Showing posts with label Chris “BadNews” Barnes. Show all posts
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July 30, 2023

Chris “BadNews” Barnes (with Steve Guyger & Gary Hoey) – Live on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise #32 (2019)

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Soft hokum but great showmanship
C
omic actor, stand-up comedian and TV comedy sketches writer, Chris “BadNews” Barnes is also a blues singer and harmonica player, renowned for being one of the few contemporary devotee to hokum blues (read below). Here, live on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, in February 2019 in the Eastern Caribbean, he works in a softer mode, though. A restraint imposed by the LRBC artistic management ?

Except his original “Hungry & Horny”, with a really funny introduction, most of his repertoire on this Live is made of efficient less explicit covers specially designed to make the cruisers dance.