blood Will Come

 15 – I Am Your Dream

 16 – He Is Coming

 17 – The Spirits Are Back 

Vocals, Guitar – Steve Tallis

Mandolin, Violin, Harmonica – Dave Clarke

Percussion – Gary Ridge

Steve Tallis is an Australian musician who does not play conventional blues. He always goes further and integrates blues with a more ethnic-merged music that some experts would define as World Music. His personal way of conceiving and performing music has led him to be considered as a creator of an obsessive hypnotic repetitive and free style. Violin, tabors, triangles or kettledrums are what you are going to hear plus other unusual instruments, together with Steve's twelve string guitar he plays in most of the seventeen songs included on this CD.

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