Review: Pay Me No Mind by The Homemade Jamz' Blues Band

 

 

PAY ME NO MIND The Homemade Jamz Blues Band Northern Blues Music, www.northernblues.com   Combine youth, talent and enthusiasm with top-notch songs and you have the recipe for success.  In the blues music genre that result is embodied in the new CD Pay Me No Mind by The Homemade Jamz’ Blues Band.  These three young Perry siblings from Tupelo, Mississippi, present their fresh, original sound on their fantastic debut album from Northern Blues Music.    These youngsters have been wowing blues fans all over the country for the past several years.  They broke onto the blues scene with an impressive first appearance at the famed Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and followed up with bookings at festivals, a blues cruise, and a segment on the CBS Sunday Morning Show.  The band won second place in the band category at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2007 to then sign with Northern Blues Music.  They are the youngest blues band in history to sign with a major recording label.   Ryan, fifteen, handles guitar and vocals, with Kyle, thirteen, on bass and sister Taya, nine, on drums.  But don’t let their age fool you.  The group has the polish and professionalism that usually only comes after years of experience.  Ryan’s wailing guitar work on songs like “Time for a Change” has the flavor of some of the best known artists in the field.   Pay Me No Mind includes  eleven tracks:   1.  Who Your Real Friends Are 2.  Voodoo Woman 3.  The World’s Been Good to You 4.  Right Thang Wrong Woman 5.  Penny Waiting on Change 6.  Blues Concerto 7.  Time for Change 8.  Pay Me No Mind 9.  Jealous 10. Shake Rag 11. Boom Boom   Other than John Lee Hooker’s Shake Rag, their father, Renaud, who joins in with his harmonica on four of the tracks, writes all the songs.  Producer Miles Wilkerson adds rhythm guitar to four of the numbers as well.    Ranging from upbeat songs like “Jealous” and “Blues Concerto” to traditional down home country blues like “Penny Waiting on Change” The Homemade Jamz’ Blues Band have cooked up some sweet Mississippi hill country sounds.  Pay Me No Mind is solid blues’ gold.     The Homemade Jamz' Blues Band will be appearing at the Strand Theater on June 19, 2008.  For information:  www.rocklandstrand.com   For more information about The Homemade Jamz’ Blues Band, please visit their website, www.homemadejamzband.com . -- Shannon Riley   This review is also available on  www.southernroseproductions.net  www.myspace.com/shannonriley_author www.amazon.com   Please feel free to share with your friends.