Band: The Heartmumurs
Title: 'Same Old Blues'
Writer: Rick Galusha
The latest release by Lincoln's well known Zoo Bar house band, The Heartmurmurs' is aptly named, 'Same Old Blues.' Recorded live in October 2001, The Heartmurmurs purr through a two disc slate of traditional and pop-blues standards including covers of songs by B. B. King, Bill Withers, Chuck Berry, and Albert Collins. In a world where the next wrinkle on the blues is hailed as ground-breaking, the Heartmurmurs dish up their standard fare of blues that Lincoln's steeped audience have come to expect; not quite purists but any illusions of 'fad dancing' is left to other bands. Each member of the band is a competent musician and not adding any flairs to the blues, but then their meal ticket has been punched because they don't change - what you see is what you get and if you like what you've gotten since 1973 you're going to love this double CD set.
Probably as much a souvenir piece of the Zoo Bar, 'Same Old Blues' is a solid measuring stick for all blues discs. As the blues genres struggles to define itself in this modern world, with rock music being marketed as the blues. The Heartmurmurs march on playing what they know best and giving their audience what they have come to expect. To paraphrase Ray Davies of the Kinks, God Bless stability, "tea and virginity."
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