Fiona Boyes - Professin' The Blues

2017 Blues Blast Music Awards Acoustic Blues Album of the Year!

Nominated as Blues Album of the Year and Best Acoustic Artist!

Plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings

Fantastic new feature and interview with Fiona Boyes about her Professin' The Blues recording in The Guardian!

Half-speed mastered"...our heroine perpetuates the blues legacy with a brave attitude and amazing conviction."
- Vicente Zumel, La Hora Del Blues

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Fiona Boyes is an earthy force of nature. Her gravelly vocal timbre is straight out of the red dirt of the Outback. No swishy blues affectation, here. Professin' the Blues proclaims Fiona Boyes' passion for the blues as she celebrates the unique contribution of recording and mastering engineer 'Professor' Keith O. Johnson, Reference Recording's Technical Director and audio legend.

In her self-penned and illustrated liner notes Fiona makes the declaration, "'Professor' Keith's amazing approach to capturing sounds, mostly with his own hand-built equipment, is nothing short of sonic alchemy."

The majority of the songs here are written by Boyes. She's influenced by Delta Blues with a little Caribbean thrown in. For the most part, the songs are paired down to the nub. Voice with guitar, with sundry percussion — once in a while, drums and bass make an appearance. Of course, this instrumentation appears on many blues albums, but Boyes has a way of drawing in the listener into her stories. It's very intimate, very personal. Like Bille Holiday and Bessie Smith, Boyes takes you on her journey.

From the wonderful liner notes, Boyes seems to have a made a BFF in Johnson, the engineering alchemist of Reference Recordings. He's the reason why each Reference release with his imprimatur is awaited eagerly. His magic appears on this album from the very beginning.

The Blues Blast Music Awards are presented by Blues Blast Magazine, the largest FREE weekly internet blues magazine with more than 37,000 blues fan subscribers located in all 50 states and in more than 90 countries. The winner of the Acoustic Blues Album of the Year, Professin' the Blues was nominated by Blues music industry professionals. Blues Blast Magazine subscribers began voting to determine the winners on July 1 with only one vote per person allowed. Congratulations to all the winners and all the nominees!

 

Side 1

Can’t Stay Here No More

Devil You Know

Lay Down With Dogs

Angels And Boats

Side 2

One Rule For You

Card Sharp

Old And Stiff

Kiss Me Darling

Side 3

Love Me All The Way

Stubborn Old Mule

Catfish Fiesta

If I Should Die

Side 4

At The Crossroads

Love Changing Blues

Baby Please Don’t Go

Face In The Mirror

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