Somhelgisfel

Joe Richardson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 30, 2010)
• Original Release Date: June 4, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Viewpoint Records
• ASIN: B00006GF29
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #522,051 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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About the Artist

Joe Richardson was born in Southern Louisianas Atchafalaya River Delta, pickin' and playin' has been a way of life from an early age. At the age of six his granpa gave him a guitar from a pawn shop and he taught himself to play. Gaining experience from musical legends of the locale has allowed him to develop a style consistent with his background. Submerging himself totally in his music is what drives and has driven his very existence for as long as he can remember. A versitile veteran, he also plays fiddle and steel guitar.

Kevin Phelan, born in Levelland, Texas where they dance in circles in the roadhouses, which attract extra terrestrials, who taught Kevin to play at an early age. Over the years he's been schooled in the classics at Southwest Texas State University, spanked by James Polk in his Little Big Band, and sanctified through five years of Sundays jamming at Ted Hall's Blues Church. After a very successful period of composing music for computer games with The Fat Man, Kevin returned to the scene to join up with Joe Richardson.

Richard Lamm is the most recent addition to the JRE. Born in Austin, Texas, he has been playing professionally for 15 years and has toured in 24 different countries. Still living in beautiful Austin, he is a drum instructor and the missing link for the Joe Richardson Express.

Product Description

Somhelgisfel by The Joe Richardson Express

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars yummm, March 26, 2004

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"devils26" (austin, tx United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Somhelgisfel (Audio CD)

every now & then in a drunken haze I find myself stumbling to the door of Joe's Generic on 6th st Austin & askin "Is Joe Richardson Playin" --this hole in the wall no cover all beer bar is blues heaven when our white haired guitar god and his gang are jammin & thats when this drunk & many others are treated to some beautiful - beautiful music (sumthin I'll dearly miss after movin back to India). this is one of my favourite cd's to drive to & should be part of every music blues lovers collection -- some of the best stuff on this cd is black sheep, feelin like the dead , trouble and the epic mother rain. its hard to review a cd for someone like the express cause after you've seen em play live listenin to their music again is like a high where u loose track of time & self & drown in the waves comin from his guitar, but for those who can't see em live pop in this cd -roll up that joint & slowly loose yourself to their music

5.0 out of 5 stars Full-moon frightening blues!!, November 6, 2003

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Mitchell Lopate (Adak, Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Somhelgisfel (Audio CD)

Keep the doors and windows unlocked when you hear this--a handy exit is the best thing for survival instincts when you feel your flesh crawl. This is what a Rottweiler would sound like if it could play music, and Joe looks like that evil wizard Saruman in "Lord of the Rings." If you want to conjure up some powerful spirits, don't expect anything that will be easy to handle when the Express summons them-or else. This is primal, raging, and aboriginal in nature, and if you find the hair standing up on the back of your neck, just be glad your head is still attached to feel it. Joe and his buddies can crack your back as well, just trying to move to those on-the-torture-rack rhythms. Lenny Kravitz gets a thumbs-up for "The Gospel," and Jimi and Stevie Ray sent "Cry" and "Mother Rain" down from the Heaven's Hall of Guitar Heroes. Watch out for the "Black Sheep of the Blues": you're gonna be the one who gets skinned for your hide. Not safe yet? There's a touch of dobro mojo when you reach "Virginia," but "Witch Cat" will boil you alive in a Louisiana bayou cauldron with a voodoo chant. Dig this--J.S. Bach gets soul too: Joe blows a "Mass in Delta Minor" on harmonica. Salvation comes with the morning light, and pray for mercy.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Medicine Man Is Back!, September 21, 2002

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dc777 (Austin, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Somhelgisfel (Audio CD)

Somhelgisfel (pronounced: some-hell-just-fell) is a stong follow up to their debut release. This set offers guitar driven blues like "Black Sheep of the Blues" and "Trouble" as well as several acoustic tracks like "Golden Idol" and "Somhelgisfel"...and there's even a rap track called "The Gospel". I particulary like "Cry", it's very SRV as well as "Mother Rain". Electric or unplugged, Joe Richardson is probably the best bluesman to grace the streets of Austin since Stevie Ray Vaughan.