Countin’ The Blues

by Elli de Mon

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Flavio Blues naturally flows within her soul Favorite track: Shave ‘Em Dry.

Charlie Hodgson A good blues album, I liked the variety in the tracks from the electric blues Prove it On Me to the more stripped down bare bones blues of trouble in mind but my favourite tracks were the more psychedelic and "eastern" sounding tracks Dope Head Blues and Last Kind Words. Favorite track: Dope Head Blues.

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1.	Prove It On Me Blues 02:57	buy track
2.	Blue Spirit Blues 03:44	buy track
3.	Downhearted Blues 03:48	buy track
4.	Shave ‘Em Dry 03:30	buy track
5.	Dope Head Blues 04:12	buy track
6.	Freight Train 02:56	buy track
7.	When The Leeve Breaks 03:23	buy track
8.	Wayward Girl Blues 03:11	buy track
9.	Trouble In Mind 03:31	buy track
10.	Last Kind Words 03:46	buy track

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Elli de Mon, for the best part of the past decade she’s been thrilling blues audiences across Europe with her unique take on the form. To say she’s a blues singer or blues guitarist is putting it waaay too simply: rezophonic guitar, drums, bells, voice and saturated sound – she is, in every sense, a real one woman band.
Strongly influenced by the primordial blues tradition (Bessie Smith, Fred Mc Dowell, Son House) crosshatched with primitive garage punk, Elli’s sound is shaped into a lysergic journey through her soul. Sharing stages with the likes of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Reverand Beatman and Cedric Burnside, she’s released six albums since 2014, most recently a split release with the wonderfully-named psych-blues trio Daily Thompson.
During her pregnancy Elli wrote a book about the women blues artists of the 20s. The book Countin’ The Blues: Indomitable Women was published in February 2020. Elli decided to record the songs that she wrote about in the book, in tribute to these great women, whose art has been forgotten by most.
Her first album for Area Pirata Records, Countin’ The Blues features ten songs: some, such as Elizabeth Cotten’s ‘Freight Train’ or Bessie Smith’s ‘Blue Spirit Blues’ might be considered standards.
But the album contains also some lost treasures, unearthed by Elli and brought back into the light of day.
Recorded at Lesder Studio, Treviso with engineer Tommaso Mantelli, Elli accompanied herself on guitar, lapsteel, organ, drums and sitar. She arranged the whole album in a new key, close to her personal punkish style. A modern Ma Rainey playing dirty rock‘n’roll!
Elli de Mon: guitars, lapsteel guitar, organ, sitar, dilruba, drums, vox.
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Giusi Pesenti: spoons on Wayward Girl Blues
Cover Photo: Denis Ulliana
Design: Riccardo Bucchioni

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released June 18, 2021

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Area Pirata was born in 2001 immediately tended to Garage, R'n'R, HC-Punk…
We care about reissue of old records no more available or unissued as well as new records recorded from bands on activities with an attitude alike ours.
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