Blues

Mike Goudreau has returned to more stripped-down blues on new CD - “The Grass Ain’t Greener” (no horns) with a solid backline of artists who have obviously played together for a long time and it shows.

Mike Goudreau on vocals & guitar
Nino Carlo Fabi or Lorrie Goodman on organ/piano
Daniel Poulin on bass
Patrick Morin or Richard Bergeron (founding member of the Boppin’ Blues Band) on drums.

Pop it in the player and have a listen. I like all the songs (note that 8 of the 12 are all original compositions) but if I have to choose favorites I would pick Too Good To Be True – classic swingin’, boppin’ Goudreau blues, Mercury Blues – arranged like you have never heard it before, Give It To The Lord – a beautiful spiritual song that just makes ya feel good and the title track The Grass Ain’t Greener which should get everybody up on the dance floor unless they’re deaf or dead!

"Go for it Mike! The grass just might be greener on the other side this time around. I hope so. You deserve it"

Intro by James Doran -Choose the Blues Productions Smiths Falls, Ontario, www.choosetheblues.ca

The Grass Ain’t Greener and other Mike Goudreau/Boppin’ Blues CD’s are available at good independent record stores and through
Les Productions Bros in Montreal www.bros.ca

Mike Goudreau was rocked from the cradle by the voices of Nat King Cole,. Frank Sinatra, Elvis and the Beatles. As a musician, he travelled the requisite roads of classic rock and country music, and moulded his style in the wake of Albert King and Kenny Burrel, whose traces'can be felt to this day.

From his very first contacts with blues, he started the Boppin' Blues Band, with his crony Richard Bergeron. Since then, the band has performed on television, in all sorts of festivals and special events, on hundreds of stages big and small, and has earned many titles and distinctions. Mike Goudreau Lays claim to four albums with the Boppin' Blues Band.

With those albums containing many original pieces, Mike Goudreau and the Boppin' Blues Band have demonstrated the multiple voices of blues, proving it can also be sung in French!

Mike Goudreau & Friends can certainly achieve the highest of Jazz standards with songs made popular be the Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Mel Torme.

In the hands of the pros - Jazz at its purest state...