New CD is top round

By Charley Lawrence
spotlight@seacoastonline.com

If this were a soundtrack, I’d go see the movie. Thick and juicy with just enough of a plot to keep you in your seat, "Close That Window" opens the new disc by local blues aficionados Roundhouse, inviting you to sample their unapologetically rootsy flavor blues.

Like any good bar band worth its salt, Roundhouse moves smoothly from slow and gritty delta numbers into faster, more danceable swing tunes like "High Class Man" without jarring the audience. They also sound like they are genuinely having fun playing their music…It never sounds labored or forced.

Mike "Bullfrog" Rogers does some down right tasty harp work and handles the bulk of the lead vocals alternating occasionally with Buddy Shute who handles some guitar and piano as well. The rest of this quintet is fleshed out by DW Graf, guitar, Joe Harding, bass and Joe Rogers on drums.

Roundhouse 2005

Roundhouse will be having a CD release party Saturday, March 5 at Cap’n Simeon’s just over the bridge in Kittery, Maine. It promises to be a good time and it will even fit in your budget as there is no cover charge. Go and check ‘em out. They may even let you sit in!

On Saturday, March 19, at 9 p.m., the band celebrates once more at the Press Room. Admission is $5.

For information, visit www.roundhouseblues.com.

Charley Lawrence is broke. G-mail him at justplainguitarded@gmail.com for sponsorship opportunities and if you see him, give him a dollar. Beer is expensive in Portsmouth.

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