Digipack. LINE UP Mighty Sam McClain / vocals Knut Reiersrud / guitar, harmonica, piano (02 & 08) & vocals (05) Bjørn Holm / guitar David Wallumrød / Hammond organ, Wurlitzer, piano & Prophet 5 Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen / bass Andreas Bye / drums Håkon Kornstad / saxes & flute Martin Horntveth / timpani & tubular bells + strings Even Norwegians get the blues. On “Tears Of The World,” guitarist Knut Reiersrud and his band find themselves in the company of the 72-year old vocalist Mighty Sam McClain, originally from Louisiana. Together, they have dedicated themselves to the music of the deep south and have given impressive proof that, when it comes to playing hard-driven R&B, soul or blues, it’s not where you come from that’s important.In the context of the regular flow of new releases on the ACT label, “Tears Of The World” is patently a stylistic outlier; and yet this detour is not all that surprising, given label founder Siggi Loch’s passion for the blues. In Loch’s autobiography he describes the experience of what he remembers as the “wildest night” of his life - until then, at least. It was in 1962, and he was at one of the first American Folk Blues Fest.
