New Release: Will Jacobs - Goldfish Blues

New Release:  Will Jacobs - Goldfish Blues

Will Jacobs - Goldfish Blues
Release: 25.11.2022
Format: CD
Label: Ruf Records GmbH | EAN: 0710347130024

“It's amazing where your instrument will take you,” reflects Will Jacobs – and when the acclaimed 29-year-old bandleader looks back up the tracks from latest album, Goldfish Blues, his backstory feels like a wheelspinning road movie.Whether backing up the blues-club veterans of his native Chicago, turning heads at 2009’s Memphis International Blues Showcase, working as a first-call Windy City gun-for-hire or touring with Zydeco talisman C.J. Chenier, Jacobs is the international roots scene’s fastest mover and hottest tip.

So it’s apt that his latest release, Goldfish Blues, was tracked in one whip-cracking, blue-sky-thinking burst at Berlin’s Big D Studio. “We had a week,” he remembers. “In comparison to most albums, it’s a short time. But I’ll always have that image of us all being in one room together, and you’ll definitely hear that come out in the music.”
As renowned for his writing as his burnt-honey voice and stinger guitar, Jacobs brought the best songs of his career to Berlin. From the irresistibly lazy roll of Katie’s Blues to the frayed strut of Dirty Dog, via the jazzy swirl of I Wish and the no-explanation-needed Funky Woman, these tracks nod to vintage traditions but are tooled for modern listeners. “Love, anger, money, happiness, being naïve,” he explains. “These are some of the things you'll hear about in the album. But you'll have to listen yourself to find out the rest.”
Likewise, while Goldfish Blues keeps one foot in that titular genre, Jacobs shakes off prescriptive tags and spices his material with anything that makes his neck tingle. “I’d describe the music as a funky blues experience,” he explains. “While there are some traditional blues songs on the album, there is definitely a mix of funk and soul within the album.”
Almost two decades into his career, the accomplishments in Jacobs’ rear-view mirror are quite something. But as he prepares to release the game-changing Goldfish Blues – and take these new songs on the road – it’s where the guitarist is headed next that’s most compelling. Catch him if you can…

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