Album review: JFK Blue - ROUGH ROUND THE EDGES
getreadytorock.me.uk June 8, 2017 by petefeenstra ‘Rough Around The Edges’ is an impressive debut album with plenty of depth. It’s born of 11 strong and original tracks that jump out the grooves on the back of emotive vocals and fine band interplay, topped by tasteful solos. The album title probably carries more truth than the band would like, but not in a negative way. They tread a thin line between pursuing original songcraft with a live in the studio approach that gives
JFK Blue Live Gig - Tuesday Night Music Club
It’s always difficult to follow such a well received set - it’s almost as if the gauntlet has been thrown down. But follow it JFK Blue did and with some style as they tore through numbers from their debut album, ‘Rough Round The Edges’ and some new songs. This was, it seemed, a band on a mission. Ably fronted by on guitars and vocals the pace was frantic from the off but amazingly just built and built. Sol Ezra and Leslie Fleischman held down the back line with Sol also contr
JFK Blue Live Gig Review- Blues At The Woodlands Gillingam Kent '18
We welcomed this new band to the club where our audience are pretty knowledgeable and appreciate really good music . JFK Blue thoroughly entertained and delighted us all with 2 full sets of high intensity music either side of an interval. On this night they were down to a 4 piece as their keyboard player had to fly home to Latvia urgently. They played for the best part of the gig their own original music taken from Rough Round The Edges their last album and some new track
EP Review: Out Of The Blue by JFK Blue Anne Estella Down The Front Magazine
Hot on the heels of their 2017 debut album, 'Rough Round The Edges', London collective JFK BLUE have returned with their second release, entitled 'Out Of The Blue'. Kicking off the 4-track EP, opener ‘Innocent Killer’ makes its uplifting, hook-laden presence felt with a driving bluesy dynamic, incorporating lengthy, jazzy swathes of psychedelic synths and keyboards into some passages, with scorching hard rock riffage rampantly injected into others. The unpredictable, shapeshi
