Sonic Blues Preachers

Description

Sonic Blues Preachers is a red-hot slab of funky, dirty, bluesy rock n roll laced with some Mississippi Delta-inspired 12-string acoustic slide guitar material. Gwyn Ashton's ninth studio album project features collaboration with one of Australia's most musical drummers, the formidable John Freeman from the pre AC/DC Bon Scott-fronted band Fraternity. These two musicians are on top of their game as they go head-to-head into battle, the interplay between them second-to-none resulting in a cutting-edge album full of rockin' melodic songs with a strong pop sensibility, co-penned with Ashton's writing partner Garry Allen. The songs are full of hooks, big guitar riffs, killer bottleneck slide and fat dirty grooves, some cheeky, sinister and dark but all highly hypnotic and fresh.This collection of contagious retro-meets-modern should satisfy the most ardent blues and rock aficionado. Recorded in Adelaide, Sonic Blues Preachers was then mixed by Gavin Monaghan at Magic Garden Studio, England through a vintage analogue recording console (the very one used on Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album). The session was interrupted by Robert Plant taking Monaghan into Abbey Road for a few days of tracking on one of Plant's projects. Once again, Ashton's mastering engineer former Sony Records Los Angeles David Mitson, an essential part of the team, brought it all together. Amongst many other classic albums over a span of 30 years Mitson also re-mastered Sgt Pepper, Electric Ladyland and the Sony Blues catalogue, including the Robert Johnson box set. Ashton's back catalogue features musicians from Deep Purple, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Phil Lynott's Grand Slam, as well as Robert Plant's and Rory Gallagher's bands. Sonic Blues Preachers is the follow-up to his 2017 highly-acclaimed psychedelic one-man band release, Solo Elektro.