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review by SomethingElse

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This is what SomethingElse wrote on our latest single with Boo Boo:

A couple of months ago I told y’all about this EP that vintage bluesman Boo Boo Davis put out with ElectroBluesSociety sensibly titled Chicago Blues Covers. This makeshift trio (Davis, guitarist Jan Mittendorp and drummer Jasper Mortier) made a mess of covers of electric blues standards charged by the retro-modern studio finagling of the ElectroBluesSociety and the sheer aura of one Boo Boo Davis. And they laid down the tracks for these songs all in one afternoon in 2018. Now we learn that their label KuvVer Records has dropped another track from apparently that same session, Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor.” Boo Boo’s rendition carries the same machismo as Wolf’s but aside from that, it sounds almost like a wholly different song. If anything, the analog-y, reverb-drenched sonics of this two year-old recording sounds even more ancient than the fifty-six year-old original and Mortier keeps the song lively with a booming backbeat. Davis voice echoes from the bottom his soul but his blues harp shouts louder and authoritatively. Even if you’ve heard this song a thousand times before, your experience with it isn’t complete without hearing ElectroBluesSociety and Boo Boo Davis tackle it. They give old blues back its youthful vitality because they know how to make it brash and raw.

new single with Boo Boo Davis

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today KuvVer Records released:

KR 616 – ElectroBluesSociety feat Boo Boo Davis – Killing Floor

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a new single recorded during a session that we did with Boo Boo Davis in 2018. Together we went back to the classic Chicago blues and afterwards we added a little electro. This time it is another Howlin Wolf classic.

The track is available on all digital platforms.

 

 

review from the UK

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ElectroBluesSociety Featuring Michel Peters—Hoochie Coochie Man

Here is another single track from this Dutch outfit, with a local singer turning in a version of the Muddy Waters classic. Some of these issues on Black & Tan subsidiary label KuvVer have kept reasonably close to the originals – this one doesn’t. The throbbing, up tempo backing is largely electronic, though with pounding drums and some excellent blues guitar, whilst Michel’s singing is fine. The whole thing does actually work well, so, if you have a youngster who feels that the blues is old hat, try to get them to give this a listen – you never know…

new single with Boo Boo Davis

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today KuvVer Records released our new single

KR 611 – Back Door Man – ElectroBluesSociety feat Boo Boo Davis

This is the seventh track from the recording session that we did with Mississippi blues man Boo Boo Davis. Together we went back to the classic Chicago blues and here is another Howlin Wolf classic with a little ‘electrofication’. The tracks is available on all the digital platforms like: