Dani Wilde – Heal My Blues (Ruf Records).
21 year old Dani Wilde hails from Brighton and this is her debut for Ruf. Don’t let her lack of years lull you into thinking that she can’t sing the blues. She has a voice that suits a gritty blues and a crystal clear delivery that can deal with the most intense ballad. Bring Your Loving Home is a driving blues rock with a jazzy chorus and label mate Ian Parker on guitar. Will Wilde also chips in on harp. Heal My Blues has a strong vocal and she certainly knows her way around a fretboard too. It’s just what British blues needs -- a young female who can play as well. Come Undone is a swinging blues with mucho power from such a small frame and Parker weighs in with some telling guitar. I Love You More Than I Hate Myself is an expansive slow blues that draws out all the emotions. Could it become a classic? I Want Your Loving, another pulsating boogie, is a vehicle for the voice this time although Parker is there to help out again.
Testify is punchy with a gritty vocal. In The Mood is the old John Lee Hooker song and she gives it a slightly different treatment to those that I’m familiar with but well played. Norman Whitfield’s I’m Going Down is piano led and a powerful ballad with her strong voice betraying some emotion in parts. Slow Coach is a jaunty country blues and she swings up the classic Junior Wells song, Little By Little. She gets a big help from harmonica player Will Wilde on the latter. People Like You is an acoustic finish. Low key but a very good song indeed.
http://www.rufrecords.de/
David Blue.
21 year old Dani Wilde hails from Brighton and this is her debut for Ruf. Don’t let her lack of years lull you into thinking that she can’t sing the blues. She has a voice that suits a gritty blues and a crystal clear delivery that can deal with the most intense ballad. Bring Your Loving Home is a driving blues rock with a jazzy chorus and label mate Ian Parker on guitar. Will Wilde also chips in on harp. Heal My Blues has a strong vocal and she certainly knows her way around a fretboard too. It’s just what British blues needs -- a young female who can play as well. Come Undone is a swinging blues with mucho power from such a small frame and Parker weighs in with some telling guitar. I Love You More Than I Hate Myself is an expansive slow blues that draws out all the emotions. Could it become a classic? I Want Your Loving, another pulsating boogie, is a vehicle for the voice this time although Parker is there to help out again.
Testify is punchy with a gritty vocal. In The Mood is the old John Lee Hooker song and she gives it a slightly different treatment to those that I’m familiar with but well played. Norman Whitfield’s I’m Going Down is piano led and a powerful ballad with her strong voice betraying some emotion in parts. Slow Coach is a jaunty country blues and she swings up the classic Junior Wells song, Little By Little. She gets a big help from harmonica player Will Wilde on the latter. People Like You is an acoustic finish. Low key but a very good song indeed.
http://www.rufrecords.de/
David Blue.
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