Biography
Honey B. & T-Bones will release their brand new album Alien Blues in May 2009. At the same times this album, which is the band’s 12th, artistically constitutes the band’s "magnum opus".
As a new speciality, the drummer’s seat in the band is occupied by Jaska Lukkarinen (ia Soul Captain Band, Värttinä, Jaska Lukkarinen Trio, Dalindeo), whose beastly working not only yields colourful listening but also interesting watching. The music of Honey B. & T-Bones can presently be termed psychedelic garage blues lifted with a strong rock sourdough. The music thus constitutes no run-of-the-mill grind, but instead a heady cocktail, where the best psychedelic elements from 1960’s San Francisco meet Mississippi blues in a garage, with no less than serious intentions. The phat bass lines of Honey B. and the funky drumming of Jaska Lukkarinen builds a house, where T-Bone Ed’s fiery slide takes no prisoners. The cherry on the cake comes by courtesy of Honey B’s singing. Think of updated Memphis Minnie and you’re close. Blues is not for teenagers, it grows from life experience. T-Bones have gigged a quarter of a century, frequently all over Europe, so they know the ropes. They have worked with harpist Gary Primich, guitar ace Mel Brown and the mighty UMO orchestra and are currently backing Finland’s answer to Dylan, Tuomari Nurmio (a.k.a. Judge Bone). In the course of ten albums their style has matured from rootsy blues through rocking R&B and psychedelic experimental rock to today’s kaleidoscopic garage blues that fills their brand new 2009 Alien Blues album.
Honey B. & T-Bones are:
- Aija "Honey B." Puurtinen, bass and vocals
- Esa Kuloniemi, guitars and vocals
- Jaska Lukkarinen, drums and vocals