Blues Caravan Eric Johanson, Katarina Pejak, Alastair Green

• 1 Come On In My Kitchen 03:04
• 2 Jeremy's Boat 04:27
• 3 Notes On Boredom 04:09
• 4 Excuses 04:05
• 5 Money 04:34
• 6 Undertow 04:34
• 7 Familiar Sound 04:07
• 8 Galaxy Girl 03:57
• 9 Changes The Universe 06:19
• 10 Standing Out Loud 03:57
• 11 Only Do 02:51
• 12 Rusty Dagger 05:14
• 13 Am I To Blame? 04:35
• 14 I Walk On Guilded Splinters 11:07
• 15 Evil 05:49
• 16 One Way Out 06:26
• Total Runtime 01:19:15

Info for Blues Caravan

It is now 19 years ago since label founder Thomas Ruf first sent three musicians under contract to his record company on a joint tour as Blues Caravan: Sue Foley, Candye Kane and Ana Popovic. For the 2024 edition of this package tour, this job fell to Katarina Pejak, Eric Johanson and label newcomer Alastair Greene, who, as in previous years, were also supported by a two-piece rhythm section.

The performances followed the tried and tested pattern, i.e. after a joint opening, each of the three played their own set with songs from their respective repertoire, before they all gathered on stage again for the finale to round off the gig with another joint performance of songs such as Dr. John's voodoo anthem "I Walk On Guilded Splinters" or the Elmore James cover "One Way Out", which is an integral part of the Allman Brothers' live repertoire.

This was also the case in April 2024 at the Blues Garage in Isernhagen near Hanover, where the trio's performance was recorded.

While Pejak had already gained Blues Caravan experience in 2019, the participation of her colleagues in the tour was a first for both. And while her current release marks her second studio album with Ruf Records after 2019's "Roads That Cross", both Johanson's "The Deep And The Dirty" and Greene's "Standing Out Loud" are their label debut. And Pejak also differs stylistically from the two, because while she usually tends to cultivate softer tones, both Louisiana-born Johanson and California-born Greene, once Alan Parsons' tour guitarist among other things, prefer guitar sounds of a heavier kind, enriched with plenty of distortion. Examples of this on this concert recording include Johanson's powerfully grooving "Undertow" and Greene's riff-driven "Am I Too Blame?". It is not only on these tracks that both prove to be representatives of blues rock in which the emphasis is predominantly on the second syllable of the word.

Alastair Greene, guitar
Eric Johanson, guitar
Katarina Pejak, keyboards, vocals
Christin Neddens, drums
Tomek Germann, bass

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