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Black (bass). Lacy is up first with ‘You Better Be Sure’ it’s a nice easy rolling song

featuring Sunnyland’s piano and with a restrained but on the ball guitar solo from
Lacy, ‘Easy Woman’ is a slow blues and then things hot up for ‘Whop That Thing
Around Me’. ‘Black Jack’ is a slow blues about gambling and the final Lacy track is an

instrumental ‘C.B. Blues’.

Joe Carter is up next with ‘I’m Worried’, he’s a slide guitarist in the Elmore James
mould and like Elmore he also has a big voice which he demonstrates on the slow

blues ‘Anna Lou Blues’. He also tackles two blues classics in ‘Sweet Home Chicago’
and ‘Stormy Monday’ and both are OK without being outstanding.

I hadn’t heard these two players before but both are OK - you can imagine really

enjoying them live in a club in Chicago - and in truth there isn’t a great difference
between them and some of their more famous contemporaries so perhaps they just
didn’t get the breaks.

Graham Harrison

Kirris Riviere and the Delta du Bruit—Kirris Riviere

and the Delta du Bruit—Independent

The band from Bristol kick off with ‘Left Me in the Cold’ a
blues shuffle with chugging percussion, subtle guitars,

keyboards and sax, while ‘I just Can’t Be Satisfied’ is a
rather routine version of the old Muddy Waters song

with plinky-plonky keyboards. The band are Kirris (vo-
cals), Evan Newman (keyboards), Alistair Toms (guitars),
Bryan Jones (bass) and Pete Warner (drums). ‘The Delta
du Bruit’ is a moody blues with nice harp from guest

Henry Slim who also plays on ‘I Ain’t Got Time’ and ‘Take It to the Top’ is a mid-
tempo soul song.

‘Down to the Border’ is a cool jazzy shuffle with backing vocals and Slim is back to

play harp on a swinging version of Willie Dixon’s ‘I’m Ready’ and the jump blues
‘Have Mercy Baby’ is a version of the old 50s Billy Ward and the Dominoes number.

‘No Fuss Bus’ is a jazzy song with Hammond organ and sax from Andrew Neil Hayes
and ‘Cold Feet’ is a 12-bar with humorous lyrics and we finish with ‘Louisiana’ a
too-short laid-back song with an unusual groove and some nice breathy sax. I found

this an interesting debut album with good playing from the band and with Kirris’s
vocals adding a touch of authenticity. The album also features guest appearances
from other South West musicians including ex-Hoax guitarist Jon Amor and Joe

Wilkins from the Elles Bailey band and it was recorded in Bristol’s Dusk Art Studios.

Graham Harrison