AUSTRALIAN blues legends the Backsliders will play The V Room at Villa Noosa on Friday 7 October as part of the Making of Midnight Oil exhibition at Noosa Regional Gallery.
Their latest album Heathen Songbook, which was released to critical acclaim, is a collection of driving Delta and Mississippi Hill country blues sounds with original 21st century new blues anthems with Australian overtones.
Dom Turner, Rob Hirst and Joe Glover will play tracks from the new album as well as songs from their 30-year history.
“A Backsliders show is like no other. Far from the Mississippi Delta, they took us to the water’s edge ‘til we felt the riverbed beneath our feet,” reviewed Rhythms Magazine.
2011 ARIA Blues and Roots nominees and I-Tunes Australian Blues and Roots album of the year winners, the Backsliders have been playing, touring the festival circuit and recording for more than 30 years.
These guys are renowned for captivating live shows – an eclectic mix of blues styles moving from driving delta blues riffs and jungle-like rhythms to Piedmont blues influenced all-acoustic unplugged treatments of 1920s songs by blues heroes such as Mississippi Fred McDowell and Robert Johnson.
Pre-sold tickets are available at Moshtix on www.moshtix.com.au.
