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Live Tracks & Extras - EP

by The Motives feat. Matt Taylor

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Features two live tracks from The Motives and the Matt Taylor Band tracks (featured in The Motives live set) 'Fat Tuesday's Blue', 'To Be Alone With You' and the title track from Matt's 1995 debut album 'Radio City Blues' - ALL FREE!

THE MOTIVES OFFICIAL WEBSITE - www.the-motives.com

BIOGRAPHY

A new band project brings together some of the finest talent from the European blues scene. The Motives draw their musical inspiration from 40's New York, 50's Chicago and 60's London. January 2011 saw them take to the recording studio and their debut album is in the pipeline, scheduled for release in June 2012.

The name Matt Taylor is becoming more and more familiar as a highly regarded guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. He has made four albums with his own band and several others in collaboration with the likes of Long John Baldry with whom he toured Europe twice, releasing one live album and The Snowy White Blues Project who he has been working with since 2008, touring all over Europe and releasing one studio and one live album.

As a session musician he has worked with a huge variety of artists in many genres including European and US tours with French superstar Patricia Kaas, TV & radio work with Take That’s Gary Barlow, live work with Tony Hadley and TV appearances with Belinda Carlisle, Shelby Lynne and Lulu. He has backed artists as diverse as Jamie Cullum, Shane McGowan, Tony Christie and Joe Bonamassa, his career taking him to as far-flung places as the Middle East and Siberia. Recently Matt has also turned his hand to production, being at the helm for Mark Butcher’s debut album Songs from the Sun House.

Voted ‘Best Bass Player’ in the 2010 and 2011 British Blues Awards Andy Graham grew up in South Wales and did a degree in classical music but has always been happiest playing bass in a band. Playing with Ian Siegal since the mid '90s, he has been the constant in various band line-ups alongside Ian, playing all over Europe. He has also worked with Imogen Heap and Martine McCutcheon (playing with both at their Hyde Park performances for The Princes Trust in front of a crowd of 150,000), Grace Solero, Dana Gillespie, Lee Sankey's Cool Grey 5ives and international blues artists including Phil Guy and Sugar Blue, amongst others.

This project sees Matt collaborating once again with Snowy White Blues Project drummer Roy Martin. Matt and Roy met in 2003 whilst touring with Patricia Kaas with whom Roy has worked since 1997, traversing the globe many times. Prior to that Roy spent 5 years living in New York where he had the opportunity to work for a wide variety of artists including Aretha Franklin and David Sandborn. More recently he has been seen on the road and in the studio with Barclay James Harvest and Thea Gilmore and in the past has shared stages or studios with artists as diverse as Jack Bruce, Joan Baez and Robert Palmer.

Joining them is undoubtably one of the UK’s best keyboard players, Jonny Dyke who first made his reputation with Brit-blues heroes Out of the Blue, going on to work with US bluesmen Larry Garner and Bob Kirkpatrick and the legendary Memphis Horns. Pop session work followed including appearances with Victoria Beckham and Dolly Parton, UK tours with Elkie Brooks and two world tours with Patricia Kaas, during which time he played in China, the USA and Russia including a performance for President Putin’s birthday at The Kremlin. In 2010 Jonny has been working with folk-pop singer Amy Macdonald, toured the UK with Judie Tzuke and toured Europe with guitarist Coco Montoya and the Ruf Records Blues Caravan. February and March 2011 saw him touring the UK with Ben E King and Gary US Bonds and he has recently been working in Europe with Ruf Records recording artist Meena Cryle.


PRESS QUOTES

“Tough urban blues with lyrics to match delivered in a style that’s as sharp as James Brown’s footwork and as solid as Alcatraz… reminiscent of those Stax-era Albert King and Little Milton songs with Booker T on keyboards.”
John Clarke, The Independent (UK)

“We’re not trying to copy any particular style. I just try to come up with blues songs which don’t sound like all the other blues songs in the world.”
Matt Taylor, Classic Rock presents The Blues Magazine (UK)

“It’s time for the blues boys and girls to sit up and take notice. The men are back”
4 stars (out of 5)
R2 – Rock’n'Reel Magazine (UK)

“…a rock-steady band nail the grooves and Taylor’s timely flourishes provide a serious injection of blues gold. This confident, decade-spanning rhythm’n'blues is swimming in vibe”
Guitar & Bass Magazine (UK)

“crafted songs, which time and again choose a different path than even the most demanding listener expects. Guitarist Matt Taylor excels and has a fierce approach to his playing… If you like listening to sharp, extremely high standard and damn soulful bluesrock, you’ve come to the right place”
Jazzism Magazine (NL)

“A Boost For British Blues… we hear blues in the best Chicago tradition, but also British beat: it provides a nice varied mix of both worlds. The Motives prove that they belong at the top of British blues”
Heaven Magazine (NL)

“…a fine Blues Rock album with great hammond organ sounds and straight drum and bass…expressive clean licks to fat lead lines a la Gary Moore…high class workmanship with style”
Gitarre & Bass Magazine (Germany)

“A man to watch, Matt Taylor. I always used to say that 10 or 15 years ago and it’s still true”
Paul Jones, BBC Radio 2 (Nov 2010)

“Fine guitar sparring between Snowy White and Matt Taylor ensure the album’s appeal to lovers of British blues”
R2 Magazine (Rock’n’Reel)

“Possibly the best guitarist I’ve ever stood on a stage with - Matt Taylor”
Long John Baldry

“The British blues movement is thriving… the seven self-penned tracks here suggest that Matt Taylor should be at the forefront… outstanding”
Martin Townsend, Sunday Express

“For some blues with a difference, go for this one, you won’t be sorry.”
Alan Pearce, Blues Matters

“[Matt Taylor] is the shooting star of the European Blues-Rock scene… he is the legitimate successor of Eric Clapton."
Schweriner Tageszeitung (Germany)

"Matt Taylor is a guitar-virtuoso par excellence. He is an exciting discovery in the blues scene."
Nürnberger News (Germany)

“In Our Time… Live is an excellent live album that we wholeheartedly recommend.”
Bluesrockpagina.nl

"No Trouble At All by Matt Taylor Band is a real gem - a beautifully crafted album that straddles and blurs genre but keeps one eye firmly on contemporary blues”
ToxicPete.com

“[No Trouble At All is] pretty often startlingly original, thumbs up from us”
Pete Sargeant, Fairhearing.co.uk

“the audience reaction showed that excellent musicianship is always popular, whatever its genre… an excellent show and a great evening”
Blues in Britain (review of The Matt Taylor Band)

“the whole house was singing along. A pleasure!”
Blues Matters (review of The Matt Taylor Band)

“all the hallmarks of a band at its creative best with each member feeding off the other trading licks and crafting some unforgettable songs!
BluesConnections.com (review of The Matt Taylor Band)

“The Matt Taylor band retains their own very clear identity. It's a rare achievement and given the appealing nature of that identity - at once unflashy and sophisticated - a noble one”.
Jonathan Blacksfaffe, Blues In Britain

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released September 4, 2011

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A new band project brings together some of the finest talent from the European blues scene. The Motives draw their musical inspiration from 40s New York, 50s Chicago and 60s London, combining Matt Taylor's electrifying guitar work with Jonny Dyke's virtuoso hammond and piano over a rock solid rhythm section of Roy Martin on drums and Andy Graham on Bass. Their new album is released in June 2012. ... more

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