Sat 20 Apr
|FortyFive Vinyl Café
Michael Messer & Chaz Jankel
Virtuoso slide guitarist & songwriter Michael Messer of whom Johnny Cash said “What I hear here is the real thing…” teamed with Chaz Jankel founder member of the Blockheads with Ian Dury and co-writer of hits such as “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick” and “Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll”.
Time & Date
20 Apr 2024, 19:30
FortyFive Vinyl Café, 29 Micklegate, York, UK
Details
Virtuoso slide guitarist & songwriter Michael Messer (favourite of Johnny Cash) and multi-instrumentalist songwriter Chaz Jankel (Ian Dury & The Blockheads) release their debut album, Mostly We Drive – a finely crafted, lyrically inventive collaboration via Knife Edge Records/Proper on January 19, 2024 These two superb songwriters wear decades of combined musical experience lightly, as the eleven original songs here display a freshness of approach and add new twists to their foundational influences in Blues, World, Funk, New Wave and Rock. This exhilarating and accessible collection bears comparison with the finest work in either of their garlanded careers. Michael Messer’s reputation as an innovator in the blues genre and master of slide guitar is well known. For forty years and ten albums Messer has been unafraid to incorporate Reggae, African stylings, Hindustani classical music and even turntablism into his individual vision of the Blues. Messer’s album ‘King Guitar’ topped the…