Routine Soundman's Recording makes it on to CD as First Live Album for Veteran British Blues Man.

Veteran British blues rock guitarist Mick Clarke releases his first ever live album. The recording was originally made as a routine check for the band's own use, but has become an instant hit with fans.

Routine Soundman's Recording makes it on to CD as First Live Album for Veteran British Blues Man.

London, England -- September 3, 2003 -- Veteran British blues-rock guitarist Mick Clarke has released his first ever live album, "Live in Luxembourg" on Taxim Records, Germany, from a tape originally made for the band's own use. Mick was a founder member of the sixties blues rock band Killing Floor and has since built a reputation as one of Europe's top blues rock guitarists, praised for his fiery slide guitar and "straight from the wood" guitar sound.

The recording was made direct from the mixing desk at the "Big Blues" Festival in Luxembourg, June 2002, which also featured Bo Diddley and ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor. It was a routine recording, made mainly for the band to check their own performance. However, after a few listens, Mick and the band realised that the tape was worthy of far more than just private use. A few copies were pressed up and distributed to some avid fans, and reactions were unanimous. "Absolutely brilliant!!" wrote one, while another said that the recording had brought back the "magic atmosphere" of the concert. Subsequently the tape was licensed to Taxim Records in Bremen, Germany, who have now released it on CD worldwide.

Featuring four Mick Clarke originals and four blues standards the album supplies 52 minutes of live blues-rock in Mick's own style. Opening with the ironically named "Bromley City Limits" the set moves on to classic blues material such as Muddy Water's "You gonna miss me" - here treated as a slow mournful minor key lament, with dramatic keyboard and guitar solos. The show moves up a gear with a flat out boogie version of Willie Dixon's "You Need Love" and ends with Chuck Berry's rocking "Don't You Lie to Me".

Drummer Chris Sharley and bassist Eddie Masters power the set along, while keyboard wizard Dave Lennox, who has played previously with Ginger Baker, weaves his playing around Mick's powerful and eloquent guitar.

"Live in Luxembourg" is released on Taxim Records TX-1053-2 TB available from all good blues record sources and http://www.mickclarke.com direct. For enquiries contact mail@mickclarke.com.