Year : 2023
Style : Hard Rock , Blues Rock , Guitar instrumentals
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 101 mb
Bio:
You can't teach the blues. It's not something that can be codified in music books or learned on YouTube. It goes much deeper than that and it comes from the inside. It's about the way the guitar strings are bent and the sound gets transmuted directly from a player's soul. It's simple at the end of the day. Either you've got it, or you don't. JARED JAMES NICHOLS has definitely got it. The Wisconsin-born, Los Angeles-based singer, writer and guitarist's new EP Old Glory & The Wild Revival channels blues grit and gusto through bombastic arena-size rock 'n' roll. It's raw, raucous and righteously real. As soon as he got his first guitar at 14-years-old, the stage immediately called to Jared. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that he grew up minutes away from The Alpine Valley Resort—where Stevie Ray Vaughan performed his last show. However, no divine coincidence could truly foreshadow just how adept at the six-string he would eventually become. He personally traces the beginning of his story back to a blues jam that his mother brought him to. "Two weeks after I got an electric guitar, I was on stage with all of these old cats from Chicago playing the blues," he recalls with a smile. "The music immediately resonated with me. It was all about the feeling and the soul behind it. None of these guys were music nerds. They were true blues guys playing what they felt. That power and reality struck a chord in me." Soon, he found himself practicing for twelve hours every day. Hitting up the local jams, he ended up sharing the stage with legends including Buddy Guy, "Honeyboy" Edwards, and "Big Jim" Johnson as well as opening for Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Derek Trucks. By his 21st birthday, he had logged over 500 gigs. After a short stint at Berklee School of Music in Boston, he headed out to Los Angeles where he garnered numerous accolades at the world-renowned Musicians Institute, winning the 2010 Jerry Horton guitar contest, the 2011 Les Paul tribute contest, and the 2011 "Outstanding Guitarist" award. 2012 saw him release his debut EP, Live at the Viper Room, gaining the notice of both Guitar World and Guitar Player and inking a deal with Sony/MTV's Hype Music Publishing. However, everything simply laid the groundwork for Old Glory & The Wild Revival. Teaming up with Aerosmith engineer Warren Huart, Jared began working on the five-song set in early 2013. Honing his voice as a guitarist, songs like the first single "Let It Go" speak through a delta-style soul with the right amount of rock bravado. "That one is a blues rock song about love and give and take," he reveals. "It's got its own style and it opens the door to what I'm doing". Elsewhere on the EP, "Blackfoot" charges forward with a riff as sharp as a tomahawk and a whole lot of spirit punctuated by Jessica Childress of The Voice's backing harmonies. "In Wisconsin, I was surrounded by Indian reservations and culture," he continues. "I'd do casino and reservation tours as a kid. When I wrote the song, I was reading about all of these badass tribes. I love that spirit and vibe inherent in Native American culture. The Blackfoot were truly bad motherfuckers. That lick is what I feel their culture represented." On stage, it truly comes to life. Jared's presence becomes amplified with guitar in hand. Audiences have experienced that everywhere from his performances at NAMM and SXSW to the iconic Sturgis Buffalo Chip Festival where he will play alongside ZZ Top and Kid Rock and the Harley-Davidson 110th Anniversary in Milwaukee this summer. Ultimately, he lives up to that idea of Revival in the EP's title. "I want people to get excited," he concludes. "I want them to feel like anything is possible in this music. I want them to know great blues rock exists. If I can give someone the same inspiration I was blessed with, I've done something right."
Album:
After years of blood, sweat and bluespower I am beyond thrilled to announce my upcoming full length record! Note for note and line for line I poured my heart into this collection of songs. Recorded live to tape with an appetite to rock, I am so proud of this beast of an album.It’s a good start to a new year (Happy New Year folks) when your first review is for a new album by a blues rock guitarist you’ve been following for a few years.That guitarist is Jared James Nichols, who returns with a self titled new album via Black Hill Records. With it being nearly six years since his last album, ‘Black Magic‘, I was intrigued to hear if there was going to be any sort of change to his characteristic sound.The answer is yes & no. The no means his recognisable sound and style remains, the yes is that the production has certainly improved. Not that his previous releases have sounded bad, but to my lugholes the sound is crisper, with a wider soundstage which is exactly what’s needed for Jared’s style of blues rock, Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan, Slash, Rival Sons) has certainly worked his magic, producing, engineering, and mixing this album.This is not laid back, tobacco spitting time. This is frenetic, fast paced, attention grabbing music, for those of you who’ve seen him play live will know exactly what I mean. The energy Jared exudes from those live performances is always going to be difficult to reproduce in a recorded format, but here you have an album that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and leans into your face to enquire if you’re ready to party!Without a doubt, one of the tracks I heard ahead of the album, the energetic ‘Hard Wired‘, which came about after a jam session with fellow guitarists Tyler Bryant and Graham Whitford, is one of my favourites from the album, as is the raucous ‘Hallelujah‘, which won’t fit some blues rock fans ‘genre mould’, but is right on the money for me being someone who much prefers the dirty end of the whole blues rock thing.While I certainly enjoyed ‘Jared James Nichols‘ on the first couple of listens, it was with repeated listening that the album took on it’s true form. There is such a maturity and sense of growth to the song writing and playing, hopefully this album will help propel Jared to the next level or higher.Highly recommended.
Line-Up:
Jared James Nichols - vocals, guitar
Erik Sandin - bass, vocals
Dennis Holm - drums
Tracklist:
01. My Delusion
02. Easy Come, Easy Go
03. Down the Drain
04. Hard Wired
05. Bad Roots
06. Skin ‘n Bone
07. Long Way Home
08. Shadow Dancer
09. Good Time Girl
10. Hallelujah
11. Saint or Fool
12. Out of Time
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