What began as a ardour mission to create an amazing blues album, has now develop into a profitable collaborative enterprise for Christopher Wyze & The Tellers. Now they current a dwell video efficiency of their single, ‘Caught In The Mud‘, recorded on the historic Juke Joint Chapel in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Wyze comes from southern Indiana, however by some means he’s all the time being pulled again to Clarksdale, not only for the music, but additionally the city itself. And so, he’s created a documentary, ‘Wyze In Clarksdale’, which covers the story of a small area that’s steeped in musical historical past. Hosted by Wyze himself, it’s an intimate, private tour, and celebrates the colourful neighborhood of Clarksdale, and their quest to maintain the blues ferociously alive.
Recorded on the Juke Joint Chapel, Wyze’s new album, ‘Dwell In Clarksdale’ builds on the momentum introduced along with his studio album, ‘Caught In The Mud’. He’s introduced collectively a brand new group of musicians to deliver the album to life on stage, and collectively they take the chance to showcase their expertise, and have a good time doing it.
Within the dwell video for ‘Caught In The Mud’, followers will discover that Wyze is accompanied on vocals by Irene Smits, who he met years in the past on the Shack Up Inn. The collaboration on the most recent observe got here out of the blue, with Smits messaging Wyze to say that she’d come over to Clarksdale from her dwelling in The Netherlands, to carry out at a close-by venue – on the identical day as Wyze’s dwell efficiency. He in fact requested her to hitch the band on stage for this observe, and the end result – perfection. There’s such chemistry between the pair, with an entire new vitality given to the track. It’s only a small style of the entire dwell album, which options eight of the band’s authentic studio singles, and two blues requirements from the Nineteen Twenties, ‘How Lengthy, How Lengthy Blues’, and, ‘No one Is aware of You When You’re Down and Out’.
You’ll be able to watch the dwell video of ‘Caught In The Mud’ beneath, and discover out extra about Christopher Wyze & The Tellers and their music on-line on their official web site, YouTube, Fb, and Instagram.
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