The Screwtop Sommeliers
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2017
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Acoustic rural blues and Americana music done by three masters of their sound: Ned Bolle on guitar and vocals, Toby Soriero on 6 and 12 string guitars and Joey Pafumi playing percussion. Joey is on loan from the always on the road Paul Nelson Band.
The instrumental; self-written ‘Bogged Down’ features great mid-song slide riffs by Ned. ‘Mercury Blues’ is a more up-tempo rollicking rocker featuring his great finger picking and growling voice. Something you might hear in a coffeehouse in Memphis. Rustic and rural at its best. I really dig Ned’s composition ‘Got No Spoons;’ a really, really good acoustic blues rocker. ‘Through the Notch’ is another captivating rural Americana instrumental blues ballad featuring Bolle’s creative chops. And he closes this cd with two cuts from his electric ‘Mean Old Fireman’ album: an unplugged version of ‘Mean Old Fireman’ and his slide guitar genuflecting in ‘Amazing Grace/Gulf Of Slides.’ Recorded at The Bridge Sound and Stage (Formerly Ft. Apache Studios) in Cambridge, MA and produced and engineered by Ned, Toby and Alex Allinson, I really dig this release and so will you! - A.J. Wachtel
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“Uncorked” is the debut EP by the Screwtop Sommeliers. The six-track collection captures the organic live sound of the acoustic duo.
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Like cruising in a deuce and a quarter down the fresh asphalt of a brand-new highway, the Screwtop Sommeliers take the blues into new territory.
Coming of age in the era of album-oriented rock, Ned Bollé (Slide, Vocals) and Toby Soriero (Guitar, Slide) understood the foundation of the music they were hearing was the blues. So, the quest began; marry electric soul heard on the front stoops and acoustic blues from the back porches and curate those rhythms, sounds and stories with their own tone into the next phase of the blues.
Paying homage to the trailblazers by continuing to break new ground.
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