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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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Currently,Chris Scott is working on two projects side by side - somewhat of a Jeckle and Hyde situation..... The first,
and his most radical work yet - is ‘Bluesdevil‘. Aimed
at re-vitalizing the blues for the 21st century, it mixes old classics
and his own songs with modern beats and grooves, with a new album in
progress, scheduled for trial release later in the year. He says that
it is ‘raw and groovy... visceral... like blues should be...‘ |
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The other current project is 'Longdog' - with talented songwrighter and bass player Tracy Neil Elliss-Brookes, blending roots influences in urban acoustic original music, a progression from 'Crawdaddy' and 'Scribble', with the strapline 'great songs you never thought you knew'. |
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