CHRIS RUSSELL'S CHICKEN WALK
''CHRIS RUSSELL'S CHICKEN WALK''
OCTOBER 19 2012
44:53
1. Evil (W. Dixon)/4:06
2. Skinny Girl/7:21
3. Lying to Myself/3:37
4. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed (Trad.)/6:44
5. Worry Me in the Daytime/5:19
6. Bad Things Too/6:00
7. Strange/5:22
8. Ride Me/6:24
For two and a half years, Chicken Walk was just Chris playing solo with just an open tuned sea foam green Danelectro and a Goldentone reverbmaster for company on stage. His annual pilgrimages with his wife to the Mississippi Delta facilitated his evolution from sitting in with the local living masters, to performing the prized Juke Joints with Cadillac John Nolden, The Corn Lickers, Cameron Kimbrough and Lightnin’ Malcolm.
“The first time I hopped off the bus in Clarksdale, Mississippi, I looked around me. I could see fields of cotton, corn and beans. It was so hot the crops were shimmering. The earth had such a presence that I could hear music in the silence. It was if musi- cians from this area – from Muddy Waters to Robert ‘Wolfman’ Belfour, had plugged their guitars straight into the soil and blues had come pouring out.” – Chris Russell
In December 2011, Chicken Walk grew to a ‘two-piece feed’, adding Dean Muller (Hoss, Cosmic Psychos) on drums and this newly evolved duo’s live sound begun filling rooms with hypnotic boogie and pulsating Northern Mississippi Hill Country Blues. They have since shared the stage with the likes of Graveyard Train, Old Gray Mule and perennial festival favourite Gary Clark Jr. They have also just been announced to play Golden Plains in 2013 with Parliament Funkadelic and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and also the inaugural Deni Blues & Roots Fest alongside the legendary Bonnie Raitt, Tony Joe White and Jimmy Cliff.
Their eponymous self-titled debut is now available on deluxe vinyl, CD and digital through Cobra Snake Necktie Records and Love & Theft Recordings. Upon release it immediately rocketed to top spot for a fortnight on the Amrap AirIt Charts and was officially launched to a beyond capacity and jumpin’ crowd in early November. Extremely positive reviews amongst print media and community radio ensued, most notably PBSfm Album of the Week.
''CHRIS RUSSELL'S CHICKEN WALK''
OCTOBER 19 2012
44:53
1. Evil (W. Dixon)/4:06
2. Skinny Girl/7:21
3. Lying to Myself/3:37
4. Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dyin' Bed (Trad.)/6:44
5. Worry Me in the Daytime/5:19
6. Bad Things Too/6:00
7. Strange/5:22
8. Ride Me/6:24
For two and a half years, Chicken Walk was just Chris playing solo with just an open tuned sea foam green Danelectro and a Goldentone reverbmaster for company on stage. His annual pilgrimages with his wife to the Mississippi Delta facilitated his evolution from sitting in with the local living masters, to performing the prized Juke Joints with Cadillac John Nolden, The Corn Lickers, Cameron Kimbrough and Lightnin’ Malcolm.
“The first time I hopped off the bus in Clarksdale, Mississippi, I looked around me. I could see fields of cotton, corn and beans. It was so hot the crops were shimmering. The earth had such a presence that I could hear music in the silence. It was if musi- cians from this area – from Muddy Waters to Robert ‘Wolfman’ Belfour, had plugged their guitars straight into the soil and blues had come pouring out.” – Chris Russell
In December 2011, Chicken Walk grew to a ‘two-piece feed’, adding Dean Muller (Hoss, Cosmic Psychos) on drums and this newly evolved duo’s live sound begun filling rooms with hypnotic boogie and pulsating Northern Mississippi Hill Country Blues. They have since shared the stage with the likes of Graveyard Train, Old Gray Mule and perennial festival favourite Gary Clark Jr. They have also just been announced to play Golden Plains in 2013 with Parliament Funkadelic and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and also the inaugural Deni Blues & Roots Fest alongside the legendary Bonnie Raitt, Tony Joe White and Jimmy Cliff.
Their eponymous self-titled debut is now available on deluxe vinyl, CD and digital through Cobra Snake Necktie Records and Love & Theft Recordings. Upon release it immediately rocketed to top spot for a fortnight on the Amrap AirIt Charts and was officially launched to a beyond capacity and jumpin’ crowd in early November. Extremely positive reviews amongst print media and community radio ensued, most notably PBSfm Album of the Week.
