Friday 19 July 2013

Interview/Free Live Album/Gigs

Recently Walter Beck from Polari Online Magazine asked if I would happy to do an interview for them so i did. Here's the link to the interview:
http://www.polarimagazine.com/interviews/living-blues-interview-sleepy-eyes-nelson/

Also just to let you know, there is a live album available for free download on Shive/Lo-Fi Shit Records from the American tour i did with Slate Dump.  The recording was done by Brad Fielder at the Bluebonnet Bar in Norman Oklahoma. iT turned out great and it's another nice we split with Slate Dump and me.
Here is the link:   http://shivelofishitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-bluebonnet-bar

I've also got another video up on YouTube playing a new simple song called Bad Loser Blues

I'm playing the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival starting this Sunday the 21st then on Monday 22nd and Thursday the 25th, all gigs are at the Tron Kirk and I'm on early at 10.30 am.  I've also got a gig at the Slouch Blues night in Glasgow on the 24th starting around 10pm.  

email:  sleepyeyesnelson@hotmail.co.uk

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Monday 15 July 2013

Blues in Britain/Videos

Here is another review of my album Unhealthy Songbook.  The review is from Blues in Britain.  I've also uploaded a couple of videos to YouTube.  One new song called I Couldn't Buy Beer and the other is a Townes Van Zandt cover call Still Looking For You.  Follow the links to view.

I Couldn't Buy Beer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc0niWEsBXc&feature=c4-overview&list=UUwVAd6467JazQrlyeJVKz4g

Still Looking For You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJkjo-HS2O0&list=UUwVAd6467JazQrlyeJVKz4g

Thursday 11 July 2013

Unhealthy Songbook Album Review

Here is a review by Blues in the Northwest of my album Unhealthy Songbook. The album is a available to buy on Cheap Wine Records but there is only a limited amount of hard copies left.   Here is a link to buy: http://cheapwinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/unhealthy-songbook

Review: Sleepy Eyes Nelson – Unhealthy Songbook

Posted on: Friday, May 17, 2013

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Sleepy Eyes Nelson – Unhealthy Songbook

(Cheap Wine Records)

Sleepy is a native of Ayrshire, in Scotland but, is now based in Glasgow and is a popular artist and regular performer on the club circuit. His confident and attractive down home Delta finger-picking is enrapturing in its uncannily evocative and resolutely comforting style; for he invokes the very deep feelings, emotions and atmosphere one would expect of a Mississippi Delta native.
All of this is created, written and recorded at home in Glasgow. Whilst listening to his particularly intimate and intricate Country Blues playing you would swear that not only are you hearing vocals and lead guitar but that you are also hearing the lead, rhythm, bass and percussion.
In all, Sleepy has featured in no less than eight albums and has collaborated on these with artists such as;  Slate Dump (Jason Mathew McQuillen) of West Virginia, C.J. Marie of Missouri and Pigeon Petal of Texas.
He and his talents were discovered and signed by the American record label Devil’s Ruin in two thousand and eight; since then he has moved onto Cheap Wine Records.
Of the 20 numbers found on the album 17 are Sleepy originals; also, apart from five live recordings all the numbers have been recorded at Sleepys’ home. This lo-fi approach has certainly enhanced the overall sound, for the music is in its natural element and by accident or design is closer in feeling to artists of the past. The stories found in the numbers are wide and varied ranging from “Devil Drink Blues” and “whisky in The Mornin,’ ” melancholy, yet jaunty tales of how to lose your wife and life, one drink at a time; to the highly relevant “The Bookies Won’t Leave Me Alone,” which warns of how television, newspapers, telephones and the high street entices you in; to the subject of food tastes with “Don’t Kill That Steak,” “Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken” and “Deep Fried Pizza Blues,” Sleepy also offers you this not too enticing tale of his unpleasant experiences of travelling on the Scottish railway system with “Scotrail Blues.”
The fine atmospheric five live performances range from “Old House Covered In Blues” and “Power Cut Blues,” at The State Bar in Glasgow, to duets with Carmen Lee on “The Rats are Coming In” followed by “King Tut’s Blues,” with Slate Dump at Nitro’s, West Virginia ending with “Postman’s Blues,” and Blind Boy Fuller’s “Step it Up and Go,” at Murphy’s in Memphis Tennessee.
Although the tales are told in a thirties style virtually all the numbers are starkly resonant of life today.
Recommended!
BRIAN HARMAN

Friday 5 July 2013

New Album - Busy With The Blues - FREE

I'm pleased to say I have a new album out on Cheap Wine Records called Busy With The Blues.  The album is a FREE download for a limited time only!  


Follow the link to download the full album for FREE!
http://cheapwinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/busy-with-the-blues

I've been busy playing gigs around Edinburgh and Glasgow recently and I'll be back in Edinburgh in a couple of weeks to play the Jazz and Blues Festival.

You can also follow me on Tumblr at:   www.sleepyeyesnelson.tumblr.com
and also on facebook at:  www.facebook.com/sleepyeyesnelsonbluesmusician

For bookings please email:  sleepyeyesnelson@hotmail.co.uk

Cheers

Sleepy