Sunday Morning Blues - Girls With Guitars

Samantha Fish / Cassie Taylor / Dani Wilde

Girls With Guitars

Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2011
Genre: Blues, Electric Blues

Ran across this while digging through the local record shops blues section looking for something interesting. Three female blues guitarist (well, one bassist), toss in a drummer and see if it smokes.

It's some pretty solid blues, from faster rock beats to slow blues rhythms. The album opens and closes with cover songs - Rollings Stones' Bitch and Paul Pena's Jet Airliner (made famous by the Steve Miller Band). That might be it's weak point. While the covers are solid covers, they're aren't totally new, relying on female vocals to give them a unique kick. Opening and closing like that makes it feel a bit contrived, like this is a promotion and not a group.

The middle though, with original penned tracks, feels like they should have come up with a single group name. It's a good collection of smokey blues tunes. The album doesn't have many rough edges though, it feels a little too slickly produced, more like a modern rock album than a blues one.

Still, if you need more guitar (and you do) and you like a female blues singer, this is a pretty good album to add to a collection.