Gunwood - Traveling Soul

Don’t hide these guys any longer!
A very good album from the first listening, and from A to Z. There’s some heat and some soul inside, it’s rather astounding.

What’s there, pell-mell?
A small consonance with "My Lady d'Arbanville" for "Tales". With extra banjo and vocal harmonies.
Lalalalalala lala lala... Here’s what "Rainchild" makes you want to sing along, all together, in a big rush of brotherhood!
Other chorus that remains well in mind: “My Daydreams are killing my nights”. There’s a good reason they made a t-shirt with this symbolic sentence!
Not forgetting the martelé strokes of "I Wanna Betray Myself".

As you will have realized: the pieces are clearly different the ones from the others... yet the whole album remains consistent!

Their very traditional folk-blues uses the good old recipes, especially American ones. Nothing very new indeed, but it plays so well. Like a light fresh rosé that flows by itself on a bright day. Or like a good local novel that reads by itself and which characters became so familiar that you have troubles leaving it.

Speaking of characters, it is time to introduce our rascals a little, three bearded devourers of all kinds of music since their earliest childhood: blues, Irish folk, bluegrass, rock, boogie-woogie... The songwriter guitarist-singer Gunnar Ellwanger is of German origin and his incredibly stony voice reminds me of Bror Gunnar Jansson, other today’s big European bluesman. David Jarry-Lacombe handles drums (+ keyboards and bv’s) and João Francisco Preto handles bass (+ banjo, harmonica and bv’s).
They sing road, rain, led astray religion ("Hey Little Brother"), iamgination, hard times and hope ("More"). And it suits them so well.
In partnership with La Grosse Radio, they’ve been signed by Zamora, the record label of Gaël Faure, Aaron, Moriarty and many others. And on Internet you can see them playing with Hugh Coltman or with Ben l'Oncle Soul. Means that they won’t be kept hidden very long.