BLUES
RAG, Official Newsletter of the Baltimore Blues Society
JEREMY
LYONS
Deltabilly Swing
Self Produced JL 101497•Lee Alban
It
may seem an unlikely destination in search of blues, but after all
this was new Orleans, not Key West, and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville
was just around the corner from my hotel. When I entered, Jeremy was
singing a bluesy ragtime tune and playing amplified acoustic guitar,
backed by an upright bass and a drummer. This was my kind of music....read
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Blues
Revue #48, June 1999
JEREMY
LYONS
Deltabilly Swing
JL 101497-
He
may have been born and raised in Ithaca, NY, but Jeremy Lyons' heart
and soul are in the Delta. After playing French Quarter streets in
a variety of bands, Lyons has finally released his debut album, and
it sounds as if the guy was spoofed in the musical melting pot of
the Big Easy. Like another talented transplanted upstate New Yorker,
John Mooney, Lyons plays slide guitar with startling authenticity.
Whether solo acoustic or with modified electric backing, Lyons zips
through covers of classic Delta blues from Leadbelly, Blind Blake,
Robert Johnson and Sleepy John Estes as if he'd spent his entire life
living the blues in the South....read
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Offbeat,
July 2000
Deltabilly
Boys Deviate the Blues in Lyons' Den
JEREMY
LYONS
Cute
Ethnomusicologist Quits the Street and Hits the Road
by
Cristina Diettinger
There
seems to be an unfounded obsession in music journalism for the public
in terms of type. It manifests itself in a bad habit of slapping a
label on every artist that comes along, and then later cursing him
for deviating from a genre that he may have been locked into unwillingly.
Consider Jeremy Lyons against this background, and it just doesn't
jive. His view of music as art and as entertainment do not concur
with the need to describe music in terms of categories. Where Jeremy
Lyons is concerned, things can be far more interesting than that....read
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SEVEN
DAYS - Reviews
JEREMY
LYONS, DELTABILLY SWING (self released CD) -
You'd
have thought this guy would have found himself a major label by now,
though on the other hand you wouldn't want to hear him overproduced.
Jeremy Lyons is from upstate New York, but he changed his address
to New Orleans and musical his trip was surely by way of a few cotton
fields and hillbilly hootenannies. Lyons has the Mississippi in his
blood and Delta mud under his fingernails, so after learning slide
guitar and finger-picking while still back home, it was only natural
he headed for turf that sprouted the likes of Robert Johnson, Blind
Willie Johnson and Mississippi John Hurt....read
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THE
TIMES PICAYUNE
Deltabilly
Boy
It
would be easy to insert Jeremy Lyons into a standard story line: Former
street musician makes good in the clubs. Yankee travels south in search
of the nation's musical soul. College professor's son shuns academe
because, frankly, it's more fun to play music than to analyze it....read
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