Almost every track is different from the last. T.Chikn is a blend of many genres, their songs spread along a wide spectrum of delta blues, folk, rock, and experimental sound.
"a wild mix of trance-inducing Delta blues and lower-than-lo-fi garage attitude"
"unconditionally righteous"
"The vocal range is tremendous, with Smilin’ Bob’s rugged lows, and Rachel’s soul-stirring mids and highs. Bob is an incredible blues guitarist, and Rachel is an excellent violinist; but they keep the audience ...
Almost every track is different from the last. T.Chikn is a blend of many genres, their songs spread along a wide spectrum of delta blues, folk, rock, and experimental sound.
"a wild mix of trance-inducing Delta blues and lower-than-lo-fi garage attitude"
"unconditionally righteous"
"The vocal range is tremendous, with Smilin’ Bob’s rugged lows, and Rachel’s soul-stirring mids and highs. Bob is an incredible blues guitarist, and Rachel is an excellent violinist; but they keep the audience amazed with each one’s ability to play the instruments in their quite large musical arsenal interchangeably."
"Both multi-instrumentalists separated by decades, Rachel Ammons and Smilin' Bob Lewis deconstruct the blues into a primal, raucous four on the floor attack of sawing fiddle, finger-picked guitar and trance-inducing bass drum. Shockingly tight one verse and gleefully atonal the next", they incorporate their roots into their music to get the crowd up and dancing.
T.Chikn's influences include jump blues, swing and piedmont blues, delta, rock, southern gospel, dance/trance.
The Band:
Smilin' Bob Lewis - Vocals, slide guitar, harmonica, dulcimer, Drums, Dobro, Bass, Banjo, an array of other percussion
Rachel Ammons - Vocals, Ukelele, slide guitar, juice harp, Fiddle, Drums, Clawhammer Banjo, Cello, a few more percussion instruments
We love Robert Johnson, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Howlin' Wolf, Big Mama Thornton, Son House, Muddy Waters, Mississippi Fred MacDowell, Bo Diddley, Bessie Smith, Ikey Robinson, Alfonso Trent, R.L. Burnside, Blind Willie Johnson...the list goes on...
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