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Backsliders

Australia’s favourite blues group bring their ‘delta blues wall of sound’ to East Coast venues and festivals with new album: Starvation Box

Praise for Backsliders:  “Without dispute the best blues band in Australia. Their material is impeccable and their musicianship is a wonder to behold.” Sydney Morning Herald

“Australia’s top blues act…” Rhythms Magazine

“Move over Jon Spencer, Dom Turner’s blues explosion has come of age.” Drum Media

Fans of blistering live blues music take note: Australia’s foremost, iconic blues group Backsliders are about to release a stunning new CD and hit the road for a string of live Australian east coast dates.

Named by Doug Mulray in 2003 as “the best acoustic blues band in the country”, and with an abundance of career awards including ‘Band of the Year’ (Rolling Stone), ‘Best Live Australian Blues Act’ (Blues on Air Magazine) and ‘Blues Album of the Year’ (Rhythms Magazine), Backsliders are leaders and virtual pioneers in their own genre: the ‘delta-blues wall of sound’.

Live in concert, the band are a force to be reckoned with, fiercely blending an amped up authentic, original blues style, along with their evocative, unplugged ‘deep south’ acoustic delta blues mode. Backsliders feature guitarist/ vocalist, founding member and key songwriter Dom Turner plus drum and percussion virtuoso Rob Hirst (Midnight Oil, Ghostwriters etc). The band have notched up 25 years experience serving up the finest, meanest acoustic-based blues, starting out before “blues and roots” was a well-known term in the Australian music industry.

The new 2011 Backsliders album, Starvation Box, will be released via Fuse Records on August 12, available in all good record stores and online. Recorded in another former Midnight Oil member Jim Moginie’s studio, Oceanic Studios on Sydney’s northern beaches, Starvation Box is an affectionate nod the band’s past heroes containing five