Live blues night with four-piece band New Shoes Blues playing old blues, rhythm and blues and rock at The Anchor Inn.
New Shoes Blues play The Anchor Inn in Hastings on Sunday 15 November, starting at 8:30pm. They're a four-piece blues band of experienced musicians, and their sets lean on well-known old blues with rhythm and blues and rock thrown in.
That's a wide enough reach to cover a lot of ground. They draw on the songs of Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayall, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James and Otis Rush, among many others. It's a list that runs from the early Delta and Chicago sounds through to the electric players who carried it forward, so you'll hear the roots and the later interpretations in the same set.
On stage, the band is Paul Roger on vocals and harmonica, Brian Hudson on electric and slide guitar, Tony Ellis on bass guitar and electric double bass, and Kevin White on drums and assorted percussion. With the harmonica and the slide guitar both in the mix, there's plenty of the traditional blues sound there, and the double bass adds another layer to the low end.
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It's a Sunday night session, so it's a bit later than your usual gig — 8:30pm at The Anchor Inn in Hastings.
