For those of you not in the know, Supersonic Blues Machine will release their brand-new studio album Voodoo Nation on June 24th, 2022 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group.

Once again, the again features a reunion of some of the most exciting icons and names in blues: Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke), Eric Gales, Joe Louis Walker, Ana Popovic, Kirk Fletcher, King Solomon Hicks, Josh Smith and Sonny Landreth.

“The general discontent in the world at the moment is so widespread, we get told to embrace it because that’s life,” says bassist Fabrizio Grossi. “No, that’s not life,” he asserts. “It’s how we’re forced to live nowadays. Voodoo Nation refers to the times we’re living in, at least here in the States, but I guess the whole world can relate. We’re getting to the point where we’re living out life almost as Zombies. We’re little machines.”

But there is always hope, which is what Supersonic Blues Machine has always been about.

1. Money
2. Too Late
3. Coming Thru
4. You And Me (feat. King Solomon Hicks)
5. Get It Done (feat. Josh Smith)
6. 8 Ball Lucy (feat. Sonny Landreth)
7. Devil At The Doorstep (feat. Eric Gales)
8. Is It All (feat. Joe Louis Walker)
9. Do It Again (feat. Ana Popović)
10. I Will Let Go (feat. Kirk Fletcher)
11. Voodoo Nation
12. All Our Love (feat. Charlie Starr)

Opening on the drum-led rock euphoria of Money and the foot-pounding, hand-clapping, grooving down south slide guitar work of Too Late, they then back those up seamlessly with the pulsating, harmonica-driven Coming Thru, the reverberating funky blues rock of You And Me (featuring young Harlem blues-sensation King Solomon Hicks), the drum-led AOR of Get It Done (featuring blues guitarist Josh Smith), the rhythmic rock of 8 Ball Lucy (featuring Louisiana slide-god Sonny Landreth) and then we get the euphorically-charged, 8-minute long Devil At The Doorstep (featuring Eric Gales, whose recent album Crown was a #1 Blues Billboard hit and hasn’t been off my turntable for the past two months).

Up next is the gorgeously smooth, mid-tempo blues balladry of Is It All (featuring the legendary Joe Louis Walker) and the thunderous Do It Again (featuring the Serbian blues singer/guitarist Ana Popović), and they are in turn backed by the band’s trademark soulful blues sound comes to the fore on I Will Let Go (featuring blues guitarist Kirk Fletcher), the album coming to a close on the pounding blues rock of the title track Voodoo Nation and the inspirational, atmospherically-imbibed rootsy rock of All Our Love (featuring Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke).

At the core of the band is producer/bass player Fabrizio Grossi (Steve Vai, Alice Cooper, George Clinton, Slash) and drummer Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, Meat Loaf, Brandon Flowers, John Fogerty, Red Hot Chili Peppers) with British rocker Kris Barras replacing Lance Lopez as singer-guitarist.

Barras has a recent UK Top 30 album chart hit in March himself, and he is leading the pack of the British hard rock revival with several A-list singles, BBC Radio appearances and sell-out shows.

Voodoo Nation is the band’s third studio album. “Kris comes from this British school of hard rock and blues,” Grossi says. “This is a different sound to Kenny and me with the Allman Brothers, Sly Stone & The Family & Mountain. On Californisoul (2017), we were going more West Coast Funkadelic 60s and overall jam vibe. Blues but with more of a hippy flower power. With Kris, we wanted his footprint there, so that’s why you hear Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Gary Moore. Kind of a Union Jack imprint over a Star-Spangled Banner.”

The lyrical front on Voodoo Nation is less forgiving than everything in the past. “I’m not saying fuck flower power because that’s always the message,” Grossi says. “But there are very introspective things and a lot of the theatrics that we are dealing with on this record which I would say are fairly common in the blues but are dealt with a twist. There is a lot of Devil’s stuff in this record.”

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