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"UNPLUGGED"
Guy Roel
THE BLUESMAN
LIVE
FINEST NATURAL
POWER BLUES
2004
"Spirits"
Auto-produit
2001
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GUY ROEL
THE BLUESMAN
UNPLUGGED
Recorded live in Freudenstdt "Bahnhoscafe" summer 2004
by Guy Roel & Belly Music Germany
The Bluesman UNPLUGGED
Soul Bag décembre 2004
“Coup de coeur”
The least you can say is that GR believes in his music, immersed and enchanted by his energy,conviction,culture,quality of the singing,sense of rhythm,construction and length of the tunes, you understand why.
From John Lee Hooker to Taj Mahal,passing over through the Beatles,from Ireland to North Africa,his covers and originals,here well live-recorded ,will convince you that it's worth the detour when his tour comes near you.
Christophe Mourot
Soul Bag décembre 2004
de Blues Magazine
décembre 2004
The wandering Bluesman strikes again!The unplugged formula recorded live in small commitee an intimate setting here is not without remindin’ cannot help but remind us of the
unplugged recorded in 1992 by Eric Clapton. But here,Guy Roel is not backed up by a percussionist,neither by a second guitarist,or a keyboardist,or even a choir or a bass-player: He is alone facing the public! AUTOPROD'
IN FRANCE This column is the occasion to tie up knowledge with some funny phenomena like this one-man band and its often crazy blues. Within the french- blues scene Guy Roel distinguishes himself by the originality and the variety of his escaped alternating creations électro jazz - funk and instrumental to incantatory. Which leads us smoothly above the Indian plains or above African river. With the texts in French which sticks
on the"Road 66", his beautiful nasal voice and his bottleneck play shows that Guy Roel has really more than a trump card to convince us. P.Duval "SPIRITS"
- GUY ROEL Autoproduced! Please, Guy Roel, excellent guitarist remember well this name, this bluesman native of Belfort has just put out a autoproduced CD ,it mixes compositions and includes 14 excellent titles, carried by a sound of the very first order, I recommend you the listening of this disc.
To note "le fou du V°" composition by Guy Roel, Willie Dixon's " I Am " personally I enjoyed a lot this album, as far as the previous " Blues Voyage " which was a perfect success.
Michel Enfert Blues Magazine-N°24 Printemps 02 "SPIRITS"
- GUY ROEL This CD "SPIRITS" is a Must in the the french blues landscape . Out on 14 titles Guy wrote 8, the 6 others are covers (But it is of the great). The album " spirits " is at present jazz up on Paris Jazz with
5 titles!
The performance is less not as easy, indeed,that is giving even more value to this excellent recording.With his 15 acoustic-titles(except for Louisiana Blues on which a slightly amplified guitar is used),Guy Roel offers us some powerful covers from Allen Fuller,Jimmy Reed,BB King,John Lee Hooker,Big Bill Broonzy,Lightnin’ Hopkins and one instrumental
composition,Celtic Kebab.Guy Roel's talents as guitar player and singer don’t need to be praised again.The recording is very rythmical and finely chiselled.
Particulary in Boogie Chillun from John Lee Hooker,and Move to the outskirts of Town from Big Bill Broonzy 2 jewels among others. This CD, recorded in a café during the summer of 2004, will make you envy to catch his concerts and would deserve, by now, to be completed by a song-book.
Bernard Monnot
“Coup de coeur” de Blues Magazine décembre 2004
GUY ROEL
"Spirits"
Beautiful disc, jacket ad hoc.
GUITAR PART #98 mai 2002
The first title " le fou du V °, is a hard boogie, that shakes and unchains from the start to incandescent passions, and it goes on thru the disc. " Yaka River ", an instrumental which leeds to dream, where Guy reveal himself as a supernatural slider. " Hey Bartender " ( Floyd Dixon) a jazzy interpretation , with the support of an impeccable rhythm guitar , a demonstration, on which, one realizes that Roel sure can do a lot with his voice... " I Am " ( Willie Dixon) a long timeless blues Guy Roel own way. " Saucer' Not Cup ", a ballad written by his friend Eric Bibb, " Hoodoo Lady " ( Memphis Minnie), delicious. " O Babe " ( J.Reed) on this track Guy Roel is a creative of senor class, chorus and accompanying are absolutely marvellous.
It is necessary not to miss " Sugar Mama " and " Robert's Dance ".
Here is a luxurious album, an inescapable, hard to bypass.
Harry Patrick Blues*Co 12/2001