It's a long story ....
Initially, this is a kid who listens to ZZ Top in 70's and playing an imaginary guitar ...
He grew up with this type of sounds in his head.
JJCale, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Elmore James and Homesick James with their bottle necks arrived to his ears.
And then he began composing his music, heavy combining natural Dobro slides and sounds borrowed from Marshall amps of the 80's on an old Fender Strat of the fifties ...
His idea is to say further develop the music "blues" with modern guitar tones.
SRV appeared, and, like him, could not find a singer so he decided to sing himself ...
Mezcaleros is a group of ordinary people ... that makes the blues rock for everyone, regardless of age or race.
This project has been launched a few month ago by a guitar player, passionated by Blues and Southern Rock named Philippe Marseille AKA Phil Mezcal, a French guy from the south (yank !) of France, he used to go really often to the United States and particularly in the Deep south...
The first CD is released now.
ROAD TO TEXAS...
49 minutes of travel...Start from Florida, through the Bayou (Cajun river), reach Albuquerque (Hasta la vista), New Mexico (Eldorado) and ends at the Mexican border after stopping in Texas ...
Mezcaleros is full of Southern rock.
The strikes are heavy and the duo bass / drums acts here like a train that can't stop ...
Come the sharp guitar riffs, Phil plays a 1957 Fender Stratocaster with 1959 Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates ... which explains the slightly crunchy blues sounds ... Marshall amps bringing grain and rock punch ...
Mixed with the sounds of the Dobro guitar (Cajun river, My life is burning, Gotta go) electric guitars got a different color ... more "Texan".
Eldorado will take you to New Mexico, a heavy riff mixed with Spanish guitar.
The Fox is a song that will remind you of the influences of ZZ Top ... A song "Texas handmade" ...
The duo slide / voice Breakdown limousine, the last piece "hot sound" before Little Jimmy, acoustic, very traditional and composed in memory of soldiers killed in Iraq ...
Made in Paris, mixed and mastered at ToneHouse Universal Music France.
In October 2011.
Happy trip with Mezcaleros ... |
