Rick Fowler 2012 Discordia & Live from Athens, GA

Rick Fowler contacted me @facebook to offer me/you/us some tracks from his new albums for free. Read the complete conversation here:

Rick Fowler wrote:

Thanks so much for including us in your wonderful site.

I would like to send you a link to download some new songs. We have two new albums out; one is a new live album.

Thanks again,
Rick Fowler

contactrickfowler@gmail.com

My answer:

Hi Rick Fowler,

my name is Mile from southernbluesrock.blogspot.com. A while ago you contacted me on facebook and offered some links to some tracks of your new albums, which I would appreciate a lot!

You can send me any promotional material (pictures, video-clips, reviews, ...) and I will publish it on my blog. Please send only download-links of tracks I may publish on my site. I am curious about your new albums and hope to hear from you again.

Have a nice day & keep on rocking!

Mile

Ricks answer:

Mile,

Thanks so much for the reply. I love your site! Here is a folder with most of our last two albums (Discordia, Live from Athens, GA). Please download and publish whatever you wish. We greatly appreciate the support.

Sincerely,

Rick

Info:

Rick Fowler, former guitarist for Fortnox and Bombay, recorded the blues-rock album "Back On My Good Foot" on the Jammates Records label in 2008. It was highly praised by major music critics and led to the formation of this band.

The members are:
Rick Fowler: guitar and vocals
Greg Veale: bass and vocals
Michael Doke: guitar, slide guitar, and vocals
Deane Quinter: drums
Tim “Drawbar” White: Hammond organ

The band finished a five-song EP entitled "Discordia," released in June of 2011. In June of 2012, they recorded a live album called “Live from Athens, GA.”

We don't want to bore you with a bunch of self-hyping biographical information. Just please give our music a listen. Hopefully you will enjoy it.

Website:
www.rickfowlerband.com

Contact:
contactrickfowler@gmail.com




Rick Fowler Band 2012 Discordia

Tracklist:

01 - Guided Missile


02 - Hellhound

03 - I Know You Rider

04 - Saving Grace


05 - This Life






Rick Fowler Band 2012 Live From Athens, GA

Genre: Blues-Rock
Rate: 128 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:47:02
Size: 47,59 MB



Tracklist:

01 - Preacher (Live) 06:36


02 - Skeleton In Your Closet (Live) 05:51


03 - This Life (Live) 04:31

04 - Road To Nowhere (Live) 05:04

05 - Walk Softly (Live) 06:07

06 - Prince Of Fools (Live) 07:10

07 - Hellhound (Live) 06:27


08 - Guided Missile (Live) 05:16




Rick Fowler Band here:

Discordia @amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Discordia/dp/B0055BP6N0

Live From Athens, GA @amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Rick-Fowler-Band-Athens-Georgia/dp/B008KKUAIY

Thank you Rick Fowler for the kindly permission to post all the tracks, covers & videos! I appreciate it a lot!

Rick Fowler Band 2008 Back On My Good Foot

Genre: Blues
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 00:53:33
Size: 122,49 MB



Fowler grew up listening to British blues cats like Robin Trower and Kim Simmonds and the Texas blues of Johnny Winter, and brings plenty of rock & roll attitude to his music. He's been playing since he was 12, and has a checkered career behind him including film scores, prolific work as a sideman, and a famous benefit concert for Tourette's Syndrome that featured R.E.M.'s Bill Berry on drums, who guests here on "Road to Nowhere." Fowler obviously likes his blues low down and dirty and despite its uplifting title, Back on My Good Foot is crammed with tales from life's darker side. Fowler sings with an understated intensity and his playing isn't showy, but brims over with a dark soulful power.

On the title tune Fowler sings "I know I'm gonna be all right," but the music belies his optimistic forecast. His solo here is measured and deliberate, contrasting neatly with Tim White's big Hammond B-3 which conjures up storm clouds and lightening. White is the album's secret weapon, sharing the solo spotlight with his boss and adding his own foreboding aura to the proceedings. Fowler's also a superior songwriter, and while his scenarios are unremittingly bleak they're also imbued with a self-effacing humor that keeps things from getting too grim. The opener, "Infected with the Blues," likens the blues to a fatal disease. Fowler's observations on his condition here mirror the lives of many as he sings "I'm worried 'bout the future, I'm haunted by the past, ain't crazy 'bout the present, I pray that it can't last..." His solo is full of fire and brimstone that belies his protestation of helplessness. On "Preacher" Fowler smacks back at religious hypocrisy, telling the Reverend that he'll find peace in his own way. White's B-3 soars to the heavens while Fowler's slashing guitar keeps things anchored to the earth. "Road to Nowhere" is another ode to alienation and despair, again marked by Fowler's deadpan wit. A screaming solo full of bent notes and long sustains segues into White's easy rolling organ solo, suggesting a car cruising down an empty highway at midnight. "Skeletons in Your Closet" is a spooky country-blues thang with Fowler's slide guitar adding icy accents. Guest player Randall Bramblett takes the tune home with a brief churchy organ solo. A cover of Savoy Brown's "Hellbound Train" closes the album on a suitably desolate note. The playing stays subdued throughout, all tension and no release until Fowler breaks out with a growling volley of blue notes near the tune's end, but the fury quickly subsides to close with an almost meditative bass solo by Michael C. Steele.



Tracklist:

01 - Infected With The Blues 04:18

02 - Skeletons In Your Closet 04:10

03 - Feel So Much Better 05:50

04 - Back On My Good Foot 03:52

05 - Preacher 06:04

06 - Walk Softly 06:14

07 - Running From The Truth 03:19

08 - Road To Nowhere 04:11

09 - Hitchiking 05:35

10 - Hellbound Train 10:00





Rick Fowler Band here:

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