The Sound:
Tim Royce: guitar, vocals; A regular figure on the London blues scene fronting the
eight-piece brass powered Close Enough (For Blues) and sister outfit Sunday Joint
for eleven years, he left them in summer '99 to go another route. Now gaining a growing
following in and around London and the South with his own material ("writing to the
standard of the classics...an authentic and contemporary sound." - Blueprint) and
unusual and original arrangements of blues from the twenties to today.
Working in a duo format with Reg Edwards (double bass), his preferred weapons are
an ancient Gibson flat-top and one of those trendy metal-fronted things; in the band,
supplemented by Gary Foote on drums and Ian Nuttall on harmonic, he favours a battered
Tele Custom and some home-made weird almost-guitar ("six quid in a charity shop").
The music's a highly individual mix of delta blues, Chicago RnB, country, jug and
whatever else comes to hand and fits in, and makes for a refreshing departure from
the current infatuation with that SRV/Texas rock sound. Blueprint again - "a ferociously
effective guitarist/singer playing very fine blues, ragtime and slide - fretboard
wizardry of the very highest quality."
Try Before You Buy:
All tracks © 1999 Tim Royce, from the album The Devil Made Me Do It. Now go to the
contact page (or a gig) and buy it!
STOP PRESS!
I’ve been living in Devon for the last 18 months, and got a stomping new band together
- go see www.thekingroosters.co.uk
