Dom Turner & The Rural Blues Project

Sit Tight (digital download)

Dom Turner & The Rural Blues Project

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The debut album, from Dom Turner and the Rural Blues Project, Sit Tight, is a collection of 13 powerfully brooding, menacing, upbeat 20th century rural blues songs by traditional artists such as Lead Belly, Fred McDowell and Robert Johnson, all hybridised and rearranged for 21st century audiences. Dom Turner (of Backsliders) and legendary drummer

The debut album, from Dom Turner and the Rural Blues Project, Sit Tight, is a collection of 13 powerfully brooding, menacing, upbeat 20th century rural blues songs by traditional artists such as Lead Belly, Fred McDowell and Robert Johnson, all hybridised and rearranged for 21st century audiences. Dom Turner (of Backsliders) and legendary drummer Rosscoe Clark are joined by guests George Washingmachine (violin) and Johnny Gauci (accordion, organ, piano). Sit Tight was recorded at Oceanic Studio by Jim Moginie, and mastered by Steve Smart at Studios 301. Quotes “Perhaps Australia’s truest of ‘true blue bluesmen’” Bluesfest 2022 “Turner is a phenomenal guitarist – slide and otherwise – and brilliant songwriter with trademark vocals” Rhythms Magazine “The man is a phenomenal blues player.” BWW Reviews

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    02 Hellhound On My Trail (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 4:20
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    03 Midnight Special (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 3:47
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    04 Broke Down Engine Blues (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 3:56
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    05 Nobody's Fault But Mine (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 4:11
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    06 Preaching The Blues (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 4:36
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    07 Haul Away Joe - In The Pines (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 5:19
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    08 Bad Weather (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 3:54
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    09 Statesboro Blues (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 3:19
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    10 Rolling And Tumbling (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 3:56
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    11 The Gallows Pole (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 4:08
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    12 When You Got A Good Friend (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 3:31
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    13 Coal Black Mattie (SS Mastered 10-2-23) 3:50
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Photographer: Chuck Bradley. Click on image to download.

DEBUT ALBUM 'SIT TIGHT' out March 2023

Dom Turner’s new venture The Rural Blues Project hybridises and arranges 20th Century rural blues music from artists such as Lead Belly, Fred McDowell and Robert Johnson, and breathing new life for 21st century audiences.     

Multi award winning Australian artist, Dom Turner is best known as guitarist, lead vocalist, and founding member of the iconic Australian blues group, Backsliders as well as other international collaborations including R.L. Boyce with Dom Turner, The Turner Brown Band and Phil Wiggins & Dom Turner. Dom has toured the Australian festival circuit since the 1980s and regularly appears at most major, blues-related music festivals including Bluesfest, Woodford Folk Festival and Blues on Broadbeach to name but a few. He is a regular visitor to the home of the blues, the USA performing at festivals including Augusta Blues Week in West Virginia, and the RL Boyce Picnic and the Otha Turner Goat Picnic in Mississippi. 

Joining Dom is legendary drummer Rosscoe Clarke (Foreday Riders, Cyril B Bunter) with occasional special guests.

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