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New Recording Biography Discography Line up Gigs Link to label site Link to Boyd's site |
| NEW RECORDING - BOYD SMALL'S "DIAMOND BOY" |
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Featuring the best blues guitarists Portland, Oregon, USA has to offer this cd is a must for blues guitar lovers.
It was recorded studio live in Portland , Oregon August 1st 2006 in the middle of a heat wave. You can hear the steam coming off the fretboards.
Ex-patriot and Portland native Boyd Small returned to the great northwest and rounded up the cream of the crop.
Boyd plays drums and sings. Willy Barber (Lloyd Jones band) plays bass . On guitars are Monti Amundson, Peter Damman (Paul Delay Band), Josh Fulero (Curtis Salgado Band) and Lloyd Jones.
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Frontman Boyd Small was a local hero in the Portland area as singer/drummer of the Terraplanes for 11 years. He drummed with Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Jimmy Rogers, Hubert Sumlin, Guitar Shorty and Pinetop Perkins to name a few.(Read about Boyd in Oregon, USA here.) After touring Europe with Monti Amundson in 1997 he moved to Amsterdam and co-founded Amsterdam based alternative roots and modern blues label "Cool Buzz". While working with Cool Buzz he co- produced several CDs for American and Dutch artists including Monti Amundson, Jim Wallace, Drippin' Honey and The Cuban Heels . Besides doing shows with his band throughout Europe in the last few years Boyd Small has worked with Black and Tan recording artists such as Byther Smith (Chicago, Ill.), Big George Jackson (Chicago, Ill.) and Billy Jones (Arks.) doing what he does best playing drums and singing. 2005 brought on a new collaboration project entitled "Somebody's Happened To Our Love" with fellow Portland , Oregon native Monti Amundson. Produced by Boyd and Monti for Rounder Europe it features Boyd writing and singing half the songs on the cd. He also recorded three critically acclaimed albums including two with the 9-piece Boyd Small band titled "This Time No Lies" and "So Easy". He recorded one with his 4 piece band titled "Boyd Small Four + One". Recently he released his CD "Diamond Boy" recorded in the states, mixed in Holland. It's NOW Baby! |
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 Glad Rags. Diamond Boy. Lemon Squeezer. Whipping Boy. Look Don't Touch. |
Diamond Boy (Me and my Blues/Rounder Europe, 2007) While doing a promotional tour in the northwest USA for this cd Boyd arranged a session featuring the best blues musicians the great northwest has to offer. All long time friends and colleagues from this rich local blues scene the credits read like a who's who of Portland. The guitarists are Peter Damman (Paul Delay Band), Josh Fulero (Curtis Salgado Band), Lloyd Jones (Lloyd Jones Struggle), Monti Amundson (Blubinos) and on the bass Boyd's long time groove partner Willy Barber who has played and still plays with them all. This recording is Boyd Small at his best. Singing lead and playing drums on all the songs while directing the band through a live session of freshly penned originals and covering a few of his favourites never before captured so brilliantly. Recorded in Portland , Oregon, August 2006 and mixed in Amsterdam , Holland just 2 weeks later this is a fresh disc you don't want to wait to spin. |
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 Here come the tears. I want you. Daddy Rolling Stone. |
Four + One (Coolbuzz, 2003) Boyd Small Four plus One is the latest project of American born Amsterdam based singer/drummer/songwriter Boyd Small. Put great singers who are also songwriters together in a room and you'd expect to get something where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts: Boyd Small "Four Plus One" ! This beautiful blues album to spin on a sultry summernight contains all American roots music. The combination of superb orginals and covers that the band made their own leads to an inimitable mix. From J. J. Mallone's "Daddy Rollin' Stone" through Marc Thijs' "Easy Bait" to Boyd's "The Big Man's Eyes" the underlying message is the same - Blues - or what it ought to be these days. His new blues album would be perfect for a sultry summer night. It features four great singers and musicians who team up to make the whole of the band greater than the sum of it's parts: Four Plus One! On "Four plus One" CD three other great musicians join Boyd. Guitarplayer/singer Marc Thijs hails from Belgium where he is known as frontman of the Electric Kings and TEE. He is a living legend in the Belgian blues scene and recently toured with James Harman and Johnny Dyer. Dutchman Jasper Mortier layed down the bottom end for such blues greats as Philip Walker, Eddy Clearwater, Boo Boo Davis and Monti Amundson and was a bandmember of the Boyd Small band and Sugarcane. The New York harp virtuoso and natural born singer G.V. Reit can only be described as "Mr. Right." |
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 Jungle Law. Too Down For The Fight. |
So Easy (coolbuzz/Munich, 2001) |
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 This Time No Lies. 110lbs. Good News. |
This Time No Lies (coolbuzz/Munich, 1998) |
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