Them Bones You Asked For It! (2004)

This summer sees the release of The Green Knight, David Lowery’s take on the 14th century poem ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ on A24. The film sees Lowery once again team up with Daniel Hart, the composer who scored Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon and A Ghost Story, and the resulting soundtrack is every bit as evocative and ambitious as the movie itself. The Green Knight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is being released via Milan Records on the same day as the theatrical release.

This is Chris Daniels & The Kings 15 album, and our second with Freddi Gowdy. As we’ve toured blues festivals over the US and Europe I’ve noticed that the old tradition of horns is disappearing. At a blues & brews in Greeley I met one young blues-fan who’d been standing and staring at us. He came up after our set and asked me why I called our music ‘funky blues’ – a name festivals and European fans use to describe our music. He was a traditionalist and thought blues was 12-bars, guitar and maybe harp, but not sax, trumpet and horns. I gave him my email and suggested he listen to Bobby Blue Bland, Johnny Taylor, Albert King, Walter Wolf Man Washington, Gatemouth Brown and a host of incredible artists who’s use of horns is as essential to their music as a guitar is to Sonny Landreth.