Self-styled ‘devilboy’ Eddie Turner dishes up a heady brew of spooked-up blues on the perfectly titled “Miracles and Demons” (Northernblues music). This is thoroughly 21st century stuff, showcasing Turner’s exceptional, evocative and always expressive guitar playing which sees him cast as voodoo child exploring the soulful, the funky and the psychedlic with razor-sharp attitude.

Confidence oozes throughout in what is an ultra-clean sounding recording, produced by Kenny Passarelli who fills in with gorgeous keyboards to produce a truly atmospheric affair.

Check out the original and inspired “Blues Fall Down Like Rain” for a perfect sample of the Turner manifesto. Funky scratch guitar heralds a sudden crashing and insistent drum backing underpinning Tunrer’s soulful vocal which soon interplays with thoughtful guitar phrasing, full of slide and harmonics.

A colleague suggested Turner can’t make his mind up whether he wants to be a Delta blues player or Prince.  He is certainly is a showman but he pulls it all off with swaggering aplomb.

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