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Little G. Weevil—If I May—Independent Release

This is Little G’s first album since the Covid epidemic and although
he has been based in America since 2004, he returned to the
Sounday Studios in his home city of Budapest, Hungary to record
this album.

On the ten original compositions, Little G. takes lead guitars and
vocals, with Jambalaya; piano, K.C. Brown; harmonica, Csaba
Pengo; upright bass and Tom Kiss; drums.

The crisp, clean clarity of his guitar work matches his invitingly
crisp raw vocals and is evident on the opener ‘Yoga Girl (Hold Me
Close)’, with raw pounding percussion, rolling piano, sharp
harmonica and vocals. The infectious ‘Spy Balloon Blues’ contains a splendid rolling New Orleans
piano feel, with a satisfying lazy harmonica in tow.

On ‘One Last Time’, the wheezy harmonica melds easily with an ominous piano and sparring
guitar. Whilst ‘Scam Me, Scam Me Not’, is a fine walking blues. The rolling ‘Doctor Hay’, possesses
a refreshing Chicago guitar swing.

‘Tribal Affairs’ combines inviting stunningly hypnotic electric Hill Country guitar with an enticing
pulsating tribal percussion splendid!

The gentle lazy rumba piano on ‘Gold Mine’ underpins a tale of African precious metals and gems
exploitation with an unexpected exploding and bursting piano solo as an intermission.

The rousing piano and harmonica swinging on ‘Tingalingaling (Everybody’s Qualified)’, deals
with today’s so-called “know-it-all” education system and attitude, while the slow blues of ‘We
Don’t Learn Much’, delivers a tight stinging guitar and gently rolling paced piano.

The low-key guitar and tribal percussion driving ‘I Know Many Ways To Prove My Love’, delivers
a fine walking-blues homage to Willie Dixon’s ‘29 Ways’.

Recommended!
Brian Harman

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Grow Vision

This California-based Anglo-American band are a popular tour-
ing act in both the USA and the UK. This is their third album and
it keeps up the high standard of its predecessors.

It opens with a bang – the outrageously rocking ‘Oh Yeah’, with
Greta Valenti’s vocals rampant over the huge-sounding backing,
and Robin Davey gets in a nifty guitar solo too. The energy level
stays close to off the scale with the raw grind of ‘Wild Woman’,
and the album’s first single, ‘Satisfy Your Queen’ is a kind of
mutated pop number, at least in places. It’s brash, loud and noisy… oh and very blues-rock-y
too.

So the stage is set, as the band mixes up all kinds of rootsy styles, some with a healthy blues or
soul element, and always sounding rather individual. They have their own style whatever the