Lol Goodman Band “Just Wanna Say” there’s a third album

Lol Goodman Band
James Horrocks

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Local blues cats the Lol Goodman Band drew in a large Rochdale crowd last night (Thursday 21 April) as they filled a key Manchester venue to launch their third album.

The four-piece jazz and blues band took to the stage at Cottonopolis in the city centre, where they filled the room with deep bluesy vibes and hooked the crowd for their entire set.

Rochdale born keyboard player Phil Barrett was partially concealed in the corner of the stage, but his presence was loud and clear when he began to play his speedy, hearty keys on the striking new songs.

Bass player James Horrocks may be a doctor at Rochdale’s Wellfield Health Centre, but showed another side with his superb earthy bass notes.

The new album, titled “Just Wanna Say”, includes 10 of Lol Goodman’s latest creations.

The album was recorded at Spodden Mill in Whitworth, with Lol Goodman on guitar and vocals, Jon Firth on drums, Phil Barrett on guitar, keyboard and Hammond organ, and James Horrocks on bass.

The band’s first two albums, “Old Dogs ‘n’ Licks” and “Tautology” were both so well received that it prompted the band to record this third album, “Just Wanna Say”, which they said “goes much further in saying what we want to achieve in the blues genre”.

The gig was supported by local musician Kevin Farrell who built the crowd up with his guitar numbers.

The Lol Goodman Band has existed in varied formats and with various musicians for nearly twenty years. For fifteen of those years James Horrocks has been an almost constant member either on second lead guitar or bass guitar.

The addition five years ago of drummer, Jon Firth meant that Lol could continue to deliver the kind of sound and feel first formed in the towns and cities of the US and adopted by the great British bands of the late 60s and early 70s.

The band regularly works the clubs, pubs and festivals of, mainly, the North of England performing their brand of gritty blues.

For more information, visit:

http://www.lolgoodmanband.com