All tracks taken from the Blue Bishop's new album "Deep". Recorded April 2000.    The copyright of  all recordings is owned by the The Blue Bishops. © 2001 The Blue Bishops, all rights reserved. Geoff Grange: Harmonica/Vocals Martin Turner: Bass Guitar Bob Sellins: Lead Guitar/Bass Vocals Simon Burrett: Vocals/Slide Guitar John Fisher: Drums/Percussion MP3 is the full album track and is encoded at 128 kbps stereo.  PC users on dial-up should right mouse click on the link and choose "save target as": "Highway 61 Revisited" Streaming Realaudio "Stop Breaking Down" Streaming Realaudio New - "Words Left Unsaid" Streaming Realaudio New - "Words Left Unsaid" MP3 (3.5 Mb's)"

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The Blue Bishops' bass player Martin Turner, with a little help from band mate Bob Sellins, produced this, the band's second CD. Turner was a founder member of seminal UK rockers Wishbone Ash, so it should come as no surprise that the Blue Bishops operate at the heavy end of the blues musical continuum. However, in case the notion of "British blues-rock", a genre not known for its lack of self-indulgent excess, brings out the heebie-jeebies in you, let it be said right away that the high quality musicianship shown here elevates Deep above the level normally attained by five ageing hippy Brit rockers blustering out their idea of the blues. To be sure in the PR blurb that accompanied the CD there's the sort of boast you don't get from many contemporary blues bands when it states that lead guitarist Bob Sellins and slide guitarist Simon Burrett "have written and produced music for radio commercials and video soundtracks on behalf of many British and international corporations." Occasionally, some of the intros here sound like the sort of incidental music heard on the last series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (the one where they re-built the bridge in Arizona). Momentarily, on tracks like, say, "Nothing to Say" and images of scenes like "Oz climbs out on girder to impress Native American construction workers" or "Dennis, Neville and Oz visit a whorehouse". However, these are but minor distractions. Geoff Grange on lead vocals and harmonica is a class act in his own right, while Simon Burrett's slide work, both electric and acoustic, is as good as it gets. Complementing their own lyrically witty songs like "Vinyl Heart" and "Bar Room Blues", the Bishops exhibit exemplary good taste in their choice of covers. They open the CD with a riveting, hurricane-force take on Robert Johnson's "Stop Breaking Down", which has superb vocals and harp from Grange, ferocious electric slide from Burrett and heavy heavy lead guitar from Sellins. They revamp Slim Harpo's "Hip Shake Boogie" to good effect along the way and bring the set to a dramatic close with a dynamic rendition of Dylan's "Highway 61". Sclerotic and unfashionable and passé Brit blues-rock may be but there isn't a dud track on this good natured and seriously entertaining CD the lavishly talented Blue Bishops are in grave danger of single-handedly giving the genre a good name. Rating: 9 - Scott Duncan (Blues in Britain)

The Blue Bishops - Video Downloads

Both videos shot at the 1999 Bishopstock Festival.  The first video "Highway 61 Revisited" will be available as an audio track on their album "Deep" album available soon from this site.  Both clips are between 3 - 4 minutes in duration.

"Highway 61 Revisited"   Best quality (2.8 Mb's)

"No Religious Man" Best quality (3.6 Mb's)