Steve Howell

Steve Howell & The Mighty Men – 99 1/2 Won’t Do (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:30 minutes | 741 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Out Of The Past Music

Steve Howell and the Mighty Men continue their extended journey through the blues, roots, R&B, gospel, and pop music history with an eclectic offering of ten songs called 991/2 Won’t Do. After over thirty years of making music together, and in a myriad of other settings, the musical conversation created between them results in an almost intuitive interplay. Here they have come up with a set list for this recording that combines Blues, Gospel, R&B, Roots, and Rock and Roll embracing vocal and instrumental renditions of some of their favorite tunes. Living up to their continued high standards on this release, 991/2 Won’t Do provides a journey fueled by thought-provoking and moving songs played by a quartet of veteran musicians with a decidedly high level of skill, depth, and fire.

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Steve Howell – Gallery Of Echoes (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:58 minutes | 574 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Out Of The Past Music

Steve Howell continues searching for the deep root of American blues and roots music with Gallery Of Echoes, a collection of tunes he has been playing for a long time, some for as many as fifty years. Eleven tunes from Blind Lemon Jefferson, Rev. Gary Davis, Blind Willie McTell, and other country blues stalwarts feature Howell’s considerable fingerstyle guitar skills and soulful vocals. Here he reaches into his deep musical bag and comes up with fine examples of blues storytelling. His first solo record after releasing ten collaborative efforts, including those with his longstanding bandmates, The Mighty Men, this record is a tribute to the echoes of the sounds some of his heroes pioneered and the universal themes they communicated that still ring true today.

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