On “Holler And Stomp,” the Kings' Blind Pig label debut (set for release in Oct. 2011), they’ve put together a batch of songs that capture the various byways where traditional ‘blues’ and ‘country’ music intersect. They cover Ray Sharpe (dubbed in his heyday as “the greatest white-sounding blac...k dude ever”) with his own style of rockin’ bluesa-billy (“Oh My Baby’s Gone”) and Hank Williams Sr. singing about the ‘blues’ (“Blues Come Around”). They take a swipe at a country fried number (“Off The Hook”) by a group of Brits who named themselves after a Muddy Waters’ blues song (the Rolling Stones) and also lay down their own version of a ‘country blues’ song that Muddy brought with him to Chicago and recorded with a new urban electric sound for Chess studios in 1948 (“Feel Like Going Home”). The rest of the originals and covers on this album have these same underpinnings, thematically and/or musically, making “Holler And Stomp” one of the freshest and most distinctive blues records in recent memory.-Blind Pig Press Release
