E D D I E
'D E V I L B O Y'
T U R N E R
CUBAN/AMERICAN
BLUES GUITARIST/SINGER/SONGWRITER
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
ON THE RAY SHASHO SHOW -BBS RADIO
Eddie Turner has done just about everything. A
guitarist since age 12, he honed his skills alongside San Francisco's legendary
Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth in the '70s and Denver's hard-hitting Zephyr in
the '80s, before becoming a founding member of the Otis Taylor Band in the '90s
and then earning a prestigious Blues Music Award nomination for his own solo
career in the mid-2000s.
The Denver-based guitarist, singer and bandleader
has toured the world, garnering countless fans and an outpouring of critical
acclaim in the process.
But "Naked ... In Your Face" marks a
first for Turner, who has never before released an in-concert recording. The
title tells you all you need to know: No shrinking violet of a live album, this
varied, vibrant set finds the musician at his most stylistically audacious,
crossing boundaries with the same brazen confidence he's shown throughout his
career. Recorded last August at The Blues Can in Calgary, Alberta, during a
tour of Canada and the western United States, the album features Turner in a
power-trio format. Joining him are bassist Anna Lisa Hughes, a fellow Denver
resident who sings lead on several cuts here, including covers of classics such
as "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "Buried Alive in the
Blues" as well as her original composition "Mistreated," and
drummer Kelly Kruse, an in-demand sideman in Canada who also plays guitar with
Calgary's Adele & the Krusers.
"I still get emails saying, 'That was one of
the best bands I've ever seen. When are you going to tour again?'" says
Turner. "And I loved the way Anna Lisa's voice and mine meshed together.
The three of us came together and threw all our influences into a pot, ending
up with something that's completely different. I wanted to record songs that,
without this particular band, I'll probably never do again."
Fitting for a man who grew up outside of Chicago
watching iconic blues figures such as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf ply their
trade -- but also seeing acts like Jimi Hendrix and Cream take the music to
new, more rock-influenced directions -- Turner has developed a sound that's
informed by tradition yet adventurous enough to not be limited by it. As the
man himself puts it, "If you want to be a purist, be one not because you
started there and stopped there. Be one because you went everywhere else and
decided to come back. Because no music is truly pure. Everything has a little
dirt in it."
2011 Blues Blast Nominee " BEST CONTEMPORARY
BLUES CD "
2006 BMA " BEST NEW ARTIST " Nominee
10th Annual Independent Music Awards Nominee " BEST BLUES SONG "
10th Annual Independent Music Awards Nominee " BEST BLUES SONG "
"If anybody ever went down to the Crossroads and let the Devil tune hisguitar it was probably Eddie Turner. Man, you get chills every time the guystrikes a note! And the expressions he makes while he's talking out eachlick leave one convinced he's channeling other-worldly ancestral demi-gods."
NAKED ... IN YOUR FACE
BY EDDIE TURNER & TROUBLE TWINS
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E D D I E
'D E V I L B O Y'
T U R N E R
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