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Chris Scott first came to public notice with a band named ‘The Royal Assassins’. Sharing the same label (Fire) as Chuck Prophet, The Blue Aeroplanes and Pulp, an album and single were released. ‘Music Week’ approved mightily and called them "a riotous explosion of electric voodoo" |
| Chris then took an extended sojourn travelling round Europe, busking, becoming interested in Roots Musics and re-discovering his love of Blues, the music that first inspired him as a youth. It was at this time that he developed his uniquely dynamic percussive style of playing using a combination of picking, slide, clawing, hammering and slapping techniques... |
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However, circumstances soon placed him firmly back on the road, both solo and with his band at the time, ‘Blind Lemon Beefcake’, and he released another two albums, ‘Preachin’ the Blues/Praying for Deliverance’, and ‘Play Loud’, again to critical acclaim... |
| He barnstormed the festivals and circuit for two seasons, gathering press plaudits such as "some of the best acoustic blues you could wish to hear","his stunning ‘in yer face’ guitar and vocals thrilled the packed room" and "this was Delta style that threatened to blow the place apart". |
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Then he joined forces with Steve Payne, another guitarist who had played with the likes of Steve Tilston, Dr. John and Bob Dylan, and formed a band called ‘Crawdaddy’, touring again, and releasing an eponymously named CD using the cream of the South West’s musicians, and, a year later, the delicious ‘Dreamworld’. .. |
| Eventually, they filmed a trip around the East Coast of the USA, jamming with musicians of all sorts of roots genres there in unusual locations, (all called Bristol) to be transmitted on HTV in 1998 under the title ‘Crawdaddy - Bristol to Bristol’. A CD, ‘Hope’, recorded live, was released to coincide with the transmission dates... |  |
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He is fond of experimenting with mixing genres, as is typical with his short lived project ‘Jack the Dripper’, which mixed freeform jazz and psychedelia with delta grooves. Using just a drummer and saxes harps and flutes, sometimes numbers would meander for hours!.. |
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Now Chris Scott
returns again, playing solo and with his new outfit, ‘The Faith Healers’,
with a new set of tunes, entitled ‘Hands On’,
and working with an outfit including a D.J. and a heavy dub bass player
- ‘Boneyard 10’ - all of which is dedicated to "dragging the blues kicking
and screaming into the 21st Century". |
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the blues devil is back... |
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