TRACK LIST : (1) Long Train Blues (2) Who's Calling ? Crocodile River (3) Great Dividing Blues (4) Voodoo Chile (5) Dreamtime Shuffle (6) Blacktown Baby (7) Bondi Boogie (8) Purple Haze (9) Ned Kelly Outlaw (10) Down In Sydney (11) I Just Can't Make It (12) Island Sunset.
GERRY JOE WEISE : vocals and guitars. All compositions by Gerry Joe Weise except (4) (8) Jimi Hendrix (11) Hound Dog Taylor. (1) (8) live, Lo Bolegason, Castres, France. (5) live, Cuq les Villemur, France. (10) (11) (12) live, Zenith, Toulouse, France.
Studio recordings in Australia, Belgium, France. Mastered at Pinewood Studios Oz.
GUITARIST MAGAZINE
October November 2005, CDs Of The Month.
Sydney-Paris Blues (OZ/ABM)
Australian guitarist, Gerry Joe Weise had been living in the South of France for 5 years before going back to Australia. The tracks on this album composed by bluesman Gerry Joe Weise have both fire and power, ignited by his 1963 L-series Stratocaster and 1960 Sears Silvertone. Showcasing "Dreamtime Shuffle", featuring cosmic slidework. "Long Train Blues" a soaring electrifying experience, taken from a concert opening for The Yardbirds. "Who's Calling ? Crocodile River" where Texas meets Australia's Northern Territory; and tunes even more Australian in style, like "Ned Kelly Outlaw" a solo deep and blue about bushrangers catching a fugitive. "Down In Sydney" performed live, opening for The Scorpions in front of 7,000 people in southern France.
GUITARIST MAGAZINE.
SOUL BAG MAGAZINE
N°181 December 2005
Sydney-Paris Blues (OZ/ABM)
Staying with a big guitar sound is Gerry Joe Weise with his third CD "Sydney-Paris Blues". Australian guitarist living in the South of France, has put aside traditional Australian instruments (didjeridu etc...) that had given his former "Bushman Boogie" album great color, to concentrate more on vocals and guitar. Fans who enjoy heroic guitar solos under control, will enjoy the treatment. Many great arrangements, plus an interesting contemporary approach to acoustic guitar.
CHRISTOPHE MOUROT.
INTERVIEW
Mike Zolten2006
"Northern Territory Blues"
"......... And that's just what makes Gerry Joe Weise so special, making the guitar sound bigger than life on his latest 2005 release Sydney-Paris Blues."
MIKE ZOLTEN.