Porkbellys In Europe!

Wildflower Records released our first CD “Way Past Midnight” in Europe on August of this summer and has collected some kudos from some British music mags……

“Blues songs about Ernest Hemingway and Booker winner Michael Ondaatje? Given that the delta pioneers were mostly illiterate, this latest contribution to the current blues revival is an improbably highbrow affair that reflects the status of main songwriter Paul Quarrington as one of Canada’s leading novelists. Quarrington possesses a fine voice that sounds uncannily like James Taylor (remember his 12-bar homage “Steamroller” on Sweet Baby James?) and the band–complete with bassist moonlighting from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra–can choogle and boogie with the best.” Nigel Williamson, Uncut Magazine

“Pork Belly Futures play what they call “red eyed soul” and everyone else calls “12 bar blues”. Their music is muscular and rollicking, but what really makes them a little special is the bar room wit, such as Hemingway (“Hemingway always gets it right, With a simple syntax and a prose that’s right”) – a trucker style anthem for the thinking drinker.” Q4Music