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In 2012, guitarist and singer Dai Price and double bassist Rupert Gillett were jamming in one of South-East London's grubbier boozers when accordionist Alan Dunn and fiddler Bob Loveday asked if they could join in. Lo and behold, Dai & The Ramblers were born.
A year or so later, the band were asked to play a gig in ex Thin Lizzy manager Ted Carroll's back garden. Excited by what he heard, Ted suggested hooking them up with Grammy Award-winning producer Liam Watson to record their debut album at Toe Rag studios in Hackney. Over three days in the studio, it wasn't hard to bottle their gutsy home-grown folk 'n' blues sound. They kept it simple: four musicians, a handful of mics and no fussing around.
As lead singer Dai Price recalls, "we went into the sessions with a 'one man, one voice' approach, by which I mean that the record should be exactly like what you'd get at one of our gigs. We're a hard-working band, and we've played loads of gigs together, so we knew we had the musical telepathy to get something real and raw on tape, without the need for overdubs.
Despite the tube-driven analogue sound of the album and a somewhat old-fashioned approach to making a record, ‘Duw Duw’ is no exercise in nostalgia. As well as tackling 50s classics by the likes of Lieber and Stoller, Dai & The Ramblers offer a fresh interpretation of Freddie Hubbard's classic ‘Little Sunflower’ as well as a generous helping of Dai's own folk and zydeco-inspired compositions.
Just about as good as it gets. One of the best bands I've seen, in over 50 years” Ted Carroll ~ Ace Records
track listing
1. THE CHICKEN AND THE HAWK
2. STONES IN MY SHOES
3. IKO IKO
4. CALICO SUE
5. LITTLE SUNFLOWER
6. WAY DOWN IN THE HOLE
7. SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
8. SUGAR BEE
9. EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY
10. THE WEIGHT
11. WHAT'D I SAY
