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Boyd Small
Four + One

Album NL 2003 on Coolbuzz Records label
Blues (Boogie Woogie, Chicago Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues)

Four + One (Coolbuzz, 2003) Boyd Small Four plus One is the latest project of American born Amsterdam based singer/drummer/songwriter Boyd Small. Put great singers who are also songwriters together in a room and you'd expect to get something where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts: Boyd Small "Four Plus One" ! This beautiful blues album to spin on a sultry summernight contains all American roots music. The combination of superb orginals and covers that the band made their own leads to an inimitable mix. From J. J. Mallone's "Daddy Rollin' Stone" through Marc Thijs' "Easy Bait" to Boyd's "The Big Man's Eyes" the underlying message is the same - Blues - or what it ought to be these days. His new blues album would be perfect for a sultry summer night. It features four great singers and musicians who team up to make the whole of the band greater than the sum of it's parts: Four Plus One! On "Four plus One" CD three other great musicians join Boyd. Guitarplayer/singer Marc Thijs hails from Belgium where he is known as frontman of the Electric Kings and TEE. He is a living legend in the Belgian blues scene and recently toured with James Harman and Johnny Dyer. Dutchman Jasper Mortier layed down the bottom end for such blues greats as Philip Walker, Eddy Clearwater, Boo Boo Davis and Monti Amundson and was a bandmember of the Boyd Small band and Sugarcane. The New York harp virtuoso and natural born singer G.V. Reit can only be described as "Mr. Right."

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