Riotous Brothers

This is one of many great reviews of their latest album - we play it loads - it's true! Their live performances are rollicking rock 'n' roll.

The third album by The Riotous Brothers, The Tree, starts like a feeling of pure exhilaration and ends up with you wanting to weep for all the right reasons and take each song to your heart. If an album can really take you to places that you cannot go to in your physical life then this is the same sensation you might get when you read Wuthering Heights, Far from The Madding Crowd, Moby Dick or Edward Rutherford’s Sarum for the first time in the quiet slumber of deep forest surrounded by the dying embers of a perfect summer’s day.

This new original set of songs from Mash Sonnet, Paul Long, Matt Lake and Dirk Maggs is illuminating, it asks gently for attention and gets it in droves, there is no need to shout, holler, exclaim wildly that it is a good record. It knows; it fully understands how the listener is going to feel once the music stops and will be there to greet them with the largest hug possible. The Tree that sits in the middle of the deep forest, the Blues family ever growing, ever tantalising, has found a branch so lush, so brimming with delicate bounty that it might just knock anything that the great Joe Bonamassa or Joanne Shaw Taylor can bring along to the Blues Jungle this year.