Jared James Nichols - Old Glory & The Wild Revival (2014)

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Jared James Nichols - Old Glory & The Wild Revival (2014)

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Jared James Nichols - Old Glory & The Wild Revival (2014)

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Year : 2014
Style : Blues Rock , Guitar instrumentals
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 161 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:

When I’m not working hard at Rock n Reel mansions I like to take little road trips with the family, but more often than not we can never decide on which album to listen to that will satisfy all of us. Whilst I’m happy to sit back n chill to the latest offering from Cannibal Corpse or Meshuggah, my wife and daughter aren’t so keen. Weirdo’s. Now thanks to the latest release from Jared James Nichols, we can all travel under the same roof.If I’m completely honest, the opening track Playin’ For Keeps didn’t really do much for me. Sure, it had some good ideas but it failed to really wow me. There’s no denying that Nichols shows off his playing competence with ease, but it just passed me by without really making any impact. All that was laid to rest though, as the slow brooding blues licks of Let You Go kicks in my mind was almost instantly changed. This track has the riffs, the catchy chorus and most of all, it has soul. Bucket loads of it.Can You Feel It? is next and the pace has noticeably increased with a foot-tapping bluesy shuffle. Nichols owns it vocally and if by the end of this track you’re not singing along, then you must be dead inside. Now Or Never is a stripped-back raw blues affair, consisting of nothing much more than Nichols, an acoustic guitar and a bass-drum/hi-hat keeping time. It works amazingly and really gives the album an authentic old time blues feel.This album continues to deliver an abundance of soulful blues soaked riffage on each track, with the production balancing the mix of instrumentation flawlessly. Jared James Nichols really nails the raspy blues vocal, it doesn’t sound forced or misplaced at any time throughout the album. The variety of tempos and contrast of rockier/ballad tracks really keeps the listener drawn in for its entirety and that’s where I feel a lot of blues albums usually suffer, they just become about how technical the guitar playing can be instead of giving the listener an assortment of varied textures to enjoy.As far as blues albums go, this is a very strong release and only let down slightly by a couple of weaker tracks nearer the end of the album. Whilst the cover version of Robert Johnsons Come On In My Kitchen was a good choice to close the album, I think the Keb Mo version is a little more poignant. That aside, this is a top-notch release and Jared James Nichols has some serious song-writing skills to offer. If you’re a fan of skilled blues playing and songs with plenty of substance then check this one out.

Line-Up:

Jared James Nichols (vocals, guitars)
Erik Sandin (bass)
Dennis Holm (drums)

Tracklist:

01. Playing For Keeps (5:33)
02. Let You Go (4:19)
03. Can You Feel It? (3:33)
04. Now Or Never (3:05)
05. All Your Pain (3:32)
06. Get Down (2:21)
07. Sometimes... (5:18)
08. Blackfoot (4:24)
09. Take My Hand (5:15)
10. Come On In My Kitchen (2:36)

+ Video "Never My Life" (Live Video)


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