Beaucoup Blue

Beaucoup Blue
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You know the expression “the family that plays together stays together”? Beaucoup Blue stand by it. The Philadelphia-based father-and-son duo share a love for acoustic, stringed instruments and pentatonic scales as well as DNA. Hearts at Home is their sophomore release, and the soulful mix of folk, blues and jazz is sure to entice new fans. The record features six- and 12-string guitars, harmonica and Dobro, as well as seamless vocal harmonies. “I Surrender” is reminiscent of the Ike and Tina Turner “Proud Mary” intro, with a relaxed tempo and deep baritone vocals. “On My Way” is an uptempo traveling song with a lead slide guitar that calls to mind a chugging freight train. Other highlights are the tender “Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor” and the inspirational “I Heard Gabriel Singing.” If you’re a traditional blues fan, you need to give Hearts at Home a home on your shelf.
Gvon T
Performing Songwriter Magazine
June 2007

Congrats to Beaucoup Blue
Winner of the 2006 Telluride Blues and Brews Festival
Acoustic Blues Competition!

Read about Beaucoup Blue at Acoustic Live Magazine

BEAUCOUP BLUE
"Hearts at Home"

Beaucoup Blue, with apologies to Ringo, is the Philadelphia based guitar playing father and son duo of David and Adrian Mowry. The two have been performing their acoustic, blues based folk music up and down the Eastern Seaboard since Adrian was a teenager. Joined here by concordant drummer, percussionist and harmonica player Jim Salamone, the pair soulfully mix up eight top notch originals with inventive, distinctively styled covers of songs by Benny Goodman (a delightfully finger picker "Stompin' at the Savoy"), blues singers John Lee Hooker and Elmore James, Tony Joe White (the most dolorous version of "Rainy Night in Georgia" you'll ever hear) and Kid Ory.
Throughout, their voices work superbly together, frequently attaining a mesmeric panache that must be thrilling to view in person, while their fret board and arranging skills are evident immediately. Three originals that close the album are particularly illustrative. A melodic, dream-like confessional, "Heartache On Horizon", is followed by the Dylanesque "I Surrender" (a notesabounding journey of tempos, tones and feelings) and the lyrical, slowly unwinding title song, about hard times, flashes of starlight and the ongoing search for peace and understanding. Also peerless are the pair's deceptively easy going treatment of the traditional "Make Me a Pallet On Your Floor", with mellow, inter-locking slide and fingerpicked asides and David's passionately swaggering vocal, and yet another Mowry composition - the bluesy, harmonica - enhanced "I Heard Gabriel Singing".
Beaucoup Blue is a versatile, imaginative team that has something to say and say it with an adventurous sense of personality from the bottom of their hearts.
Gvon T
Sing Out Magazine
Summer 2006
Vol. 50 # 2

A big thanks to all our fans who helped promote our new acoustic CD "Hearts at Home" at our live show with Johnny Winter.

Click the Listen link to hear the NEW acoustic CD "Hearts at Home" featuring Adrian and David Mowry. Cds can be ordered now, click the Order link.

Metro Paper Philadelphia Review:

"Philly browngrass"

Father and son unite with their band Beaucoup Blue

PROFILE: The music Adrian Mowry plays is his father’s music-but it’s also his. Mowry and his father, David, comprise the Philadelphia-based roots revivalist band Beaucoup Blue, Which just released it’s latest CD, "Hearts at Home".
"I think some people have a hard time grasping it because they picture themselves with their own father," Adrian says on his unusual band mate. "I’ve grown up with it my whole life, with him being a musician …It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, and it made sense for us to try to get together and make music together. We were lucky enough for it to work out.
"We really are musicians first when we’re playing together, and father and son second," adds Adrian, who plays six- and 12-string guitar in the group. David handles six-string, slide and dobro guitar, and both men share vocal and song-writing duties.
"Hearts At Home" also includes covers of jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman’s "Stompin’ at the Savoy" and bluesman John Lee Hooker’s "Little Wheel." Beaucoup Blue has a heavy blues influence, says Adrian, but also draws on country, folk, jazz and rock.
"We actually don’t fit in anywhere, honestly, or we fit in more than one place--maybe that’s the more positive way of looking at it," he says. "I know people want you to pigeonhole you and say what you are."
-Matt Smith

