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  • Registered: 2006-09-25
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Topic: Ollie Brown Thanks Tripsy

Hi Tripsy

Bought the OB CD on your recomendation and really like it. Different style to Joe but great blusey, quality stuff.
Could do without the Black Betty cover though. Rest is excellent. I'll certainly be looking to get to watch him live.


This album was actually reviewed briefly in one of the mainstream guitar mags last month and it got a good write up. But it would just have been another review really if it wasn't for the heads up from Tripsy.

How many more fantastic players are there out there that we never get to hear about unless someone like Tripsy alerts us ?



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  • Registered: 2008-02-14
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Re: Ollie Brown Thanks Tripsy

Hi Ges
I'm glad that you've discovered Oli (not Ollie sorry). I really like his album too, and he's a really nice guy if you ever get to meet him.

I'm not sure if Black Betty is needed too, and when I saw him live he played a great version of James Brown's Cold Sweat which I'd rather have heard on the album, but I really like the rest of the album.


A good chance to see Oli in your area would be Saturday 4th October. Oli is supporting Walter Trout at the Carling Academy Newcastle that evening, so that's two good guitarists for the price of one! I'm seeing both of them in Edinburgh two nights earlier and looking forward to it very much. Details here:

www.cannygigs.com/Walter%20TroutOct08.htm

Oli also got blues album of the month review in Classic Rock magazine this month (as Walter did last month)

"The recently formed Edinburgh Blues Club has identified an appetite for the personal communication between musicians and audience that the blues long ago perfected." The Herald Newspaper (Scotland)
http://www.edinburgh-blues.uk

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  • Registered: 2008-02-14
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Re: Ollie Brown Thanks Tripsy

Sorry, its North West not North East, duh. roll  I know he is playing Appelby beer and blues festival and some dates in Cumbria in September. Otherwise I'd check here:

http://www.oliselectricblues.co.uk/gigs.html

"The recently formed Edinburgh Blues Club has identified an appetite for the personal communication between musicians and audience that the blues long ago perfected." The Herald Newspaper (Scotland)
http://www.edinburgh-blues.uk