Moon Burn

February 2011 Gig

 

Hobart-based Moonburn aren't a normal blues band, or a normal jazz/funk/blues/covers band. Moonburn want to be different. Moonburn embody the sound of UK born blues phenom Jon Cleary, who has spent his life soaking up the sounds of the American south: Alligator Lips and Dirty Rice, C'mon Second Line, and Port St: ("There's a beat up peeyana, the cha cha's outta tune, in the corner there's a messed up jukebox... stacks and stacks of scratched up 45s, and cobwebs hang from the ceiling, fans blow smoke back in my eyes, but the door's always open, if you're somewhere close by around, and the walls are always shakin' to soulful sounds...")

It's the sound of Tony Joe White telling stories of Polk Salad Annie ("chomp, chomp, alligator's got your Granny"), and Roosevelt and Ira Lee hunting bullfrogs in the swamp. The sound of Joe Bonamassa ripping it up, of BB King singing about Caldonia ("walking with my baby... she's got great big feet"), and Bondi Cigars.

What is Moonburn? - The burn of moonshine going down the back of your throat, moonshine madness? Nocturnal pursuits, scuttling from shadow to shadow in the daylight hours, not wanting to ruin your moontan? Come and listen, and decide for yourself.

Devon Robson - guitar and vocals

Will Colvin - drums

Jeff Thornton - keyboards and vocals

Charles Harris - bass and vocals