Dan Treanor, Richard Ray Farrell & The Afrosippi Band - Keepin' Good Folks Joyful (2008)

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Extraordinary ! Exhilarating !

Treanor-Farrell, Farrell-Treanor ? Afrisippi, Afrissippi or Afrossippi ? Or maybe Missifrican or Missafrican ? What a headache ! In fact it doesn't matter, even if personally I would vote for the second proposition (Farell-Treanor) considering Farrell is doing all the singing, guitars and gitjo (1). On the other hand, Treanor has set up and produced the project, and brought the African sound with his khalam, diddley-bow and cane flute, both men being even on harmonica. So let it like it is . Concerning the Afrosippi Band, on this album it's been reduced to the sole rock solid rhythm section formed by Jodie Woodward on bass and the excellent Kyle Roberts on drums, congas and various percussion.

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The Bohemian bluesman

Richard Ray Farrell (RRF) has led quite a bohemian life. He left his native New York State in 1976 to seek fortune in Europe. After busking in the Paris subway (a real breeding-ground for future talents, at least at that time) for a few years, spending time in Spain around 1978, settling down for a few years in Stuttgart (Germany) in the mid-1980s, playing in different bands, he finally found himself backing an array of Afro-American blues musicians on their European tours in the beginning of the 1990s : Louisiana Red, Big Jack Johnson, Lazy Lester, Big Boy Henry, and more particularly Frank Frost and R.L. Burnside, who were like first-hand mentors to him. This led him to record a first album in 1992 which definitely launched his career.