Nico Duportal And The Sparks Dog, Saint and Sinner (LP)

Nico Duportal

While some try, with more or less success, to loosen the ties of the blues, others take pleasure in solidly anchoring this music in the muddy bed of the Mississippi. Still others are able, with great skill, to draw nourishment from the very marrow of the music, whilst delighting in a fine exterior layer of modern ingenuity and fertile imagination. Nico Duportal is definitely of this last variety. The performances of Jimmie Vaughn, Ray Charles, Luther Allison and others, including Matt «Guitar» Murphy, left their mark on Nico, who made it his duty to complete his secondary education within punk and pub rock bands, before throwing himself body and soul into the unyielding study of the blues and rhythm & blues enjoyed by his Dad.

Since graduating, the erudite expert of the 12 bars has not stopped celebrating the art of Ike Turner, Larry Williams, Little Richard and their entourage throughout the four corners of Europe and across the Atlantic. Nico Duportal has accompanied such legendary and pioneer artists as Lynwood Slim, Lloyd Price, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely, harmonica player R.J Mi- scho, and the queen of rock n’roll herself, Wanda Jackson in the US and over Europe.

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