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Danny Bryant: Blood Money

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Label: JazzHaus Records
Released: 2016.01.29
Time:
 48:53
Category: Blues, Rock Blues
Producer(s): Richard Hammerton
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.dannybryant.com
Appears with: Walter Trout
Purchase date: 2016
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Blood Money [feat. Walter Trout] (Danny Bryant) - 4:59
[2] Master Plan (Danny Bryant) - 4:19
[3] Slow Suicide (Danny Bryant) - 5:49
[4] Unchained (Danny Bryant) - 4:27
[5] On the Rocks (Danny Bryant) - 3:59
[6] Sugar Sweet (Danny Bryant / Richard Hammerton) - 4:10
[7] Fool's Game (Danny Bryant) - 5:07
[8] Holding All the Cards (Danny Bryant) - 3:51
[9] Just Wont Burn [feat. Bernie Marsden] (Danny Bryant) - 6:55
[10] Sara Jayne (Danny Bryant / Richard Hammerton) - 4:53

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Danny Bryant - Guitar, Vocals
Alex Phillips - Bass
Dave Raeburn - Drums
Richard Hammerton - Keyboards,Backing Vocals, Producer, Mixing

Walter Trout - Guitar & Vocals on [1]

Eric Corne - Recording Engineer
Gwyn Mathias - Mastering
Marc Raner - Artwork
Jim Templeton - Cover & Inner Sleeve Photography

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2016 CD Jazzhaus Records JHR-120



British guitar slinger Danny Bryant wanted to return to his roots and an appreciation of his blues influences, by paying homage, as he puts it “to all the different influences and flavors of this wonderful music that I have loved for many years.” With that goal in mind, Danny was quite successful with his latest release, Blood Money. That success includes drafting two guitar legends to guest with him.

With some swirling keyboards, Danny splits time with his long time mentor Walter Trout on vocal and guitar duties on the opening title track of “Blood Money,” and this track lays a clear foundation for what you are going to get for the rest of the album, a perfect combination of blues and rock. This transitions into the harder edged blues of “Master Plan” with its rolling rhythm that carries the song along while Danny dips heavily into the Wah-Wah pedal. “Slow Suicide” gets introspective as we blend some electric and acoustic guitar work on this slow blues and are treated two excellent solos.

Danny pays tribute to a couple of seminal artists with a few tracks on here starting with the soulful blues of “Unchained.” A funky starting riff to “Unchained” is unfortunately wasted when it’s never picked up again in the rest of the song. This transitions into an organ filled instrumental ala Albert Collins. The rock comes to the forefront with the ZZ Top like sound of “Sugar Sweet.” Things start out funky for “Fool’s Game” and power chord rock driven sections battle it out back and forth throughout the song. “Holding All The Cards” is clearly a boogie in the style of Jimmy Reed with percussive piano throughout it.

Things really get interesting though when Danny’s second guest steps up to the amp. “Just Won’t Burn” features Bernie Marsden and is dripping in that classic arena rock sound and just when you think it’s too much, a little piano line breaks it up. It’s just slow enough to teeter on the edge of being a ballad without crossing the line at that point, but it builds and builds as Bernie and Danny lay on the guitars. Speaking of ballads though, the album closes it out with the piano laden “Sara Jane” as he laments a lost love.

Blood Money delivers on Danny’s desire “to make this album ever since I began my musical journey 20 years ago as a 15 year old boy who fell in love with his parent’s record collection.” It is a great way to start out the New Year.

Rating 8.5 out of 10

Kevin O’Rourke - January 13th, 2016
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Danny Bryant has long been a wonderfully expressive guitarist, but his songwriting and singing haven't always matched the calibre of that sumptuous fretwork. Until now. 'Blood Money', the ninth album of his career, finds him in the form of his life. His all round game is mightily impressive on a record he describes as his “most bluesy” to date.

Bryant’s previous two efforts – both helmed by returning producer Richard Hammerton – attempted to broaden his aesthetic, but 2012's 'Hurricane' sounded unsure of itself, often falling prey to cliché and imitation a result. The much improved 'Temperature Rising' suggested he was finding his place in a modern blues-rock world and greatness wasn't far away. 'Blood Money' delivers on that promise, even if the concept initially seemed somewhat regressive. 

The idea was to revisit the records that shaped his musical journey and write a batch of blues songs in the style of his heroes, a couple of whom make stunning cameo appearances as Bryant does his beloved genre proud.

