With ripping blues riffs, charged and electric vocals and more power than you can shake a stick at, The Albert Frost Blues Trio played the DSG Hall on 3 July to a full house.
With ripping blues riffs, charged and electric vocals and more power than you can shake a stick at, The Albert Frost Blues Trio played the DSG Hall on 3 July to a full house.
Frost attended his first National Arts Festival at age 17 with his step-father's band in 1994. In 2013 he returns, an act on the Festival Main music programme with a blues show and several gigs lined up at the Lowlander Jazz and Blues Cafe.
Frost released the intensely bluesy album Devils & Gods in 2009 and was voted Best Blues Guitarist in South Africa by Stage Magazine.
Blues musicians are notorious for borrowing from one another, which over the years led to an established sound from which Frost's sound originates.
Other influences of this premier South African blues musician include Howlin' Wolf and Hendrix.
"Yeah, Jimi, he's my main man," Frost says on stage, before ripping into an old Hendrix classic.
The show was played at ear-splitting volume, though no one complained.
The crowd was quiet during the pieces but erupted wildly at each conclusion and at the end of the particularly impressive solos, of which there were many.
Frost and bassist Schalk Joubert play off one another, making for an extraordinarily tight set. Frost pays homage to the blues greats and does them proud, playing and singing with the same passion and raw honesty that they did.
The late-night Lowlander Jazz and Blues Cafe gets cracking at 11.30pm on Friday 5 July and will blast its final blues session Saturday 6 July starting the same time.
