Kelly Zirbes met Texas guitarist and sound engineer Perry Robertson in 1996, who produced the live album called Kelly\u2019s Lot \u2013 Live At The Troubador<\/i> and subsequently joined Zirbes in as a co-writer and guitar player in the band Kelly\u2019s Lot.<\/p>\n
The band has recorded and released 16 albums ranging from electric and acoustic to Americana and blues, and in July 2024 Kelly\u2019s Lot released The Blues Remind Me<\/i>, their third straight blues album. The album was mixed by Robertson and features Mike Sauer on drums, Matt McFadden bass guitar, with Mo Beeks on keyboards and occasional vocals. Saxophone player Bill Johnston played and arranged the horn parts with saxophonist Paulie Cerra and Didier Reyes, Chip Tingle, Aviva Maloney and Tomislav Goluban special guest on harmonica. The songs are all original, recorded and performed with precision. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The album delivers 10 songs of varied blues moods from the early Santana- and Malo-inspired \u201cJust Tell Me The Truth,\u201d packed with elegant horn architecture, to the Texas swing of \u201cBoogie Bus\u201d and the J.B. Lenoir flavored \u201cLove and Understanding.\u201d From slow and dramatic to the faster, swinging tracks, this album covers all the bases. Zirbes lets go on the up-tempo \u201cAces,\u201d but the most interesting song, and furthest outlier in blues styles, is the fifth track. \u201cMan In The Moon\u201d opens with \u201950s noir trumpet, hushed vocals and an acoustic bass solo, finishing beautifully with a cool blue trumpet solo\u2019s incomplete cadence. The horns have been imaginatively orchestrated throughout the album, and the rhythm section is concise and stays inside the compositions without getting too fancy, the vocals are spot on. A little more chaos might have enlivened the album, but for the majority of the blues listening audience the mixing and production for The Blues Remind Me<\/i> is perfect. <\/p>\n
Kelly\u2019s Lot have been playing and touring regularly in California, Texas, Missouri, Croatia and France, and are headed to Europe in the summer of 2024, booked to play the Howth Roots & Blues Fetsival in Ireland and the Jerry Ricks Blues Festival in Croatia, returning to the United States to play The Tall City Blues Festival in Midland, Texas on September 21st. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":35059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10647],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-46936","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-kellys-lot","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46936"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}