{"id":6241,"date":"2016-10-17T04:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T04:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/10\/17\/texas-bluesman-reverend-km-williams-releases-a-new-album\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T04:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T04:51:52","slug":"texas-bluesman-reverend-km-williams-releases-a-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2016\/10\/17\/texas-bluesman-reverend-km-williams-releases-a-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Bluesman REVEREND KM WILLIAMS releases a new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Reverend KM Williams is a true blues genius and a fast rising star in old school Texas Boogie Blues, carrying on the traditions of the great Texas bluesmen such as Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Raised in Red River county of East TX, Williams played his very first guitar licks as a mere toddler sitting in the lap of the great Elmore James. From that auspicious beginning, Williams built his musical chops in church performances steeped in gospel and R&B. Though he plays several kinds of guitar, the most distinctive instrument in his arsenal is an electrified Diddley bow, a fretless one-string instrument that has its origins in African slaves who fashioned a string of bailing wire to a wood plank and a hallowed out gourd, which when played with a bottle produced the familiar sounds of a blues slide guitar. You can hear both the Diddley bow and Williams\u2019s distinctive baritone voice on his newest album, The Real Deal Blues, set to be released on October 14 by Cleopatra Blues.\u00a0Williams enthusiastically proclaims that this album is \u201ca totally unique blues recording that is both very modern and retro at the same time. This is the most amazing CD I have ever done!\u201d<\/div>\n
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<\/a>Williams is also the subject of \u201cThe Real Deal Blues,\u201d an extraordinary new short film. Shot by Jay Gillian in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, a historic blues district where Blind Lemon himself used to busk, this documentary tells Williams\u2019s story while simultaneously telling the story of Texas blues through narration as well as electrifying performances of Williams and his band members, including drummer Washboard Jackson and Blues Music Award-winning harmonicist Deacon Jeff Stone. True to the blues tradition, the stages are modest, sparse, with nary a dance choreographer, Marshal stack or pyrotechnic in sight, yet the performances are no less riveting. This is authentic blues music played with passion and purpose. As Williams himself puts it, \u201cIf you want to make money, you need to become a pop musician, not a blues musician. This music is about life and it\u2019s about feeling and about expressing those feelings and having people digging what your doing.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Watch the \u201cThe Real Deal Blues\u201d documentary here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch? v=3culi8nU3ng<\/a><\/div>\n
Or on YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and CleopatraRecords.com<\/div>\n
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Track List:<\/div>\n
1. Baby, Please Come Home<\/div>\n
2. The Runaway Blues<\/div>\n
3. Ring In My Pocket<\/div>\n
4. Highway 666<\/div>\n
5. You Got Me Shakin’<\/div>\n
6. Bad Boy Blues<\/div>\n
7. Shoulda Left This Town Blues<\/div>\n
8. Haunted House<\/div>\n
9. On My Way To Muskogee<\/div>\n
10. That’s Why My Baby’s Feelin’ Blue<\/div>\n
11. The Witch Queen Of New Orleans<\/div>\n
12. Working Man Blues<\/div>\n
13. I Need A Woman To Cure My Blues<\/div>\n
14. The Funeral Blues<\/div>\n
BONUS TRACK<\/div>\n
15. Bad Boy Blues (Acoustic Version)<\/div>\n
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Buy the CD: http:\/\/flyt.it\/RevKMWilliamsCD<\/a><\/div>\n
Buy the digital version: http:\/\/flyt.it\/RevKMWilliamsDig<\/a><\/div>\n
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Source: Cleopatra Records<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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