Gig - Kris Dollimore

The blurb on Kris Dollimore’s brilliant website tells us about his recent debut album release, (it’s called ‘02/01/78’), and a lot about the man who wrote it. “It may well fall into the category of blues, for those who like to pigeonhole things, but more than that, it is a truly human record,” it reads. “You see the Mississippi isn’t the only river, or the only delta. Cotton isn’t the only crop. For that matter Chicago isn’t the only urban space. The late, great Eddie ‘Son’ House once said that there is only one kind of blues, that that occurs between a man and a woman. While this is debatable, it is certainly true that the blues has always contained universal truths.”
 
“Kris Dollimore,” it continues, “isn’t from Mississippipi, Chicago, Detroit, Georgia, Tennessee, or even Texas. But the haunting drive of his country blues, driven by the insistent stomp of his left foot is no less ‘authentic’. This music is real. Kris was born to the swampy marshes of the Medway delta, and the rural isolation of the Isle of Sheppey on the estuary, growing up in the late 60’s and early 70’s listening to the sounds of the British blues revival. Clapton, Beck, Page, and Richards, and so back to Muddy, John Lee and the ever present figure of Robert Johnson.” He’s played alongside the likes of Del Amitri, The Damned and Adam Ant, but prefers going it alone. He writes most of his own stuff. It’s said to be haunting, poignant and very much of its surroundings. Sounds intriguing. DL