1929651_36341860320_9374_n_36341860320.jpg
 
****
FOUR STARS! Q Recommends
— Q Magazine
A fantastic album!
— BBC 6 Music (live session) - Steven Merchant
One of the most original artists out there
— Blues Matters Magazine (front cover feature)
 

SoundCloud

nypl.digitalcollections.1ba26100-12a8-0133-79af-58d385a7b928.001.w.jpg

Press & Radio

 

Modern rock music at its very best. A warped mix of country, rock and blues. Conil takes the blues on a 21st century journey. This record is anything but predictable. One of the best releases of the year.
— Blues Matters Magazine
I played it last week, I just had to play it again
— BBC Radio 2 - Bob Harris
A strange brew indeed. Gritty, urban blues, full of tales of hard life. Pray he lives long enough to record a second album.
— Q Magazine
If you like your music real, raw and meaningful, here’s the voice for you. One of Heat’s Hot New Artists of the Year.
— Heat Magazine
nypl.digitalcollections.1c4625c0-12a8-0133-8d6d-58d385a7b928.001.w.jpg
 

About

Songs from the edge of somewhere. A place that doesn’t announce itself. You step in and can’t tell if you’ve walked into a protest, a party, or the end of something.

The music comes from the blues and from the life that followed it. A voice marked by the places it’s been.

People heard it before he understood what they were hearing.

Danny Thompson said, “You don’t sound like anyone else.”

Tchad Blake still plays Strange Part of the Country.

Peter Green walked into the studio one afternoon and cut a track.

The record didn’t arrive with noise. It surfaced. Q Magazine marked it. Blues Matters put him on the cover. A single reached number three on the U.S. Alternative Radio Chart.

The early years were England. Then came New Orleans, New York, Berlin, the Himalayas, Kilimanjaro.

The second album is close now. Marc Ribot on guitar. Danny Thompson’s last sessions. Tchad Blake in Wales.

Some things reveal themselves only at the end.

 
SS34829_34829_42654102EDIT.jpg

Bandcamp - CD & Downloads

Produced by Conil

Feat. Grammy-winner Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello)

& bass legend Danny Thompson (Joe Strummer, Nick Drake)

View of Mountain Valley.jpg
 
 
nypl.digitalcollections.d143de50-12b3-0133-2c50-58d385a7bbd0.001.w.jpg

Live

 

Lyrics