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Man’ which also featured on that earlier record but Fleetwood Mac’s slow blues ‘Love That Burns’

is new and at 12 minutes really gives the guitarists a chance to stretch out.

‘Shoe On the Other Foot’ is funky and ‘Done Lost Your Good Thing Now’ is another slow blues. The
ensemble finish off with a nod to Jon’s old band with a rocking cover of The Hoax’s ‘Fistful of Dirt’.
This is fairly standard British blues/pub rock, I’m sure it was great if you were at the gig with a
few drinks inside you but not sure it really holds up on record.

Graham Harrison

Şenel Karatepe—Hard Times—Black and Tan Records/Bone Union
Records BUR 1110

Bone Union Records and Black and Tan are to be thanked for
their commitment to bringing to attention some of the great
music that comes out of Turkey. Founded in June 2020 by Sarp

Keskiner (Turkey) and Jan Mittendorp (Netherlands) in order to
create a ground for mutual cultural exchange, Bone Union
Records aims to document a neglected musical scene in Turkey
not just by releasing archival material from mid-90’s to this date;
but also by releasing brand new material from Turkish artists.
This is one of the latter.

Born and based since 2017 in Lüleburgaz (a small city, near the Bulgarian Turkish border) Karatepe
has developed a smooth style covering the work of blues masters, but without sticking slavishly to
their arrangements. He is an interpreter not a revivalist. There is music from Robert Johnson
(’Stones In My Passway’, ‘Travelling Riverside Blues’, ‘Rambling On My Mind’) and songs by Muddy
Waters, Charles Brown, Big Bill Broonzy and Ray Charles. They are delivered with skill and
panache.

What is missing though is any insight into Karatepe’s own music. One or two originals would help
immensely in judging the overall impact of what otherwise is modest tribute, not compelling
originality.

Ian K. McKenzie

Garth Hudson and Various—Garth Hudson Presents a Canadian
Celebration of the Band—Curve Music.

What a surprise this record is! There’s very little blues here but
some seriously good rock and blues rock originally from the band
known as The Band.

Garth Hudson has put together a selection of 18 tracks —+2 bonus
tracks on some editions— of his favourite music from the band
that for a while was known as Bob Dylan‘s band.

It must be said this album was first issued in 2010 and is reissued

here as a celebration of its more than 10 year existence.