GROANBOX
‘Guts, Lungs & Bones’
(Groanbox Records / Proper Music Distribution)

Release date: November 2011

WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT  ’Guts, Lungs & Bones’

‘Add a soupcon of old-school vaudeville to the serious business of roots music…the quirky tunes conjure up the back streets of New Orleans and Havanas, as well as moonlit roads in delta-blues land….Marvellous’

SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE

‘Given their limited instrumentation you’d imagine taht this Canadian-US roots trio might have run the gamut of intriguing sounds by now. Amazingly, on this, their fifth album, they’ve fashioned an array of material that’s as diverting as ever…’

**** 4/5 MOJO

‘There’s no band out there quite like Groanbox…the whole is whipped into an unholy frenetic brand of backwoods Americana tinted with music from their travels around the world’

**** 4/5 R2

‘ An entertaining, freewheeling album that provides a reminder of [Groanbox] adventurous approach to global styles…As ever, their energy and enthusiasm are impressive’

 *** 3/5 THE GUARDIAN

‘Groanbox are pluralist in teh truest sense, stirring their deep Southern blues with liberal earfuls of Cajun music, European gypsy reels and woolly mountain folk. That it trip along is so convincingly is testament to both their skillful chops and the raw production that makes everything sound vividly alive’

*** 3/5  UNCUT

‘There are some good tunes here, and plenty of diversity given the sonic restrictions imposed by this only being a trio’

*** 3/5  SONGLINES

‘Unique is a word that frequently used inappropriately, but in the case of the Groanbox, no other description will do’

8/10 AMERICANA UK

‘Musically, they’ve not strayed too far from the last outing, still stewing together blues, American folk, world music, and bluegrass strained through the sieve of New Orleans and Africa alike. Just that this time, they’ve turned up the heat and the noise a little more, and sucked deep their cultural influences: A Cajun squeezebox wheezing, harmonica blowing Po’ Boy gets the ball rolling down Bourbon Street, Bunco Artist pulls back on the throttle for deep voiced acoustic plantation blues before the album’s only instrumental, the hypnotic Moroccan vibe of Tamazight, named after the unofficial Berber language of Central Morocco.’

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