Same Player Shoot Again - Our King Albert (2021) [Hi-Res]

In 2018, this young band formed by the cream of Parisian musicians decided to record a tribute to the king of blues guitarists Freddie King. "Our King Freddie" was such a success for a first opus that the band was pushed to the limit... A Cahors Blues Festival 2019 Award and a great tour later, they are back in the studio, this time for a tribute to Albert King... "Our King Albert" is released on June 4th, 2021. Same Player Shoot Again was founded by Romain Roussouliere (guitar) and Max Darmon (bass). The band was later joined by Vincent Vella (vocals), Florian Robin (keyboards), Steve Belmonte (drums), Jérome Cornelis (alto sax) and Loic Gayot (tenor sax). The band grew up in this music. One could even say that the blues is endemic in some of them. The choice of the artist to pay tribute to is natural, the selection of titles is collegial, rather happy and each tribute highlights with great virtuosity titles sometimes rare or even unknown to the public.

In 1974 Freddie King released the album ‘Burglar,’ in which point we noticed a fusion of blues and funk. It is that same album that inspired Same Player Shoot Again to record their previous album ‘Our King Freddie’ (2018) with the same common idea trying to rekindle the sounds of an era. The band’s name – ‘Same Player shoot again’ – is a reference to the pinball world of the seventies. The original artwork for the album covers is by the well-known and talented Frank Margerin.