The sound of this record is what we’ve come to expect from Rick.   Stripped back, raw and nothing but balls against the wall.   It’s an immensely pure album in a sense that it embodies what Rock music is and should be about, the essence of humanity.   You can feel that there’s only people making music on this record.   Nothing is fake, nothing is digital.   The sound retains its human element and thus, hits you where it matters.

Rick Shaffer is as gritty as they come.   His vocal delivery on this record is superb and shows just how it’s done.   He nails that old school, ‘Howlin’ Wolf’ vocal groove with no trouble at all, giving his music a distinct characteristic.  Shaffer’s instrumental abilities are also second to none.   The guitar work is tight, twangy and plucked with feeling whilst the rhythmic section is solid, meaty and ballsy.

If you dig the tunes of Southern music, Jack White, The Black Keys or Early Rolling Stones, give Rick Shaffer a listen.  His pure stance on Rock n’ Roll will have you movin’ and shakin’ in no time.

MONOLITH-SOUND

Stacked Deck CD’s or mp3′s can be purchased HERE.

Written and produced by Shaffer, he continues the “sonic minimalist” blueprint of his previous solo albums.

The sound combines hard fuzz guitar driven garage-blues, a blues edged two step, lazy insistent rolling beat, new colors in the harmonica and spoons style percussion, along with an unadorned and unaffected blues narrative.

Click on the song title to get a free download of track 7, “Cool Treatment“ via SoundCloud.

To purchase a Stacked Deck CD or mp3′s click HERE!

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Fans of Big Fun 3 will enjoy Bruce Cohen’s new album, Big Fun 3.2, that features two new additions to the trio.  Peter “Babe” Lucas is now on guitar, and Tony Foster is  now in charge of the rock steady drum groove, while Cohen contributes his songs and style on Hammond Organ and mellotron.

The production is harder and heavier than the first album, yet more melodic and musical at the same time.  The seven tracks of swinging, hard grooves, also offer fuzz guitar and heavy organ interplay flowing in and out as if in battle.

The album is on Ropeadope Records, with cover artwork by Dan Weihnacht.

You can buy Big Fun 3.2 downloads on iTunes.

El Cee Productions

Award winning writer/director/cinematographer, Lamont Pierré, along with writers Chris Saunders and Geno Brooks, have created a controversial and successful crime drama about three masculine black gay men who are involved in a life of crime, while dealing with the trials of their personal relationships.

Two of the licensed songs are, Ringing The Bell, from The Reds© album, Fugitives From The Laughing House, and We’re On, an instrumental from Tarock’s music library also by Reds members,  Rick Shaffer and Bruce Cohen.  The third song, Death In Venice, is from Cohen’s first solo album, One BC.

Grand Benders is an original docu-soap that follows the exploits of the Rapaport family — Mickey, Nancy and Justin — owners of Cocos, a one-of-a-kind hotel, nightclub, restaurant and bar located along the strip in Grand Bend, Ontario.  Season 2 premieres  mid-May 2013.

“This Way” is track 2 on Bruce Cohen’s second solo album, Two BC.  To purchase a CD or mp3′s click ► HERE!