GEOFF JARDINE: Once was a Big Man

Geoff Jardine

Once was a Big Man

© 2007 Geoff Jardine (778591718023)

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What do you get when you mix Nova Scotia fog with Mississippi mud, California boogie and British Blues? You get the Electric Blues sound of Geoff Jardine's debut album.

tracks

1 Boogie Through The Years
2 It's About Time
3 Lonely Lonely Lonely
4 High Steppin' Woman
5 Rough Dried Woman (pt 1)
6 Gutter Song
7 Ready to Ride
8 Something Inside of Me
9 Gotta Past People
10 Pay the Price
11 Santa Cruz
12 Once Was a Big Man

notes

Bio for Geoff Jardine
On the release of his new CD “Once was a Big Man”

I am a Bluenoser from Nova Scotia born in CAPE BRETON and raised in Halifax.

By 15 or 16 I sat in on my younger brother (Ainslie } A.J.’s drum kit. Ainslie would later go on and play with Dutch Mason’s Blues band for 23 years. It was around this time there was a group of friends in our community and we hung out and played music together. I met whom I call my partner of foolishness Paul McNeill who played bass.He wrote 6 songs on the CD. We were into everything you could imagine in the 60’s and 70’s. We played and jammed together throughout the years. I played drums for many years with many different styles, recorded and toured a bit. I have played drums, taught drums and sold drums for over 30 years. Blah Blah Blah .But it always comes back to the blues for me. I had been drinking for years and have been battling addiction for a long, long time. I still do. One thing that I learned is you can’t play when you are drunk.. So I fight to stay sober. You might say I have the Blues. And I still borrow my Brother’s drum kit. I pawned my set.

I sing all the songs on the CD. I am not a crooner thats for sure but I sure as hell feel what I sing. As John Lee Hooker said the blues is in him and it gotta come out. I think that applies to me as well.

This is a Blues CD although the title track has a blues/country feel. There is a boogie, some shuffles, some slow blues and some funky blues. There are 8 original songs on the CD and 4 cover songs. I had had great friends Paul McNeill (bass), Bruce Timmins (guitars), Jerry Carruthers (keyboards), Phil Potvin (harmonica), Dave MacIssac (guitar and Fiddle), Roger Howse (guitar) and my Brother A.J.(drums) help me by “let’n’er rip”. Blaine Morrison , radio host of the Atlantic Canada syndicated Blues Program “the Bluesown”, calls this “a stellar line-up”.

I wanted solid blues grooves, good lyrics and Truthful vocals and lots of opportunity for lead lines over the top of the groove. When I am asked to describe the music or whom it sounds like, I say it is like Little Feat backing Elmore James in Big Bras D’Or.

So there it is ONCE WAS A BIG MAN. GEOFF JARDINE



Website : www.geoffjardine.ca
Email : geoffjardine@hotmail.com
Phone : 902-252-0013

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