Velma Powell & Bluedays - Blues To The Bone (2018)

"Blues to the bone" is born from the need that the North American artist feels to reaffirm herself in her roots and her musical heritage; Chicago's Electric Blues floods this work from the first to the last song. It is the city of Velma Powell, it is her music and the language she knows best how to handle.
In this production there is stylistic coherence and rhythmic and sonorous clarity: this is blues of Chicago ladies and gentlemen, of the authentic. Recall that Velma is born and raised in the city of the wind, without fissures, her songs breathe the influence of great with which she is even consanguineously related: Brownie McGee, John Lee Hooker ... .but also appear among their notes the legacies of Muddy Waters , Little Walter (who plays his "Too late"), Howlin 'Wolf or Otis Rush.
Velma Powell and the Bluedays
The band Bluedays has had the luxury of counting for the recording with the inestimable collaboration of two musicians of international repercussion: Paul San Martín (San Sebastián) to the pianos and Hammonds, and David García (Gijón-Madrid) to the harmonica; undoubtedly among the best and most reputable in their instruments throughout Europe.
12 songs make up the album: eleven originals, where Velma gives us lyrics full of sensitivity and double senses characteristic of the blues, and a single version that finishes rounding the solidity of the final set.
Strength, charisma in abundance, an unparalleled personality, a musical heritage and an overwhelming mise-en-scène difficult to see in these lands: that's Velma Powell and her new album "Blues to the bone". (From spanish)