Track Listing

1. Sugar Rush
2. Revelator
3. Butter-Side Up
4. Drowned My Sorrows (But They Learned How To Swim)
5. Work
6. Brand Balloon
7. She Got The Devil In Her/I Gotta Try You Baby
8. Bloodshot
9. Falling On Down Again
10. Magdalena
11. Meat And Potatoes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26173 in Music
• Released on: 2005-07-07
• Number of discs: 1

Ian Brown - Blues4ever
Ian Siegal is without doubt THE most talented musician/songwriter to emerge on the British blues scene in recent years.

Jeff Beck
Closest thing heard to Chester Burnett!

Ronnie Wood
My Man! - we're from the same school!

Customer Reviews

Snortin' whiskey!
Have to say there's not many current Blues artists around today that really cook...and I mean c-o-o-k. Ian Siegal is one of those horribly blessed individuals who not only can play guitar like it was an extention of his hands, but can also sing like a white greaser version of Howling Wolf. The album is genius. The man is genius.

If you're ever in London make sure to visit Ain't Nothing But The Blues Bar when Ian is playing...you'll be blown away by Britain's true blues God.

Siegal flies high
This is a great album. I saw Ian Siegal at my local blues club (Running Horse, Nottingham) several years ago, and he put on a really good show. For some reason, i never bothered going to see him again, although i had enough chances, but when i noticed a poster at said venue promoting his new album, i thought i'd give it a try. It was definitely the right choice. As far as i know, this is Mr. Siegal's first 'proper' album. This is down and dirty blues sung by a voice with great character. He's somewhere along the lines of Van Morrison, at times Tom Waits, but with an old blues soul. He would, as has been said, be a star had he been born in the sixties, when talent mattered. Now he would have to change his name, don a stupid haircut, be able to dance, and cut his songs down to 3 minute powder puff to be such. Bit,i digress, this album is excellent. It's the best cd, for me, so far this year. Revelator (John The Apostle) is great, the lyrics are just fantastic, you'll just have to listen. It's John The Revelator of the 00's. Magdalena, Falling On Down Again (awesome singing on this one), She Got The Devil In Her (a Junior Kimbrough cover) and Butter-side Up are the standout tracks. But all the tracks are good, the title track is the weakest, but overall this is a quality blues album, sung by a quality blues drenched voice. Smooth, gritty, violent, dark, Siegal delivers.
Do yourself a favour and treat yourself, you might not buy a better album all year.

The darkest, meanest blues....
I purchased this cd on the back of "Swagger" which is a later offering & was absoluitely astounded by the quality & integrity of Ian Siegal's playing. Meat & Potatoes is absolutely immense however & is by far the best blues cd I've listened to in ages.

His vocals sound like Howlin Wolf at his meanest & his phrasing is right out of the gospel according to Paul Rodgers.

The whole band bristles with the kind of understated blues playing that is all too rare these days. I won't go through a track by track synopsis but would recommend this to anyone even remotely interested in the blues. The man is seriously talented!