12 November 2011
Andy Snipper
Staphen Dale Petit, freshly returned from Nashville where he has been recording his next release will be releasing an album of BBC sessions on December 5th.
Legendary broadcaster Bob Harris paid tribute to the UK-based American guitarist on eve of 'Stephen Dale Petit – The BBC Sessions' album release.
Bob said of Stephen - “I am fortunate to have spent time in the company of Stephen Dale Petit. We recorded a conversation and a session together for my weekend show on BBC Radio 2, which confirmed everything good I had heard about him. His playing was uninhibited and passionate; his knowledge of the blues was awesome. I discovered the respect he has for the heritage of the blues and his deep desire to see the music he loves remain relevant and important now and into the future. Stephen Dale Petit is a music man through and through…. A carrier of the torch. He is a magnificent musician and a powerful advocate of blues evolution. Long may he run!” Bob Harris BBC Radio & TV
The BBC Sessions album is released on Dec 5th and was recorded on the Paul Jones Blues Show on Radio 2, his live guest appearances on BBC Radio 2’s Paul Jones Rhythm & Blues Show and Bob Harris Show featuring Rolling Stone Mick Taylor as special guest.
Rolling Stone, Mick Taylor, who features on the BBC Sessions album says “I had a blast doing the Paul Jones Show with Stephen. I’ve worked with some great players over the years and I can tell you that the future of the blues is in good hands with SDP”.
Petit says: “I’m thrilled that the BBC continue to champion the blues – playlisting it at radio and featuring it on TV. I’m honoured they’ve chosen to release this album.”
The album, released Monday 5th December, in a collector’s limited 1000 edition Digipak with 8 page full colour booklet features both new and classic blues and rock material. The album’s cover photograph, specially commissioned from rock muse-turned-celeb photographer Pattie Boyd (who knows a few things about great guitarists), will also be framed and signed by both Pattie and SDP, to form a unique prize for one lucky recipient of a frankly surreal Willy Wonka-style coded album insert.
Petit has been busy this year with an historic 100 Club-saving campaign and performance saluted by The Times as “an axe maestro and gig worthy of a place in 100 Club folklore”, Gibson Guitars launching a Stephen Dale Petit Gibson Signature Model SG and a new 2012 album recorded in Martina McBride’s famous Blackbird Studios in Nashville with some of Music City’s best known names and blues heroes performing and recording
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