Hans Theessink - Hard Road BluesI recorded HARD ROAD BLUES in 2 nights (October 6th 7th, 1994) in the OPUS Recorder Music Studio in Austria in one go and all analog. It was quite a meditative affair, recorded very well by sound engineer Andreas Fabianek. We used a vocal mic, a guitar mic, and a few other mics to capture the natural sound of the room. The recording sounds very organic; you can feel every movement and breathing and you can literally hear the fingers dancing on the

Songs you'll know well and songs you'll want to get to know well rub shoulders in this exceptional project

Bob Cunningham

Death cradles the Maiden in his bony embrace

PRIMAL FEAR) and Bruce Kulick (ex-KISS) completed the project

there are many previously unreleased songs

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along with interspersed elements of Vienna folklore and a vague presentiment of decades of terror looming on the horizon

But his former student

following up several big sellers in the 1930s with well over 50 entries in the Billboard charts after the record sales charts were established in 1940

'While working on the "lost" album which the band recorded in Munich

This is an instrumental suite based on a day in their home town of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight

Thomas Bartlett and Aaron Dessner