Burning Bright Laura Cox Band

• 1 Fire Fire 03:52
• 2 Bad Luck Blues 03:15
• 3 Last Breakdown 03:52
• 4 Looking Upside Down 04:10
• 5 Just Another Game 04:44
• 6 Here's to War 04:05
• 7 Freaking Out Loud 03:20
• 8 As I Am 04:44
• 9 River 04:54
• 10 Letters to the Otherside 04:06
• Total Runtime 41:02

Info for Burning Bright

Halb Englisch, halb Französisch, 100 % Rock‘n’Roll - Laura Cox ist genau das was sie verspricht zu sein: eine „Badass Rock´n´Roll Lady“, die mit ihrer Gitarre Sounds produziert, die die Welt in einer bahnbrechenden Art und Weise zum Beben bringen. Damit hat sie sich selbst in die Rangliste der größten weiblichen Gitarristinnen katapultiert, und gibt es denn ernsthaft etwas cooleres als in einem Atemzug mit Nancy Wilson (Heart), Nita Strauss (Alice Cooper), The Runaways oder Joan genannt zu werden, nur um ein paar davon zu nennen.

Das Album „Burning Bright” ist „high voltage rock´n´ roll” im Stil von AC/DC und Danko Jones meets Joan Jett, gemischt mit Southern und Blues Einflüssen. Deshalb definiert Laura selbst ihren Style als „Southern Hard Blues” – ein Mix aus Genres und Bands mit denen sie aufwuchs. „Burning Bright” wurde in den legendären ICP Studios (Johnny Hallyday, The Cure, Vanessa Paradis, Solomon Burke) aufgenommen. Mit einer makellosen Band als Backup, und dem Mastering des großartigen Howie Weinberg (Aerosmith, Oasis, The White Stripes), ist es versehen mit 10 Blues, Classic Rock und Hard Rock Bomben!

"Gediegener Heavy Blues Rock zwischen mittlerer Beth Hart und Ana Popovic zu mehr oder weniger allen Zeiten - LAURA COX kommt auf "Burning Bright" daher wie ein weiblicher Joe Bonamassa ohne den Drang "nicht-blaue" Experimente zu wagen." (Musikreview, Andreas Schiffmann)

Laura Cox, Solo-Gitarre, Gesang
Mathieu Albiac, Gitarre, Hintergrunggesang
François C. Delacoudre, Bass, Hintergrunggesang
Antonin Guérin, Schlagzeug

Laura Cox
started posting her guitar solos on Youtube in 2008, and has since become one of the best-known girl guitar players on Internet. Laura is a rare blend of twenty-first century talent and traditional musical values, and she was among the first to work using 2.0 tools, mainly Youtube. The figures alone are impressive: more than 47 million views and 200 000 subscribers on Youtube, more than 140 000 « Likes » on her Facebook page, since it was created in 2013.

Right from birth, Laura’s cradle songs were played by The Band, ZZ Top, Johnny Cash, Dire Straits and so many others, plus Roger McGuinn’s Rickenbacker of course. She grew up discovering all this country, folk and rock culture from her English father... Laura started playing the guitar relatively late, in 2005, at 14 years old, and soon acquired a following on the Net, through her early cover versions of a few great rock classics and mythical solos. She was so pleased and excited to be complimented by blues living-legend, Joe Bonamassa.

But Laura had an increasing desire to play rock & roll live, the way it should be, and to get on the road, so she decided to make the change from « virtual » to « real », and form her own group.

At this point, Laura met Mathieu Albiac, another young and talented guitarist, with similar musical passions. In 2013, the two of them formed The Laura Cox Band, based in the Paris region, and the project was born... They were a little bit lost in what is certainly a very different French musical scene. They always prefer a good heavy riff to « trendy » (this week!) pop, and they wanted to devote their musical talents to creating a sound that’s becoming increasingly rare in France: pure classic and southern rock.

In 2014, they recorded their first single « Cowboys & Beer », a country rock song, written by Laura and Mat, that won them invitations to a few festivals, such as Equiblues or Montereau Confluences, where they played on the same bill as Simple Minds, Triggerfinger and Crucified Barbara (not to mention Boy George!).

The line-up changed in 2015 and is now Laura Cox (guitar / vocals), Mathieu Albiac (guitar), François C. Delacoudre (bass) and Antonin Guérin (drums). The band is finally complete, with talented and very complementary musicians who are proud of their music, and are going into 2016 with so many projects: album, clips, concerts, and more...

Rather than remain in just one kind of music, The Laura Cox Band likes to surprise its fans with subtle changes in style. Too bad for those who think that groups should fit into categories: here, we’re sometimes into rockin’ country, and sometimes the style varies all the way to heavy, classic rock. Somewhere between AC/DC, ZZ Top, Aerosmith and Blackberry Smoke, the group blends the sharp Southern States sound with the saturated watts of Australian fury.

To put it briefly, the Laura Cox Band is old alcoholic rockers’ music, played by a young French group in great shape... but they’re working on it... Country, blues, southern rock, hard rock... that’s what they like to mix, depending on their feelings. But if you still need to put a name to their style, it could probably be called Southern Hard Blues.

The Laura Cox Band is well aware of being a little bit outside the current French scene, but they want to build on that difference and make it a strength, and just continue playing the music that they love: classic and southern rock in its purest form.

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