Phil Edgeley

Slide Guitarist, singer songwriter, cook extraordinaire, ex fitter and turner, musical mendicant, mojo mumbler, you might catch Phil any week at some high-tone New South Wales Central Coast gig snaking out some trademark slide, fingerpickin' folk blues phonetics, or fingerlickin' at any of the local Ettalong nosh houses. This man likes blues. This man likes food. Gotta be good!
Yeah, but what's he done? Orright, orright, loosen up, boys and girls. The man has paid his dues-and then some. From way back in hometown Stamford, Lincolnshire, da-woopin' trombone in the local Brassed Off, flattenin' hedgehogs on his heavy duty metal thunder, crowing like Little Red Rooster with his old six string down at the local, the punters just waitin' to die; to mixin' it with the cream of the new Aussie blues explosion at Lizotte's Live, that's a mighty long way to a place at the table. Two albums-This Life, followed by Then and Now-Slide inspired by the likes of Jeff Lang and fingerpicking in the same vein as the other Phil (Manning) all the way to the crossroads. Yeah, he's had stones in his passway, but catch his smartmouth live, and woooh, that's a lowdown dirty sound, brother, and I mean MEAN. Wait up, clear as an English brook, he's got some crusty ol' folk smoothin' out Kelly Joe Phelps, fingers flyin',unbending notes in near nirvana, chasing a raga across Persia and back into a sweaty, desperate delivery like a buzzsaw in a tattoo parlour.
Up and down the Pacific seaboard, a storm-blown gull, he knocks out his unique English resophonic explosion. Sure, his songs are all about getting out from under. His label is Miserable Kid Recordings and this man is not blowin' smoke where the sun don't shine. Just catch Phil Edgeley LIVE, will ya. He is a regular funnyman and in that rare moment he can't think of a comeback quip, he just cuts loose on 'Gallows Pole' or slices and dices Robert Johnson's 'Hellhound'. You know, though, you might just wanna hear him spin moody magic with Richard Thompson's '1952 Vincent Black Lightning' , nostalgia in an irresistible arpeggio package. That's the thing with Phil; he takes you places you don't expect, but the ride is always worth more than the price.

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