Homemade Jamz Blues Band – Pay Me No Mind & I Got Blues For You!
Bob Davis appears courtesy Soul-Patrol.net
NOTE: THIS BAND IS A GAME CHANGER FOR MUSIC
Homemade Jamz Blues Band
Here is the TWITTER REVIEW:
“Pay Me No Mind” & “I Got Blues For You” by the Homemade Jamz Blues Band are two excellent albums done by an amazing band. If you like Classic Soul, Classic Rock & Classic Blues, you will think that you have died and gone to heaven: www.hmjamzbluesband.com
Here is the TWITTER REPLY after being asked “Who in the hell are the Homemade Jamz Blues Band?” They are kinda like a genre busting combination of Elvis Presley,Jackson Five, The Beatles and Wilson Pickett. Their sound is like STAX, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters all rolled into one and they should be bigger than the Jonas Brothers & Miley Cyrus combined (but aren’t): ( Visit >>> Homemade Jamz Blues Band < << Website)
(well that last reply was more than 140 characters, but you get the idea)
As some of you all may recall, I first encountered the Homemade Jamz Blues Band about two years ago on a lazy Sunday morning while watching the CBS Morning News. The Homemade Jamz Blues Band consists of 3 young siblings from Tupelo, MS. (hometown of Elvis) Ryan Perry, 17yrs. old,Kyle Perry, 15yrs old, and Taya Perry, 10yrs. old. Here are the internet links to both the video and the story that I saw at that time.
READ >>>> CBS News Homemade Jamz Story
Watch >>> CBS News Story Homemade Jamz Blues Band
Needless to say I went ballistic after seeing them on TV. I immediately started writing about them. I went to their MySpace page and wrote a message to them asking if they had any recordings available. A few days later I got a reply back from them telling me that they were working on an album and that they would contact me when it was finished. And that was the last thing that I heard from them, till a few weeks ago when I got an email asking if I would be interested in reviewing their second album. I requested that they send me their first one as well.
I suppose that this is that review.
And my recommendation is that you pick up on both albums, not only if you are the least bit interested in Classic Soul, Classic Rock & Classic Blues, but if you are interested in owning a piece of the history of the future of Black music. This is the most compelling artist that I have had the pleasure of listening to in a long time. In fact I would put this music right up there with how I felt the very first time that I was exposed to artists like Jimi Hendrix or the Jackson Five. This is the type of thing that you don’t have to hear twice or wait for anyone else to validate it for you. You don’t need the mainstream media to tell you that this is an artist that you should be interested in. I’ll probably blow them up on BOTH the RadioIO.com Blues and Nu Soul Channels, simply because I find them and their music to be so compelling!!!
And that is also what seems to be so troubling about the Homemade Jamz Blues Band for me. In my mind, two years after I was first introduced to them via the CBS Morning News, tearing up the Blues circuit, producing not one, but TWO TREMENDOUS ALBUMS, with a group that not only features a charismatic 17 year old lead guitarist/lead singer who plays like Jimi Hendrix and sings like Wilson Picket and an 11 year old phunky azz drummer who is as cute as Raven Symonne was when we first met her on the Cosby show, with a backstory that is as American as “apple pie,” the question must be asked…
WHY AREN’T THEY BIGGER????
I mean, from any perspective that you might want to look at this, they are in fact the replacement for the aging (& deceased) Blues legends of the past. There is no doubt that they deliver the goods, both live and on stage.
IMHO the Homemade Jamz Blues Band should be HUGE right now. They should be at the level of Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers and other young artists who don’t have HALF of their talent!!!
It’s not because of a lack of mainstream exposure, if you go to their website, you can see that they have actually gotten quite a bit of that. Perhaps their parents don’t want them to be out there for fear that they might not have a “normal childhood?”
I dunno what the reason is, all I know is that my feeling is that there shouldn’t be a week that goes by that we shouldn’t see them on a major TV show. They probably should have played at least a couple of gigs at the White House by now. Maybe I shouldn’t even be concerned about it and just be happy that the quality of their music is do damn good?
However I can’t let it go. And the reason I can’t is because on multiple levels and for multiple reasons, the Homemade Jamz Blues Band is a GAME CHANGER:
-Not just for music
-Not just for culture
-But in ways that go way beyond anything that we would see in the mass media
They are one of those type of once in a while kinda artists that could literally define the culture of a generation and to re-define it if they stay around long enough. And I care about this so much because my feeling is that the generation that they come from so badly needs that type of an artist…
Anyhow, enough of that!
Here are the track listings for both albums. If you have read this far that means you will probably love them both and if you find yourself short of ca$h during this recession, and you are going to only buy 2 albums this year, you would be extremely happy with your selections if you brought these two.
Pay Me No Mind (2008)
1. Who Your Real Friends Are
2. Voodoo Woman
3. The World’s Been Good To You
4. Right Thang Wrong Woman
5. Penny Waiting On Change
6. Blues Concerto
7. Time for Change
8. Pay Me No Mind
9. Jealous
10. Shake Rag 9
11. Boom Boom
I Got Blues For You (2009)
1. Hard Headed Woman
2. Rumors
3. Dusk Till Dawn
4. Roots
5. Heaven Lost An Angel
6. Loco Blues
7. King Snake
8. Hobo Man
9. Alcoholic Woman
10. In The Wind
11. Grits Ain’t Groceries
12. I Got Blues For You
Homemade Jamz Blues Band – www.hmjamzbluesband.com
Homemade Jamz Blues Bands Music available @ EarwaxOnline.com
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Bob Davis
earthjuice[at]prodigy.net
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