Review
"Electrifying Exceptional musicianship, witty songwriting, and a unique sound rooted in blues." --blues revue magazine
"Blood & Treasure takes rhythm & blues back home. Paul Mark and his trusty band absolutely nail it with playing that's distinctive and gritty a positive musical encyclopedia of roots music that sounds and feels contemporary yet somehow sounds from another era quite an album." --Toxic Pete, U.K.
A great disk Blood & Treasure is an early favorite for a year ending Best of 2009 column. I highly encourage multiple purchases of the record.. --boston blues society
Product Description
The beat goes on Blood & Treasure is the highly-anticipated follow-up to Mark s celebrated 2006 release Trick Fiction. Barroom tested and road-weary tuff, the band weaves stellar songwriting and a smashing live band sound with blithe disregard for the tepid conformity of today s corporate music playlists. The new release builds on Paul Mark s word-of-mouth legacy with a live, no-holds-barred roots rock sound. This is emotional, thinking-person s music that overlays a contemporary singer/songwriter sensibility on to the Americana legacy of blues, soul and raucous rock n roll.
Cut in Memphis, Tennessee at legendary Ardent Studios, Blood & Treasure was co-produced by Paul Mark and Jeff Powell (Big Star, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Afghan Whigs, B.B. King, The Bottle Rockets). This is Mark s seventh CD on the NYC-based indie label Radiation Records