Eddie 9V - Little Black Flies (180g Vinyl) - price reduced
Product no.: 2071B
Description
Release Date: May 2021
All his life, Eddie 9-volt has acted on instinct. Aged just 15, this old-soul artist turned away from the path of college and jobs to burst all guns blazing onto the blues club circuit of his native Atlanta, Georgia. Flash forward to 2019, and for his debut album, Left My Soul In Memphis, the prodigious multi-instrumentalist simply powered up the amps in his mobile trailer and with his brother/co-writer/producer, Lane Kelly, laid down one of the year’s breakout releases, acclaimed as “fresh and life-affirming” by Rock & Blues Muse. “Memphis was a total side project,” shrugs Eddie, “that ended up taking off.”
Now, released in 2021 on Ruf Records, Little Black Flies is the 24-year-old’s most impulsive move to date. Tracked live in Atlanta’s Echo Deco Studios through November 2020, once again with Lane turning the knobs, plus a who’s who of the state’s best musicians (including guitar icon Cody Matlock), it’s an album that Eddie planned to feel like it’s unfolding right in front of you – right down to the clink of bottles and loose studio banter.
With Little Black Flies, there’s a sense of an artist coming full circle: the kid who once loitered outside the clubs of Atlanta now leading Georgia’s greatest players into the studio. Certainly, these recordings gave much-needed catharsis to the musicians who created them. But perhaps Eddie’s ultimate aim is to pass that spirit on to everyone who hears the record. “It makes my day to please someone after they work all day,” he says. “My job is to make them smile and let the music make them forget – or remember.”
TRACK LIST
SIDE A
001
Little Black Flies
00:03:12
002
She Got Some Money
00:03:02
003
Dog Me Around
00:02:56
004
Don’t Come Around This House
00:06:06
005
Travelin’ Man
00:03:01
006
Columbus Zoo Blues
00:05:06
SIDE B
007
3AM In Chicago
00:03:36
008
Reach Into Your Heart
00:05:05
009
Miss James
00:04:06
010
Back On My Feet
00:03:24
011
Puttin’ The Kids To Bed
00:03:43
012
You Don’t Have To Go
00:04:21