Philadelphia City Paper January 5-11, 2006 musicpicks riview:

Beaucoup Blue "Hearts at Home"

Roots
It's rare you'll see a father/son duo like Beaucoup Blue in these parts. "Yeah, we do run into it touring down south," notes Adrian Mowry. "My earliest memories are of watching my dad play in clubs." Early enough that Adrian was sitting under the table peeping up at David Mowry playing the blues and other acoustic guitar stuff, at legendary places like Club 47 in Cambridge and the original Main Point. "I always wanted to be like him. But I was shy, so I'd close myself away and practice." Adrian was 16 or 17 when he finally let David know he was ready to play out. It's been pretty steady since then. The pair expanded for a while to a quartet and have now tightened back up to an acoustic duo. "Hearts at Home" (self-released) is an example of the duo's philosophy: a love of acoustic roots, with blues and swing featured. But, as Adrian notes, if you love the styles enough, you can't help but be inspired to create some originals in the same vein.
-Mary Armstrong

Beaucoup Blue Jam "Hearts at Home"
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"Beaucoup Blue is the Philadelphia based duo of father and son David and Adrian Mowry. The slide licks are delicious and the song treatments go down like a good cognac. Their version of Rainy Night in Georgia breaks new ground."

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Tune-Up Magazine Mike Miller April 4, 2004 Issue Another too blue to be true troupe is Beaucoup Blue, whose CD, "Out of the Woodwork", offers a dozen classy classic wails, marked with sincerity and verve. This, my Caucasian friends, is what acoustic blues should sound like but so rarely do. Father and son, David and Adrian Mowry, deliver a surprisingly soulful performance. Their singing is tough and controlled and their guitar work is crisp and mournful.

www.bobtjeblues.com Beaucoup Blue - "Out Of The Woodwork": Full cd - US No matter the format (full band or acoustic duo) Beaucoup Blue has always been a father & son project. David and Adrian Mowry released with their band two albums: Blooming On Harm's Limb en Love Breakin' Down. Nevertheless, as a duo they continued writing songs and performing on stage. The response of their fans and friends was that big that a first album just had to be recorded. Unlike their previous work of Chicago and Texas blues, "Out Of The Woodwork" is a completely acoustic album. Although it contains a lot of blues songs, they found also their love in American Music, music from singer-songwriters like Bob Dylan, Philip Baptiste, George Khoury and others. A handsome range of instruments like six and twelve string guitars, slide guitar, dobro and the two voices will give you a good idea of what you can expect. David and Adrian switch easily between blues songs like J.L Hookers 'Come Back Baby' and 'Mystery Train' by Sam Philips/Herman Parker.Jr, to traditionals like 'Corina, Corina' here in a version of Bob Dylan. A little bit later they rise from the Mississippi Delta in an immensely beautiful version of Robert Johnson's 'Walkin' Blues'. Covers and reworkings mix nicely with own compositions like the tender 'Crying Won't Help You' and the roots number 'Shiver To The Bone'. The recording quality is outstanding and the songs obviously benefit from this. Out Of The Woodwork is in my mind genuine craftsmanship.

Big City Blues Magazine Review 1166 Beaucoup Blue Out Of The Woodwork Self-produced The father and son team, David and Adrian Mowry respectively, is rooted in what they call American music. They are based out of Philadelphia. Doing ballads and music like Little Walters’ ‘Mean Old World’, Bob Dylan’s ‘Corrina, Corrina’ and It Takes A Lot To Laugh-It Takes A Train To Cry’, Jimmy Reed’s ‘Bright Lights, Big City’, Robert Johnson’s ‘Walkin’ Blues’, Junior Parker’s‘ Mystery Train’, and Huddie Ledbetter’s ‘C.C. Rider’. An acoustic masterpiece, play with the volume down.