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JD Simo - JD Simo (Album Review)

August 20, 2020 by David Vousden in Album Reviews, Blues, Soul, Psych

The debut solo album from JD Simo ‘Off at 11’ (review) married bluesy tones with psychedelic influences and delivered them with impressive gusto. JD had something to say musically and the chops to deliver his message, which he conveyed to the masses via over 150 live shows spreading the word the old fashioned way by putting in the miles. JD took the songs he’d written on the road into his “funky little eight-track studio” resulting in a new album that expands even further on his bluesy psychedelia adding a layer of old-school soul to the mix.

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August 20, 2020 /David Vousden
JD Simo
Album Reviews, Blues, Soul, Psych
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JD Simo - Off At 11 (Album Review)

March 19, 2019 by David Vousden in Album Reviews, Blues, Classic Rock, Singer-Songwriter

Nashville-based singer and guitarist JD Simo is currently touring the UK (March 2019) with guitar great Tommy Emmanuel CGP so his credentials as a guitarist will not be in question. I’d incorrectly assumed that JD was a straight-ahead bluesman; an assumption blown out of the water by ‘Off At 11’. The blues play a major part in JD’s sound but jazz fans and psychedelic rockers will find much to enjoy as JD and his terrific band; Adam Abrashoff (drums) and bass player Luke Easterling play up a storm on a freewheeling set that owes as big a debt to Miles Davis and The Grateful Dead as it does the Lightnin’ Hopkins and BB King.

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March 19, 2019 /David Vousden
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Album Reviews, Blues, Classic Rock, Singer-Songwriter
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