From Place To Hide, that awakens Leon Russell’s Shelter People, to the haunting Find Ya Love, Red’s three cuts offers a glimpse into the rock n’ roll bazaar of The Bloody Nerve.
- Nashville Music News
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Release Date: 15-November-2013
Genre: Rock / Classic Rock /Blues Rock
Location: Nashville, TN
Publisher: [p][c] 2013 The Bloody Nerve (Blood, Layne/Blood)
Label/Distribution: Unsigned
Total Time: 11m 26s
Review Date: 12-November-2013
Review Format: Streaming MP3s
Bit Rate: 320 kbps
For Fans Of: The Rolling Stones, Heart,
Songs In Jivewired Radio Rotation: Find Ya Love
Best Songs:Local Honey, Find Ya Love
Best of the Rest:Place To Hide
Previous Jivewired Review: None
Jivewired Digital One Sheet:http://www.jivewired.com/BloodyNerve2
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Purchase/Stream:http://thebloodynerve.bandcamp.com/
Track Listing:
Red is the first collection of singles from The Bloody Nerve. This limited edition 3P includes the 2008 demo of Place To Hide as a bonus track. With the purchase of Red the buyer also gets a band t-shirt, a high-res photo for Red, plus the single cover art. Also included: a high resolution Bloody Nerve poster that can be printed.
Review:
Clashing rough-edged delta blues with a traditional rock format, Red by The Bloody Nerve offers a more modern version of the classic rock sound that more than encapsulates it's traditionally familiar format. The album plays at three speeds: Find Ya Love, which is a breathtaking rock ballad that emphasizes the great vocal abilities of Laurie Ann Layne; Place To Hide, a classic rock number that bathes in the traditional rock and blues motif; and Local Honey, a quick-paced rock and roll revivalist number that features longer vocal holds and a wider range by Layne, wickedly-paced speed guitar from Stacey Blood and a great piano accompaniment by Terry Bayless.
Red is a focused and generally pleasing short-player that quickly builds on the hook-laden and sweaty rocking formula of it's first two songs before closing it with a haunting ballad. Blood immediately finds his pace on Place To Hide before ripping into more nuclear guitar work on Local Honey. On Find Ya Love, Layne emits a powerful brand of female rock balladry that I haven't heard vocally this side of Ann Wilson of Heart. It's a chill-inducing, dramatic ballad that seems commercially viable for the duo.
Blood and Layne's backing band is equal to the task, particularly on Local Honey, a number which allows each of the individuals to somewhat shine. Blood is masterful on his solos and on the bridge, reminding us that he definitely has some solid chops. The driving percussion and white-hot piano play up to Layne's vocal abilities. A slight vocal echo emphasizes the heated sexuality of the arrangement.
Red is a quick player with some nice purchase perks, including a printable poster, especially because the duo photographs so very well and, hey, even a t-shirt and a CD alone for $9.99 is a great bargain. Musically, Red offers enough to leave us looking forward to the The Bloody Nerve's bookend accompanying CD Blue, set for release next month.
About The Bloody Nerve:
Working together on unrelated projects since 2011, Nashville villains Stacey Blood and Laurie Ann Layne have formed Nashville’s crucial rock n’ roll duo. The two voices that merge in reckless harmony also stand bold in their own solo discourses. The result is a song-driven rock n’ roll duo that predicates its style on rhythm and motion.
"Well that’s really easy. We make rock n’ roll. The heavy in the ass kind. The bluesy kind. Not this white bread campfire stuff you hear now with all the beards and shit" says Blood about how they set themselves apart.
In true Texas legacy this southern rock n’ roll heart. Blood, started his rock n’ roll journey in the D/FW metroplex. It was there he began truly fleshing out his sound as a solo artist while making ends meet as a drive time DJ on commercial radio. In 2004 Blood left radio completely, arriving in Nashville at the beckoning of long time friend and producer, David Norris.
A mutual friend of Norris, Laurie Ann Layne cut her teeth in the R&B world in New York working with various producers, but never quite unleashing her capabilities. In 2006 she hit the map after recording vocals on India Arie’s Grammy nominated Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationships.
Working and living at their own Overbar Studios on the outskirts on Nashville, the duo has produced and released their first EP Red with its follow up Blue due out in December. The project features an all star cast. Fresno drummer Peter Wolf, Nashville axe-man Danny Parks, Hollywood 60′s throwback Bobby Blood on bass, and native Texan Terry Bayless on keys join Blood and Layne in their rock n’ roll vagrancy.
