Title - Navigation Blues
Artist - Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado
The brand new, and now eighth, full length album from Denmark’s premier roots-rockers Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado is out now. Entitled Navigation Blues, the septet has blazed a trail across Scandinavia, Europe, Canada, the US and Asia for the past twenty years and have been captivating crowds with their dynamic stage presence.
With a sound that fuses soul, Chicago blues, boogie and rock ’n’ roll with a voice where Ray Charles, Van Morrison and Billy Gibbons meet in the middle, they’ve brought dancing shoes to Europe’s largest festival stages and low-light noir-ish blues to Jazz clubs around the globe.
1. Navigation Blues
2. Watch the Sun Go Down
3. The Way You Make Me Feel
4. Fire Inside
5. Blue Lullaby
6. Taking the Good with the Bad
7. Whatever Price
8. Time
9. Something to Hold On To
10. Hoodoo Lover
11. Headed for the Stars
12. Heart Crash
This resonating new album from Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado opens on the low slung, dirty Deep South blues of the titular Navigation Blues and then pairs that with the lighter, electric, yet subtle foot-tapper Watch the Sun Go Down, and then we get the acoustic-imbued The Way You Make Me Feel, the rocker Fire Inside and then comes the acoustic brilliance of the beautifully melodic Blue Lullaby.
Up next is the vintage-sounding, dance floor rock within Taking the Good with the Bad and then the piano-led, banjo-imbibed, finger-snapping delights of Whatever Price are brought forth and they are backed by the finger-picking guitar work of the mid-tempo Time, then we get the earthy, gutsy acoustic rock yearn within Something to Hold On To, the upbeat, perky, slightly flirtatious Hoodoo Lover, the album rounding out on the rock steady Headed for the Stars, closing on the low key, Americana-Folk approach found within acoustic Heart Crash.
In closing, Navigation Blues boasts compelling melodies, catchy guitar riffs, and on most of the 12 tracks, a rich, expansive sound with strings, horns and backing singers. All with Thorbjørn Risager at the helm who Dan Akroyd said has “a great voice, great delivery and feels the blues.”
Produced by Søren Bøjgaard, Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado, all songs on Navigation Blues were written by Thorbjørn Risager except three co-writes with Joachim Svensmark.
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Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado - Navigation Blues (Official Music Video)
Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado - The Way You Make Me Feel (Official Music Video)
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