Egypt Blues Band (UK)

Egypt Blues Band

Egypt Cruise The Rock ‘N’ Blues

Since the beginning of the year when the gig calendar was posted I had been awaiting this band and there can not have been one disappointed rock ‘n’ blues fan in The Kings, this was simply the best night of the year, for me:-)

Egypt the band have been around since 1987 and have very close connections with the legendary 60/70s band The Groundhogs therefore we’re talking experience and class of the highest order. Some people say if you remember the 60s you weren’t really there, I was and I do and it was the experimentation by such bands that has led to such a huge international following of British music worldwide.

So what did we get? Two sets, nearly three hours and 17 songs…yep, that’s an average of almost 10 minutes per track including “Ride Till You Die”, Howlin’ Wolf’s classic “Smokestack Lightning”, “Bring It On Home”, three classic Robert Johnson tracks, “Hellhound On My Trail”, “Early This Morning” and “Walking Blues”. One of the most classic blues songs of all time has to be “Baby, Please Don’t Go” which was first recorded by Big Joe Williams in 1935 however for most of us it was Van Morrison and Them who created the classic rock ‘n’ blues version we all know so well and wow, did Egypt do this justice, you bet.

Would they play The Groundhogs “Cherry Red”? Certainly and I have absolutely no idea how long it lasted maybe 20 minutes???…phenomenal, absolutely amazing and the entire bar loved every second of it and they