A1Blues.Com » 147 – Chris Bell & 100% Blues

This week hear Chris Bell talk about his brand new CD Devil, My Guitar & Me.

If you’ve been listening to this show for awhile you know about the last show I did with Chris on his CD Real Bluesman. This time around Chris goes from blues to more blues rock and it works good for him. All but one of the 14 songs are Chris Bell originals. The exception is an old Allman Brothers song “It’s Not My Cross To Bear” which Chris does a nice job on. Songs like “Sweet Josephine”, “Devil, My Guitar & Me”, and many others are good blues-rockers. The song “My Jimi Hendrix Stuff” stands out with its cool lyrics. Chris took the titles of a bunch of Hendrix songs to make the lyrics for this song. It’s fun to listen to and pick out the song titles while still following the present story line.

Chris is also a huge John Lee Hooker fan. He tells us about the time he got to meet John Lee Hooker which is the inspiration for Chris’ song titled “John Lee Hooker (Told Me So)”. The last track, “Don’t Wake Me Up”, breaks out a sax player that gives a nice change of sound. Chris Bell is the lead vocalist and plays electric, acoustic, slide, dobro and any other guitar as well as bass guitar on six tracks. Chuck England is the bass guitarist and Bill Nuti plays drums.

Chris Bell & 100% Blues will be on tour all this summer so be sure to check their MySpace page for tour dates. There are some great photos of Chris with other blues artists at his MySpace page too. You really should check it out.