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Featuring an exclusive interview with Sandi Thom where she discusses the natural progression and growth through her previous albums which have lead to forthcoming 4th record “Flesh and Blood”, touring and recording with her idols. Pick up your in your local WH Smith’s or order the digital copy online via maverick-country.com NOW.
Also featured is a 4-star review of “Flesh and Blood”. Check out what they had to say below:
Sandi Thom
FLESH AND BLOOD
4/5
Stone the Crows!
Sandi rocks the blues.
This is Sandi Thom’s fourth album in seven years and you can draw a bloodline straight through the first threee to get to FLESH AND BLOOD. Speaking of bloodlines, the young Scots singer appears to have picked up the dusty baton that Maggie Bell once ferociously clutched to her chest. Neatly mixing songs by Sonny Boy Williamson II, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Leadbelly, with her own heartfelt musings, Sandi Thom has created an album that just might blast her into the musical stratosphere.FLESH AND BLOOD gets a kick start with Sonny Boy II’s Help Me and is cock full of the most blues-wailin’ harmonica solos and beefy guitar licks I’ve heard in years. Couple that with Ms. Thom’s warm throaty vocals, you just know you are onto a winner.
In The Pines probably owes more to the unplugged version that Nirvana performed on TV, as the Scottish singer puts her heart, soul and lungs into every verse without losing any of Leadbelly’s original subtlety.
Of her own songs, Sun Comes Crashing Down and I See The Devils In You prove what a great blues-meets-soul voice Sandi Thom has, as the Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson builds a sound around her vocals that George Martin would be proud of.
The Big Ones Get Away is a lot quieter that the rest of the tracks on the album and features the wonderful duet with Buffy St. Marie, who originally wrote the song.
Staying with the slower second half of the album, Love You Like A Lunatic is a really deep, soulful love song, and certainly ranks as one of her best. The album ends with Lay Your Burden Down, which begins with a single, soft drum beat and a Hammond organ supporting Sandi as she pours her heart out. A spine tingling guitar takes the song onto a whole other level, before we go back to the organ and simple drum beat to the fade., making it a very clever and beautiful song. FLESH AND BLOOD is the classiest Bluesy-Rock album I’ve heard in Years.
-Alan Harrison
