Hans Theessink – Slow Train

Recorded in a non-studio environment - fantastic ambient sound! Theessink has composed a stirring set of songs that seamlessly fuse his unplugged picking, sonorous voice, and three-piece band into the very definition of laid-back comfort. Three singers from Zimbabwe add wonderful harmonies that fill-out the music to magical effect. Such magnificent combinations of seemingly divergent elements drive this splendid album to spine-tingling heights. Theessink doesn't play traditional blues here; instead, he deftly references the genre as one of many stops on his global trek through the Delta, into backwoods folk, and onward to Africa.

1. Slow Train
2. Katrina
3. God Created the World
4. Thula Mama/Oh Mother Don't You Weep
5. Love You Baby
6. Old Man Trouble
7. Leaving at Daybreak
8. May the Road
9. Run on for a Long Time
10. When Luther Played the Blues

Label: Blue Groove

Catalog: 1610

Genre: Blues