Steve Dawson

Jim Byrnes - Everywhere West (2010)
MP3 320 kbps | 51 min 26 sec | 112.85 Mb
Label: Black Hen Music | Genre: Blues

Jim Byrnes' fourth album for Black Hen Music, finds him collaborating once again with producer Steve Dawson. Jim and Steve have worked together on all of his award- winning albums in the last decade. This is Jim's bluesiest album in years. Everywhere West includes raw and stripped-down takes on classic material and some originals. While Jim has been focusing on gospel-oriented blues for his last 2 albums (the Juno Award-winning House of Refuge and 2008's My Walking Stick), Everywhere West brings him back to the music of his youth, with some of the greatest performances of his career on songs by Jimmy Reed, Lowell Folsom, The Mississippi Sheiks, Tampa Red and many more. Everywhere West was recorded live off the floor with minimal overdubs.

Breaking away from SAXON in 1994, guitarist GRAHAM OLIVER reunited with another SAXON founder member in bassist Steve Dawson to form SON OF A BITCH. The name was actually taken with a purpose as it was the original pre-recording name of SAXON. Additional recruits to the band were former SAXON and MOTÖRHEAD drummer Pete Gill and American frontman Ted Bullet, previously with THUNDERHEAD.

Anticipation was quite high when it was announced in 1984 that Paul Rodgers, the past voice of Bad Company, and Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin's former guitarist, were creating a "supergroup" called the Firm. Page and Rodgers had first tinkered with the idea of an album after their successful collaboration on the ARMS benefit tour for Ronnie Lane in 1983. Based upon the fact that it had been over five years since Page's last band effort, and two years since Rodger's lackluster finale with the original Bad Company, pundits were more than eager to hear what new material the duo would unleash. However, when the band's self-titled debut was actually released in 1985, it received a critical drubbing and was all but ignored by the record-buying public.