* Bonus tracks recorded live at Muddy Waters, Oslo, Norway
** Studio bonus track
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The Corazong release of Strange Adventure includes seven bonus tracks; six recorded live at Muddy Waters in Oslo, Norway and one studio demo, totaling 17 songs. Self-released in small quantity to critical acclaim in 2006! No Depression: The Mercy Brothers come up with their own winning formula that claims the middle ground between country blues and R&B’s soul wing. There’s a sense of something primal and…barely leashed about Strange Adventure.
Imagine Mississippi John Hurt and Duane Eddy jamming with an acoustic psychobilly band …as a dazed Sam Cooke walks in to add the vocals after having spent the previous evening out on the town with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.” If you ever wanted a definition of ‘Americana’, stop here. -- Norman Darwen, Blues Art Studio, Vienna
Produced by Michael Dinallo and Sean Carberry, Strange Adventure is a collection of roots songs based in the tradition of acoustic blues and mountain music with a nod to the past but firmly in the present. Travel and change are a constant theme running through the songs on Strange Adventure written primarily by Dinallo. The influences are many ... twangy songs that are intriguing amalgams of blues, rock, and country, stubbornly defying convenient idiomatic labeling, - Bill Dahl, Living Blues
From Boston, The Mercy Brothers are vocalist extraordinaire Barrence Whitfield and guitarist /producer /songwriter Michael Dinallo. The soul man/blues shouter/country singer well known from Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, is the owner of one incredible pair of lungs and limitless energy and enthusiasm for his music -John Dougan, All Music Guide.
Michael Dinallo, the former bandleader/guitarist for the Radio Kings, is one of Boston’s most sought after producer and guitar players, the man behind the artist: that rare self-effacing guitarist who eschews the spotlight - Bill Dahl, Living Blues.
