tracks

This Kind Of Life
To Call My Own
Bye Baby
Hope & Pray
Tried To Love Her
Reel
Way Down Below
Winner Or Loser
I'm On Fire
I May Be Right

notes

All Songs were recorded live to tape with a few overdubs
All Songs arranged by Rico except kind of life (Rico and Charlie Glad)
I'm On Fire (Rico and Charlie Glad), Tried to Love Her (Rico and Dominic Laroche)
Rico Blain: from his bio :Nuits de Fourvière, Jazz à Vienne, Cahors Blues Festival, Blues sur Seine, Cognac Blues Passions, Festival d’été de Québec, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal: the four letters of his name have rang like a whip on the boards of many stages.

On these stages he is known as Rico.

After three albums, he has come down from the Rocky Mountains of the north, where tree branches bend under the snow, to reach the Mexican border and its infinite horizon.

A new musical adventure in cinemascope fuelled by the hot and arid plains of a Spaghetti Western. Where there is no good or evil. No black, no white. Only patches of gray. Where the rugged, dark and possessed voice of Rico blends folk melodies, powerful blues and intense rock.

Although he usually walks alone, he knows that some battles are better won in numbers…

For his new album Sweet Exile, Rico has recruited two pistoleros, Jean Joly on bass and Josselin Soutrenon on drums. Together, they are Rico & the Escape. With bridles slashing the flanks of their horses, the three men have come together to deliver an ambitious and larger than life sound made up of varied compositions and astounding orchestrations.

By the time Sweet Exile is official released on November 9, 2018, this band of outlaws will add two member, a keyboard player. and a rhythm guitarist. With the circle complete, the members will deploy enough energy to power a locomotive. A rattlesnake’s tail whistles between their boots...

It is important to note that Rico also continues to do shows as a One Man Band.

“... the dazzling They Call Me Rico. An abundance of rock blues, an unstoppable look and above all, a huge sound.”

- Rolling Stone (France), September 2018

“A combination of rugged rural blues and foot tapping rock and roll, an explosive mix that could have come from a meeting between Robert Johnson and Tom Waits.” GUITAR XTREME

“His fingers on the trigger of his six strings, foot on the bass drum, this one-man band has a heavy sound.” LYLO

“His blue note is colored with a thick and deep dye of rock, with wild guitar playing and a rocky voice.” GUITAR PART

credits

Bass – Dominic Laroche
Guitar – Rico Blain
Lap Steel Guitar – Nicolas Grimard
Mastered By – Ray Staff
Organ – Charlie Glad
Vocals – Rico Blain

companies

Recorded At – Studio Vox
Mastered At – Air Studios

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