How Did I Ever Get This Blue King Solomon Hicks

• 1 Further On Up The Road 04:18
• 2 Dimples 03:26
• 3 Driftin' And Driftin' 03:50
• 4 All Your Love [I Miss Loving] 03:59
• 5 Flyin’ High [Yesterday] 03:14
• 6 How Did I Ever Get This Blue 04:28
• 7 I'm Burnin' Up 04:00
• 8 When I Was Your Man 04:23
• 9 Rumour Has It 05:17
• 10 It Feels Like Rain 04:27
• 11 Memphis, Tennessee 02:49
• Total Runtime 44:11

Info zu How Did I Ever Get This Blue

New York blues hotshot Solomon Hicks has announced details of his new album How Did I Ever Get This Blue?.

Hicks is a thrilling paradox, a sonic contradiction. He’s an old-soul roots scholar who salutes ancient musical forms – blues, jazz, soul, funk, gospel – but also a renegade gunslinger here to bend, stretch and scratch them for the modern world. His songs race from earworm originals, past pop covers torn up with electronica and punky riffs, to reignited blues standards that prove how potent this genre still is in the right hands.

How Did I Ever Get This Blue? was recorded in Austin, Texas, with producer Kirk Yano. Hicks assembled a crack-squad studio band that spans from US roots icons like Chris ‘Whipper’ Layton of Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble to seminal Bronx turntablist DJ Logic. Sound shocking? If Solomon Hicks came to shock us, mission accomplished. Fusing age-old human truths with street-smart modern attitude – while tearing up the rulebook of how roots music can sound – How Did I Ever Get This Blue? is the instant-classic sequel to Harlem that will lock down devotees and rally new fans to the cause.

"I want to shock people," says Solomon Hicks with a megawatt smile.

Solomon Hicks, guitar
Bénabar, vocals
Frank Amato, vocals
Joanna Connor, slide guitar
Tommy Mandel, keyboards
John Nemeth, harmonica
Kevin McCormick, bass
Keith Shocklee, drum programming
Les Warner, drums

King Solomon Hicks
At the age of 13 Solomon started playing with the Cotton Club 17-piece band as Lead Guitarist and still continues to perform there.

Along with being called “Lil’ B.B.” he played the KISS Kruise V, 2017 Joe Bonamassa Blues Cruise, Spain [FESTIVAL DE BLUES DE BÉJAR-Blues CAZORLA-San Javier], Jazz Marciac in France, and the Tokyo Cotton Club.

He has been featured in The Washington Post, New York Daily News, The New York Times, Amsterdam News, November 2016 front cover of Blues Blast magazine, Montana’s Bigfork Eagle, New Jersey Jazz Society News, and the PBS TV series American Music.

Solomon has performed with Tony Bennett, The Destroyers (George Thorogood), Neal Evans (Soulive), Jimmy Vivino (Bandleader for Conan O’Brien), Sam Moore, Marcus King, Stax Songwriter William Bell, John Nemeth, Blind Boy Paxton, Roger Earl (Foghat), Kim Simmonds (Savoy Brown), Davey Knowles, Ne-Yo, Jon Hendricks, Mike Stern and Lee Ritenour.

He performs regularly in NYC at The Iridium, BB Kings, Ashford and Simpson’s Sugar Bar, The Red Rooster, Terra Blues, Minton’s Playhouse and Ginny’s.

Solomon has taught music at the Children’s Aid Society , is a Harlem Arts Alliance member, supporter of the NYC Jazzmobile and a member of The Blues Foundation in Memphis.

His first major release on Mascot Label Group will hit the streets in late Spring 2018.

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