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by Edoardo Fassio In July 2019, the Italian distributor of Monopoly launched a special version of the most famous board game in the world, specifically dedicated to the Apulian town of (almost) the same name; it is “Monopoli’s Monopoly edition”, a collector’s item celebrating the coastal town that lies 45 kilometers south-east of Bari, right where Italy’s heel starts. This was not the only event of note, last year, to testify to the liveliness of the local scene when it comes to popular culture. In September, in the rural area between Monopoli and Castellana Grotte, homeboy guitarist and producer Sebastiano Lillo founded Trulletto Records, an ambitious record label. The name pays homage to the trulli, the ancient domed dry-stone buildings typical to the area, one of which, appropriately renovated, houses the company’s offices and a recording studio. “We started producing roots and blues music, concentrating on basic, no-frills stuff”, says Lillo, not new to achieving success starting from scratch. He was the musical partner of the raw soul singer Angela Esmeralda, with whom he released two acclaimed CDs that blended deep blues and Apulian

and revisits old (and also very old) songs, from Bukka White to Harry Belafonte to Bob Dylan. It was followed by “Songs From The Garret”, the solo debut of HaT in the Garret, aka Giuseppe “JimiRay” Piazzolla, and the works of young personalities such as Cedro (Pierpaolo Mingolla), a singer-songwriter and accordionist, or the impressive fingerstyle guitarist Palma Cosa . As of November 2020, the latest baby of the label that lives in the trullo is “Cianfrusaglie” (Junk), by a duo that directly involves Sebastiano Lillo, along with double bass ace Carletto Petrosillo.

https://trullettorecords.bandcamp.com/ https://www.trullettorecords.com/ vernacular, and participated in 2015 to the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. He was also part of The Drive, the quartet that represented Italy at the 2019 European Blues Challenge, held at Ponta Delgada, in the Azores Islands. “In an artistic landscape that is increasingly dominated by electronics”, Lillo insists, “our goal is to reassess the importance of the electro-acoustic sound, and pay respect to the musicians’ ideas, with no tricks at all”. The first release for Trulletto is “Sitting Singin’ Old Songs” by Stefano Barigazzi, a twenty-four-year-old singer and guitarist from Reggio Emilia. Throughout the album, recorded at home during the lockdown, he accompanies himself with a vintage guitar purchased in New Orleans,

Tab Benoit Rocks the Ryman Live in Concert! Along with Very Special Guest, Samantha Fish

Show will also be Live-streamed - Friday, November 6, 8pm Tickets: $89.-$129. (Live-stream: $12.) Tab Benoit’s Musical ever heard Fish’s previous albums knows that reminiscent of the late great Otis Redding.

Ties To Music City she has earned a place in the top rank of contemporary blues guitarists and that her The final song of Benoit’s 75-minute set was “Medicine” the title barn burning song from voice can wring the soul out of a ballad and the 2011 album. The band was so tight by this Run Deep belt out a rocker with roof-shaking force. And, rest reassured, those virtues are fully in time that it was seamless in the way that the trio inter-played with each other. The night Benoit received a Grammy nomination evidence on Kill or Be Kind. Each of the ended as a satisfied audience expressed their in 2006 for his musical tribute to Blues and songs tell captivating stories, set up by verses appreciation for a great show.” Country music on the album, Brother to that deftly set the scene, choruses that lift the Blues. The title track was a George with real feeling, and hooks that later rise up Benoit, who’s always been known for Jones cover. The legendary country singer in your thoughts. Those qualities make Kill or his environmental activism, performed two is one of Tab’s favorites. The Houma, Be Kind a genuine artistic breakthrough for nights in his hometown of Houma last Spring Louisiana-based Benoit also paid homage Fish. at the 16th Annual Voice of the Wetlands to Music City with 2011’s Night Train To Festival. He also appears prominently in the Nashville, which also featured Louisiana’s Benoit was selected a “30 Best Blues IMax motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou, Leroux. Guitarist In The World Today” by Guitar a documentary of Hurricane Katrina’s effects World and co-authored the recently-released and a call to protect and restore the Wetlands, Joining Benoit at the Ryman: Very book, Blues Therapy, about the blues and and produced a CD to help restore that state’s Special Guest, Samantha Fish. “That was my mental illness. Coastal Wetlands. Benoit was recently mission on this album: To really set these inducted into the Louisiana Folklife Center songs up so that they have a life of their Reviewing a live Tab Benoit show Hall of Master Folk Artists in the Spring of own,” says guitarist Samantha Fish about Kill this past Spring, Blues Rock Review writes, 2020. or Be Kind, her sixth solo album and Rounder “Song number two was “Little Girl Blues” a Records debut. “Strong messages from the hard rocking bayou blues song from 2005’s Benoit has launched his own imprint, heart – that’s what I really set out for.” Fever From the Bayou giving Tab the Whiskey Bayou Records, with partner and Indeed, what comes across immediately on opportunity to demonstrate his prowess on manager, Rueben Williams. The label has hearing the album is the extraordinary level of the six string by attacking it like a man thus far released albums by such established song-craft on its eleven tracks, the way these possessed. “Nothing Takes the Place of You” artists as Eric McFadden, Alastair Greene, songs are so smartly put together to deliver a by Toussaint McCall was a beautiful soaring Damon Fowler, Eric Johanson, Jeff McCarty, potent emotional impact. Anyone who has blues tune that Benoit sang with a passion and Dash Rip Rock. 20 Rock and Blues International • November 2020