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Tim de Graeve (1978-2022). Raised in rural Westouter in Belgium, Tim discovered his love for blues music through his father's record collection, including an acoustic album by Blind Lemon Jefferson. He took classical guitar lessons from the age of eight and soon began writing his own songs. Tim formed his own blues band at the age of 17. Tim went to Ghent to study biology at university and lived there for the rest of his life. He worked as a teacher for a time, making music with his band The Heartfakers as a hobby. At the age of 20, a nine-year ordeal began. Even as a child he had problems with his liver, but this was not correctly diagnosed at the time. This was to take revenge, because as a young man he spent most of his time in the hospital getting liver transplants and fighting for his life. Meanwhile, Tim focused on learning how to play his grandfather's slide guitar and delving into blues classics like delta blues and writing songs. Back then he swore to himself that if he survived, he would dedicate his life to become a professional musician. In 2009, he released his debut EP Please Dr. Please under the name Tiny Legs Tim & The Concrete Blues Band. He then focused on releasing solo work as a singer-songwriter for a number of years. His stage name, Tiny Legs, was a reference to his small and thin appearance, which was a result of his severe liver disease. Inspiration came from some of his blues heroes like Blind Willy Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, and Sleepy John Estes, who also have three-part names, often describing a physical characteristic. He thought it was a funny name that had a self-relating effect. It was a way of dealing with his "new" body. He recorded more albums, sometimes solo, sometimes with a drummer or harp-player or like on the marvelous 2019 album Elsewhere Bound with an eight-piece band. For Call Us When It's Over Tim founded a new four-piece band that recorded these six tracks during the pandemic (hence the album title). This band blew everyone away at the Goezot Festival in Turnhout in September 2021. Juke Joint 500 instantly struck a deal which hopefully was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship. This was not to be as Tim de Graeve died during an operation in hospital in May 2022.
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Dirty beats, hypnotizing slide, screaming harmonica riffs and plenty of fuzz: all of these will be served by this four-men band from Belgium. Boogie Beasts translate their passion for (hill country) blues into a most characteristic sound of their own, which has a touch of The Black Keys jamming with John Lee Hooker at a rave in the wee hours of the morning, or Morphine on a psychedelic trip with Little Walter, or even RL Burnside backed up by the young Rolling Stones at a juke joint-gig. So far, the bass-less (two guitars, harmonica, drums) band released three studio albums and played all venues in Beneluxa last three times. Here's the story behind their fourth album, Blues From Jupiter: In early 2021, venues and clubs were closed due to restrictions from the Covid pandemic. Belgian blues rock band Boogie Beasts were looking for alternatives to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. On March 6, they are live on Facebook from Studio Jupiter, where they recorded their second and third album but also owned by their sound engineer Koenraad Foesters. During the entire livestream, Boogie Beasts honored their roots and biggest influence: the blues. It resulted in an intense and energetic set of 11 covers that were received with great enthusiasm. The feedback was so enthusiastic that the idea arose to release this live session as an album.
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LP version. Edition of 666. Dirty beats, hypnotizing slide, screaming harmonica riffs and plenty of fuzz: all of these will be served by this four-men band from Belgium. Boogie Beasts translate their passion for (hill country) blues into a most characteristic sound of their own, which has a touch of The Black Keys jamming with John Lee Hooker at a rave in the wee hours of the morning, or Morphine on a psychedelic trip with Little Walter, or even RL Burnside backed up by the young Rolling Stones at a juke joint-gig. So far, the bass-less (two guitars, harmonica, drums) band released three studio albums and played all venues in Beneluxa last three times. Here's the story behind their fourth album, Blues From Jupiter: In early 2021, venues and clubs were closed due to restrictions from the Covid pandemic. Belgian blues rock band Boogie Beasts were looking for alternatives to celebrate their ten-year anniversary. On March 6, they are live on Facebook from Studio Jupiter, where they recorded their second and third album but also owned by their sound engineer Koenraad Foesters. During the entire livestream, Boogie Beasts honored their roots and biggest influence: the blues. It resulted in an intense and energetic set of 11 covers that were received with great enthusiasm. The feedback was so enthusiastic that the idea arose to release this live session as an album.
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Juke Joint 500 is a brand-new label launched by Stag-O-Lee head honcho Reinhard Holstein dedicated to vinyl issues of classic releases from the CD age. Originally released in 1995 as mailorder-only CD on Glitterhouse Records, And Other Crimes is a fan favorite. Recorded in two days live at Coyote Records and produced by Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, the Philly four-piece Go To Blazes played a few of their own songs as well as tunes by Gordon Lightfoot, Kinky Friedman, Lou Reed, Lee Hazlewood, Gene Clark, Cary Hudson, Hank Williams, and others. All in a semi-acoustic mode. Color vinyl.
"After years of hard rocking, the band finally unplugged in 1995 with And Other Crimes, for the German Glitterhouse label. This live-in-the studio date is filled with smarter-than-bar-band covers, each one given a half-reverent, half-sneering spin. And if rollicking, slide-guitar-tinged treatments of Gene Clark's 'Out on the Side' or Kinky Friedman's 'Sold American' aren't twisted enough, check the downwardly mobile originals 'Got It Made' and 'Waste of Time' to hear just how closely the band's sense of rebellion mirrors that of anti-heroes Hank Williams Jr. and Lee Hazlewood." --Tom Moon (Rolling Stone/New York Times)
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