Bex Marshall "Kitchen Table"
(Blues / Roots Music / Folk Rock)
Bex Marshall's opening track to her international debut
"Kitchen Table", will certainly hook you, and the rest of this
impressive album will drag you in.
With "Kitchen Table" Bex Marshall has placed herself
front and center on the Blues, Roots, and Folk Rock Music Radar, with a very satisfying
and immensely refreshing Album.
Lyrically, Vocally, and Musically, "Kitchen Table" is
one of the most enjoyable albums I have listened to in quite a while.
The Lyrics are second to none, filled with all the emotion and
impact expected in well written songs. Vocally, you are not going to find many
that have such a clear, strong, and sultry tone. Musically, it is more than apparent,
that Bex is very well rehearsed when it comes to both the electric and acoustic
guitar, at times reminding me a bit of Mark Knopfler.
"Kitchen Table" was a real treat to listen to and a
must have Album for any lover of Blues, Roots, and Folk Rock.
I give this CD, my highest rating, Five***** Excellent CD...
Thoroughly enjoyed it... Highly Recommended...
John Vermilyea (Blues Underground Network)
Info & Reviews
"Short but exquisitely recorded, Kitchen Table sounds like a significant breakthrough by a major songwriting talent."
Rock 'n' Reel
"This album is without an apparent weakness or filler tune, and is superb." Blues Matters
Cracking Music - From A Future Star?
By R. Woodbridge "Woody" (Hampshire, England)
I saw Bex Marshall live as the supporting act to Hayseed Dixie. She was brilliant, just her and her guitar filled the auditorium with a powerful, resonant sound. Her voice and guitar playing were well matched and the music was skillfully delivered. An all round enjoyable experience, well worth the ticket price on her own, on the way out I brought a copy of the album signed by Bex.
Unlike her live performance, the album has a greater range of instruments and additional artists, including the Reno brothers from Hayseed Dixie. Whilst it does not fully convey the brilliant power and emotion of her live performance it makes up for it with good production and a broader more polished sound. If you enjoyed her live performance, you'll like the album and vice versa. Bex Marshall is definitely an artist to add your watch list for both album releases and live performances.
Every home needs a Kitchen Table!
By Greennose "greennose" (Edinburgh, Scotland)
This is a superb collection of 10 self penned tracks. Its blues with a country and folk tinge and is a very authentic and well crafted set of songs.
Marshall has been likened to a range of different artists including Janis Joplin and Maggie Bell for her vocal prowess and Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Lowell George and Rory Gallagher for her guitar playing amongst others.
Kitchen Table is Bex's second UK album and her first international release, yet she sounds so assured in her guitar playing, vocals and her song writing. The two guitars that Marshall plays on the album are her 1973 Gibson Hummingbird and 2006 Ozark resonator with often a slide on her little finger. The title track is the opener and is an upbeat number featuring Bex on both electric and acoustic guitar and lyrically it is a call for the return of the kitchen table as the traditional meeting place of the family - no TV dinners on this album! Red Light is a slow acoustic delta blues song, just Bex and her guitar. Hot Headed Man starts slow but becomes a frantically paced slide guitar number, in which she is backed with Don and Dale Reno from the band Hayseed Dixie. The song is about a man and too much whisky! The same drink is mentioned in Black Guitar, but this is a very different type of song, and it's a stunner. A tale of a man in a failed relationship - "every night he drinks whatever he can afford, he takes a black guitar ... plays it for the Lord". Musically it is superb with Marshall's haunting slide guitar.
A far more lyrically positive song is the playful Bad Bad Girl, while Little Bird is a standout track where she speaks of the emotion of letting someone go, from the initial sadness of the lyrics comes quite an uplifting feeling. Stand Up combines gospel with blues, while Here Is My Heart is extremely soulful. Too Much Rock n Roll is where the likeness to Rory Gallagher is most apparent and lyrically it refers to the self inflicted passing of a friend. Simon J Alpin produced the album with Bex and he adds some mandolin to Head in the Clouds the closing and most commercial track on the album. Highly recommended!
Tracklist
1.Kitchen Table 3:53
2.Red Light 2:32
3.Hot Headed Man 3:24
4.Black Curtain 3:53
5.Stand Up 4:40
6.Here Is My Heart 4:29
7.Little Bird 3:36
8.Bad Bad Girl 3:29
9.Too Much Rock & Roll 3:14
10.Head In The Clouds 3:13
An explosion of blue hot acoustic slide roots/rock, poker twisted with a whippin of Bluegrass, a versatile guitarist with a unique earthy melting pot of a voice.
Songwriter/producer Bex Marshall possesses a guitar skill that has been likened to Stevie Ray Vaughan to Derek Trucks, Rory Gallagher to Robert Johnson.
She exudes excitement and charisma as she performs solo or with her band on stages across the globe. She is an adventuress, a writer, seasoned guitar player and passionate vocalist, her musical influences are varied and many although comparisons have ranged from JJ Cale to Hendrix, her music has been described as... “Bonnie Raitt and Led Zep jamming in an everglade moonshine joint”.
Her song writing is highly praised in her latest album reviews….“Touches of genius” “Staggering” ‘Intelligent and interesting’, ‘Timeless’, ‘…She has mastered the art of making new material sound like its been found in long forgotten vaults” Net Rhythms
She is a troubadour, telling her tales with humour and wit, honesty and slang, a musical inspiration, poetry to blues, an instrumental turbine of melody, people gawp at her fearless playing.
The new album ‘Kitchen Table’ is a mix of roots, rock rags entwined with bluegrass frfr ailsnd home down blues slide.
Live, she plays all this solo, she lets rip like no ones watching, the gal likes to have fun onstage it’s in her blood.
THEN there’s her voice….Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Joan Armatrading, Beth Hart, Bonnie Raitt…all have been mentioned in comparisons but Bex has her own style Powerful, yet subtle, husky yet clear cut and totally unforgettable. “No Gimmicks”, ‘Raw’, ‘Gritty’ and ‘Absolute stand out’,
‘She has all those essential vocal frailties that make the difference between soul and soulful’, Folk and Roots 09,
Bex Marshall’s voice draws up the ghosts of old blues women’s heartaches’, Outlaw Magazine 09 TX March 09.
...please don’t compare her to any other white singer she has no time for that... Matt Socey NUVO Indianapolis
Welcome to the World of Bex Marshall.
Bex Marshall Solo performance of
Black Guitar song from the new album
