19th Burnley National Blues Festival
Easter Weekend, April 7th-9th, 207
Friday night roared to life with the Son Henry Band at the wheel- a prime example of bar band blues with Son's lap steel really ringing out on "Can't be Satisfied", "Anywhere she lays her head (That's my home)", and (deep breath) Voodoo Chile which featured some blistering slide playing with a great distorted tone. What really lingered though was a great version of Sam Cooke's "A change is gonna come" where the rhythm section dropped down a gear to allow more space for the sounds Son coaxed out of his lap steel. His version put me in mind of guitar players usually associated with the British folk tradition, Martin Carthy or John Renborn, say. Bringing it back home, indeed. Go see them, they'll get your motor runnin'.
