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BiTS: Okay, yes, I know who you're talking about now. I didn't catch the name when

you first said it.

WW: Russell Carr.

BiTS: Yes, right. Okay. And tell me something about the tracks. How many tracks on

the album?

WW: So there’s just ten tracks.

BiTS: Are there any oldies or is it all new

stuff?

WW: They're all original, but they are all
kind of in the traditional blues style, as far

as the songwriting goes. Yeah, they're
mostly some form of a 12-bar. There's a
song called ‘Trouble Of That Girl’, I took

an old traditional gospel spiritual song,
what's the original called? I'm trying to
think now. It’s called ‘Trouble Of This

World’ [chuckles], and it’s kind of like Ray
Charles or Sam Cooke used to do. I sort of
changed some lyrics in it to make it about

a girl instead of about God, and we kind of
gave it a dirty blues groove. Kind of Gary
Clark Jr, Samantha Fish kind of a guitar

groove. Fox it up a little bit and that.

BiTS: Sounds like it might be one of your
favourite tracks on the album.

WW: Well, it's the next single that's
coming out this month [laughs], so it's on my mind a lot at the moment. Yeah, but it
is one of my favourite tracks. It's one of the most up-tempo ones.

BiTS: Do you have a favourite track?

WW: Tough one. Hmm. I really like ‘Blues Is Still Alive’ with Walter Trout. With that

one I just wanted to write a song about the blues basically, which is something that
the Gary Moore used to do a lot with songs like ‘Story Of The Blues’, or ‘Still Got The
Blues’, ‘Midnight Blues’, things like that. So that song is kind of my homage to the
blues, if you like. I don't know what my favourite song is, to be honest. I quite like

‘Wild Man’, which was just a bit of fun, really, lyrically. It's just like a straight up shuffle,
but it's a really good shuffle.

BiTS: You're making me quite excited. I really want to hear some of this music now.