The resurgent Walter Trout – Bryant's long time friend and mentor – adds hearty vocal clobber to the kiss-off throb of the title track, while former Whitesnake axeman Bernie Marsden appears on a jaw-dropping ballad, Just Won't Burn. To hear the two masters trade solos with such visceral passion is beyond brilliant.

Elsewhere, Unchained broods with Albert King's mean-spirited glare and delivers a slithering funk groove with punchy Stax horns, Sugar Sweet is a ZZ Top chunk of gasoline-powered swagger and Fool's Game's dynamic interplay between dainty licks and heavy bursts tips a lyrical wink to Albert Collins.

Trying to recreate the sounds of yesteryear could have led to a well executed, albeit hollow facsimile of a record. But by pouring so much of himself into every song – combined with increased lyrical panache that explores love, media incitement of racial hatred, the perils of gambling and death – Bryant hurdles that wall, his introspective auteur's voice shining through on the likes of Slow Suicide, a stirring song about mortality.

His vocals, meanwhile, have improved considerably. The monstrous roar of Master Plan, for example, sounds like he conditioned his vocal chords by heading down to the Mississippi delta and swallowing a bucket load of grit from the river bed. He's still a little wobbly in the upper range and will never be a Howlin’ Wolf or Robert Cray, but the feeling with which he brings these songs to life overrides any qualms about technique or tone.

Throughout, his guitar playing is, unsurprisingly, sensational. On The Rocks showcases an intuitive knack for knowing when to play, when to let the space between phrases linger and how effective repeatedly spanking a single note can be, while the aforementioned Just Won't Burn epitomises his unhurried, poetic eloquence and emotional purity.

This confident, commanding and hugely enjoyable record is a testament to how Bryant's personal and musical growth has nourished his ability to not just play the blues, but embody it with every fibre of his being. This is the sound of a man completely at one with his medium, and while others may add a contemporary sheen to the genre, the more traditional path is clearly the one he should be walking.

Simon Ramsay  - Tuesday, 02 February 2016
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Blood Money ist das dritte Album nach Temperature Rising (2013) und Hurricane (2014), welches von Richard Hammerton produziert wurde. Auf diesem Album wird Danny Bryant von Walter Trout und Bernie Marsden bei zwei Songs unterstützt. Die Zusammenarbeit mit Bernie Marsden und Walter Trout für dieses Album war ein Highlight meiner bisherigen Karriere, so der 35jährige aus Royston, Hertfordshire, England. Dieses Album wollte ich schon immer aufnehmen, schon vor 20 Jahren als meine musikalische Laufbahn begann und ich mich als 15-jähriger Junge in die Plattensammlung meiner Eltern verliebte.

Mit Blood Money nahm Bryant ein Album auf, welches eine introspektive Rückkehr zu seinen Wurzeln und eine dankbare Hommage an den Blues ist, um all die verschiedenen Einflüsse und Geschmacksrichtungen von dieser wundervollen Musik, die ich seit vielen Jahren liebe auf einem Tonträger zu bündeln. On the Rocks ist eine Huldigung an den verstorbenen großen US-amerikanischer Blues-Gitarrist und Sänger Albert Collins, Holding All The Cards an Jimmy Reed, während Unchained an erlesene Stax Alben von Albert King erinnert.

Der Titeltrack Blood Money wurde von Danny Bryant schon vor Jahren geschrieben, der Song wartete nur auf den richtigen Zeitpunkt und vor allem auf den richtigen Partner, um ihn zum Leben zu erwecken. Schon beim Komponieren hatte er Walter Trout als den perfekten Partner im Kopf, welchen er mit 14 Jahren zufällig bei einem Konzert kennenlernte und seitdem für ihn zu einem musikalischen Mentor wurde. Ich bin wirklich begeistert, dass Walter sich bereit erklärt hat, die Gitarre auf dem Track einzuspielen. Es ist eine Ehre für mich und das Ergebnis ist wirklich atemberaubend, so Bryant.

Ein weiterer Höhepunkt auf dem Album ist der Beitrag einer von Bryants all-time-Favorites Gitarristen und Singer-Songwriter Bernie Marsden, um mit ihm die besondere Ballade mit dem Titel Just Won t Burn aufzunehmen. Die beiden waren sofort auf einer Wellenlänge und das Lied wurde innerhalb von Stunden an einem Nachmittag eingespielt. Während der Aufnahme bekam Bryant die Möglichkeit, Marsden berühmten 1959 Les Paul -'The Beast ' zu spielen.

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