Twelve Bar Blues Band - The Blues Has Got Me

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2006
Time:63:49 
Size:146,4 MB 
Label:Tramp Records 
Styles:Modern Electric Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. The Blues Has Got Me -  9:11
 2. Cold Hearted Woman -  6:01
 3. Standing on Melting Ice - 10:26
 4. Love Is Pain -  7:12
 5. Graveyard Blues -  7:25
 6. Tell Nobody the Trouble I'm In -  8:46
 7. I Can't Get Enough of That Girl -  9:27
 8. Everyday I Have the Blues -  5:19

From the moment the band started in 2005 the Twelve Bar Blues Band, also known as 12BBB, was considered as THE surprise of the Dutch blues scene. As the band demonstrated their musical qualities already many times at national and international stages journalists and organizers made clear this band is not a surprise anymore . Everybody who saw and heard the band play consider 12BBB as the top in the Netherlands and beyond for sure.
Combing a wicked guitar and tasteful licks is not always an easy task; yet The Twelve Bar Blues Band does this very well. J.J. Sharp is a sensitive blues veteran whose voice sounds "whiskey-soaked" while remaining powerful to the point of turning heads. The grooving rhythm section lends to the sometimes haunting and always cookin' sound that this band lays down. From this writer's point of view, TBBB just sounds good! The use of slide and harp further enhance the emotion and power of these songs, which are mostly originals. This is true blues and sincere musicianship that one could listen to for hours. 
12BBB mainly plays originals (!), real down to earth blues, written by supertandem Jan J. Scherpenzeel, alias J.J. Sharp (Lead Vocals&Harmonica) and Kees Dusink, (Lead&Slide guitar). They get their inspiration straight from the Chicagoblues.
Leaded by these guys the band impresses the audience and organizers with the high quality of their music and creation of the ultimate bluesfeel you only would expect to find in Chicago or New Orleans.
The 12BBB rhythm section is already worthwile to see playing on its own. Base player Patrick "Sideburn" Obrist, drummer “Wild” Marcel Bakker and rhythm guitarist Randy Pears together form the solid base of 12BBB. They are really experienced and able to play any traditional bluesstyle as a real peace of art. This is exactly where the blues-lover comes for, such a groove that may never end and where you won’t get out of. The First CD of the band “The Blues Has Got Me” that was released worldwide, by many blues radiostations was chosen as “Blues CD of the Month” and even as Blues CD of the year 2006.

The Blues Has Got Me