Enter a ticket giveaway for Blues Control's show at Jumbo's Bar on Friday, Sept. 7. Email motorcityblog@earthlink.net for a chance at the free tickets. The band's touring in support of their new album, Valley Tangents, which was released on Drag City in June.
Now
located in Lehigh Valley, PA, Blues Control's Russ Waterhouse and Lea
Cho conceived Valley Tangents, their first album for Drag City, far from
the madding crowds that they’d previous swarmed with and composed
among. Perhaps this is the reason for the more homegrown, natural feel
of the music behind their signature Debussy via Guaraldi qua Bley qua
Hornsby pianisms, and the playful juxtapositions of a full spectrum of
rock colors: stadium, industrial, psych and prog (to name just a
few). In 2009, after Blues Control's Local Flavor was released, Russ and
Lea left Queens (their home of many years), and lived back east a bit,
eventually finding themselves in a house in Coopersburg, PA. They
recorded Valley Tangents here, and at Black Dirt (where many of their
albums were recorded). As with each of their previous albums, Valley
Tangents is a full (r)evolution ahead of what came before, at times an
unrecognizable new blend of sounds to call Blues Control.