I’d never heard Eddie 9V before this single, but I’ll be watching out for him going forward. He hails from Atlanta GA and he has been playing the deep south for a few years now. There is a very soulful feel to his Blues, and this single, especially with horns filling out the gaps and Eddie’s Freddie King style guitar, has a wonderful crossover between styles. It has a huge soundscape, mirroring the vista under which it was written. “Saratoga was written under a perfect western landscape,” says Eddie. “We had an off day on the road, and I was sitting on a random Air B&B porch picking a riff I had recently come up with. I was writing all these little lyrics while looking out to a huge mule deer directly in front of me eating grass and carrots that I was throwing to them. Continues Eddie, “When it came time to record, we flew to Denver. I wanted to record the forthcoming album in the Rocky Mountains. You definitely get an outdoorsy feel in this song.”
He will be touring from mid-May takeing in dates at The Grace, London (Monday May 13), Komedia, Brighton (Tuesday May 14), The Bodega, Nottingham (Wednesday May 15), and The Louisiana, Bristol (Thursday May 16). Eddie’s special guest is British guitar trio The Zac Schulze Gang. Tickets are available from www.alttickets.com/eddie-9v-tickets and www.eddie9volt.com/tour.
