Snow in Auburn and new HTB Reviews.

HTB's sweet pad covered in snow. We woke up yesterday morn and this is what was going on in Auburn.

Recently a bunch of folks have been reviewing HTB, the band and the records. Here's the one's we got this week. Check them out.
Almost never does an indie band come along that surprises to the point that you can't imagine they aren't signed to a major record deal. It is possible that with the current state of the music industry, however, that a band like Hightide Blues can put out such an excellent collection of tunes without that type of backing. A mixture or funk, jazz, rock, and blues, this album mixes all the mentioned style in such a way that each song is familiar, yet not redundant, and you don't find yourself listening to the same cookie cutter sound that you're used to. This album is a promising foreshadow of a music career that will be prosperous. The world is waiting for this generation's great bands to plant themselves firmly in the soil and begin to grow. You can rest assured that Hightide Blues has managed to create that album that will shine a light on themselves that will no go dim for some time.

Key Tracks: "Dreamin' Alone"; "Let It Roll"; "Merle's Last Stand"

Rootstime is one of the biggest Blues- and Roots websites from Belgium & The Netherlands.Here's the translated version of the review from Rootstime...

HIGHTIDE BLUES "LOVE COME EASY"
Music with its roots deep in the south, that brings this young band from Atlanta, after their debut EP "Tired Of Leaving" two years ago, it was now time for a full album, already that is well an overstatement, for with its eight songs, and only takes the thirty minutes from now, is this album totally not so long. We call it thus their second EP. But I must admit it is useful spent, the half hour. Hightide makes a kind of rootsrock-Americana with a sound, that by finished and closed does think of Black Crowes, by chance a title of one of the songs on "Love Come Easy". Only also as much as with Ryan Adams, their music shows sometimes what resemblances. They played last year even on the prestigious Bonnaroo festival. Frontman singer guitarist Paul McDonald has a characteristic voice, raspy, and in the softer numbers at the same time unctous and sweet. The other guitarist Jonathan Pears is the man that sees to the rock contribution, Jimmy Page meets Mark Ford. In "Merle's Last Stand", he can let self be gone completely and furnishes that real Southern fireworks. "Black Crows" is one of the most beautiful songs on this plate, a slow, penetrating song. The softer "Dancing With The Angels" has been dedicated at one of theirs 's largest and most faithful fans, Meg Ingram, that at cancer passed away and for which Paul this song wrote in the night before her funeral, where he also sang. A moving number takes "Love Come Easy" off to close. Because the boys also sent their debut "Tired Or Leaving" from 2007, as said an EP that 5 songs contain, we also have that to undergo a splendor test. The same "Southern rock marks alt. country" here, is what's self-evident, but at least five strong numbers, these boys are clear on the principle of "all killers, no fillers" and bring EP' s rather than full CD's that for the half with weaker numbers filled be. Winners here are: "4.15" and the title song" Tired Of Leaving", really a great song. Hightide Blues is a beloved band, that the Southern rock in what sends out tempered form a new direction.