Terry Blade is one of the few artists around today carrying the weight of a century of blues tradition on their shoulders. With cuts like his latest single ‘Tell ‘Em’, Terry Blade’s niche of minimal skeletal blues is a rare one, given a masterful treatment by a pair of loving hands.
Based in Chicago, Terry Blade is a blues singer and guitar player whose sound on his latest release is a natural extension to a tradition that has survived the decades and still proves to be as potent as ever. Carrying a deep message through Blade’s lyrics and vulnerable vocal inflictions, his blues is loud and bold, while incorporating a single guitar alongside his bluesy croons.
Gracing the new year with a fresh piece of blues, ‘Tell ‘Em’ is a comforting guitar/voice duo that features familiar blues chords and melodies that are instantly recognizable and welcoming. The guitar is roomy and rich in tone, with its light overdrive calculated just right to make the strings sing under Blade’s characterful heavy hands. A cut that drips with charisma, ‘Tell ‘Em’ is good enough proof that the blues are alive and well into the second quarter of the 21st century.
A masterful musician and soulful player, Terry Blade’s music carries a lot of cultural significance, and is able to carry it with confidence and grace. ‘Tell ‘Em’ is a minimal example of what Blade is capable of.