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- Nashville Music News
Release Date: 15-November-2013
Genre: Rock / Classic Rock /Blues Rock
Location: Nashville, TN
Publisher: [p][c] 2013 The Bloody Nerve (Blood, Layne/Blood)
Label/Distribution: Unsigned
Total Time: 11m 26s
Review Date: 12-November-2013
Review Format: Streaming MP3s
Bit Rate: 320 kbps
For Fans Of: The Rolling Stones, Heart,
Songs In Jivewired Radio Rotation: Find Ya Love
Best Songs:Local Honey, Find Ya Love
Best of the Rest:Place To Hide
Previous Jivewired Review: None
Jivewired Digital One Sheet:http://www.jivewired.com/BloodyNerve2
Purchase/Stream:http://thebloodynerve.bandcamp.com/
Track Listing:
- Place To Hide 2:56
- Local Honey 3:59
- Find Ya Love 4:31
Red is the first collection of singles from The Bloody Nerve. This limited edition 3P includes the 2008 demo of Place To Hide as a bonus track. With the purchase of Red the buyer also gets a band t-shirt, a high-res photo for Red, plus the single cover art. Also included: a high resolution Bloody Nerve poster that can be printed.
Review:
Clashing rough-edged delta blues with a traditional rock format, Red by The Bloody Nerve offers a more modern version of the classic rock sound that more than encapsulates it's traditionally familiar format. The album plays at three speeds: Find Ya Love, which is a breathtaking rock ballad that emphasizes the great vocal abilities of Laurie Ann Layne; Place To Hide, a classic rock number that bathes in the traditional rock and blues motif; and Local Honey, a quick-paced rock and roll revivalist number that features longer vocal holds and a wider range by Layne, wickedly-paced speed guitar from Stacey Blood and a great piano accompaniment by Terry Bayless.
Red is a focused and generally pleasing short-player that quickly builds on the hook-laden and sweaty rocking formula of it's first two songs before closing it with a haunting ballad. Blood immediately finds his pace on Place To Hide before ripping into more nuclear guitar work on Local Honey. On Find Ya Love, Layne emits a powerful brand of female rock balladry that I haven't heard vocally this side of Ann Wilson of Heart. It's a chill-inducing, dramatic ballad that seems commercially viable for the duo.
Blood and Layne's backing band is equal to the task, particularly on Local Honey, a number which allows each of the individuals to somewhat shine. Blood is masterful on his solos and on the bridge, reminding us that he definitely has some solid chops. The driving percussion and white-hot piano play up to Layne's vocal abilities. A slight vocal echo emphasizes the heated sexuality of the arrangement.
Red is a quick player with some nice purchase perks, including a printable poster, especially because the duo photographs so very well and, hey, even a t-shirt and a CD alone for $9.99 is a great bargain. Musically, Red offers enough to leave us looking forward to the The Bloody Nerve's bookend accompanying CD Blue, set for release next month.
About The Bloody Nerve:
Working together on unrelated projects since 2011, Nashville villains Stacey Blood and Laurie Ann Layne have formed Nashville’s crucial rock n’ roll duo. The two voices that merge in reckless harmony also stand bold in their own solo discourses. The result is a song-driven rock n’ roll duo that predicates its style on rhythm and motion.
"Well that’s really easy. We make rock n’ roll. The heavy in the ass kind. The bluesy kind. Not this white bread campfire stuff you hear now with all the beards and shit" says Blood about how they set themselves apart.
In true Texas legacy this southern rock n’ roll heart. Blood, started his rock n’ roll journey in the D/FW metroplex. It was there he began truly fleshing out his sound as a solo artist while making ends meet as a drive time DJ on commercial radio. In 2004 Blood left radio completely, arriving in Nashville at the beckoning of long time friend and producer, David Norris.
A mutual friend of Norris, Laurie Ann Layne cut her teeth in the R&B world in New York working with various producers, but never quite unleashing her capabilities. In 2006 she hit the map after recording vocals on India Arie’s Grammy nominated Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationships.
Working and living at their own Overbar Studios on the outskirts on Nashville, the duo has produced and released their first EP Red with its follow up Blue due out in December. The project features an all star cast. Fresno drummer Peter Wolf, Nashville axe-man Danny Parks, Hollywood 60′s throwback Bobby Blood on bass, and native Texan Terry Bayless on keys join Blood and Layne in their rock n’ roll vagrancy.