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Doc Blues Records |
"ANYONE
WITH A TASTE FOR VIRTUOSITY IS DIRECTED TO JEFFERY P. ROSS"
Chris Morris/BILLBOARD
AUSTIN---Veteran guitar virtuoso JEFFREY P. ROSS delivers all hues of blues on his debut disc as a leader, a sparkling collection of enlightened blues recorded with a vintage feel. Ross, equally at home with tunes by Earl Hooker, Django Reinhardt and Albert Collins, explores an expansive blues landscape on the disc and does so with uniformly excellent results. Ross, who BILLBOARD notes "smokes in every imaginable style", has an extensive cast of kindred spirits, including Guy Forsyth, Nick Curran, J. Jaye Smith, and Gene Taylor, assisting his efforts but it's the guitarist who is finally front and center and he shines brightly with undeniable blues brilliance from first note to last.
JEFFREY P. ROSS and his guitar have been involved in an amazing number of inventive and unusual musical situations, ranging stylistically all the way from his early work with the classic cowpunk creators Rank & File to the cosmopolitan creativity of his contemporary project, the Gypsy jazz unit Club Django. And after a couple of decades of brightening up the sound of others he's confidently stepping into the spotlight in his own right with a sparkling collection of enlightened blues.
Ross has recorded with California guitar-slingers the Hellecasters and Austin's eclectic roots aggregation the Asylum Street Spankers, as well as working with a trio of distinctive, if admittedly dissimilar, female vocalists; bawdy blues belter Candye Kane, rockabilly rebel Rosie Flores and alt-country angel Kelly Willis. And, befitting a guitarist who chose the blues as the context for his first solo outing, Ross naturally has deep and diverse blues experience, including work with West Coast blues stalwarts such as hard-blowing James Harman and the late William Clarke.
But all those musical affiliations---and they're by no means the full extent of Ross's career accomplishments---serve merely as a provocative prelude for "My Pleasure", the first recording to feature Ross's expansive and exciting guitar work under his own name in the service of his own tunes.