Italy and Veneto in particular boast a long and exciting blues history, with some great protagonists: the missing Guido Toffoletti, a Venetian who died in 1999, Rudy Rotta, who lived in Verona at the age of 18 and died in 2017 and other loyalists like Tolo Marton and the Morblues band of the Veronese Roberto Morbioli. Behind these spearheads a crowd of passionate musicians in love with this ageless and timeless genre has also taken root in Italy and still manages to conquer a heterogeneous audience, thanks to the loyalty of the sound and its impact, artists who frills and frills prefer substance.
Among this crowd of unspeakable bluesmen, who continues undaunted to offer this sound also to the new generations, the Treviso-based Stefano Stella has also entered for several years, on the scene since the early 90s and active in various formations including Guido's Blues Society. Toffoletti in 1996-97. Stefano also boasts an experience in Austin (Texas) where he drank from the sources of the blues, comparing himself on a par with the local scene. An intense live activity that does not prevent him from finally reaching, in the prime of his artistic maturity, the publication of his first album with the emblematic title, Musician's blues. Nine tracks, mostly of his own composition (with the lyrics written by his friend and great bluesman Stefano Zabeo), to be listened to in one breath, without interruption. The blues when it is of quality takes you and carries you with it, sometimes it drags you, other times it cradles you, sometimes it envelops you and seduces you. So is this splendid album, which crowns the career of Stefano Stella, a true “blues musician”.
In this record there is everything: the strength, the sweetness, the embrace, the gaze into the depths. Intense riffs, guitar rides, a warm sound based on the languor of Corrado Menegon's bass and the enveloping rhythm of Simone Manzato's drums. And a voice that accompanies you, taking you by the hand. An album that has no moments of weakness, which must be listened to in its entirety, perhaps when the sun goes down or when the highway is a line that goes towards the horizon. Love is over opens the record with a deep and soft drums, Stop stop baby is punctuated by the guitar, Musician's blues is pure blues. The classic Backdoor man confuses at first with an intro that refers to the glorious times of Lucio Battisti, and then channeled into the classic blues round of this historic Willy Dixon piece. Fantastica is the cover of Help the poor, a beautiful song by C. Singleton known in the versions of Eric Clapton with B.B. King and Robben Ford's. The line-up of the disc is the classic power trio, to which three guests are added here and there, who all leave their mark. So does Pia Coppe, excellent on back vocals and Carlo Zambon on harmonica. In the last song, Sitting in my kitchen, Carlo Zambon introduces with his harmonica a torrential and fiery blues in which Alberto Zorzi's precise honky tonk-style piano also peeps out.
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Tracklist:
01. Love is Over 05:42
02. Stop Stop Baby 06:24
03. Musician's Blues 05:48
04. Backdoor Man 07:13
05. Help the Poor 05:40
06. I'm a Workman 06:08
07. Lonely Avenue 06:09
08. You Don't Love Me 05:04
09. Sitting in My Kitchen 06:58
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