Tone Deaf presents Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk single launch. With support from Firebird.
For two and a half years, Chicken Walk was just Chris playing solo with just an open tuned sea foam green Danelectro and a Goldentone reverbmaster for company on stage. His annual pilgrimages with his wife to the Mississippi Delta facilitated his evolution from sitting in with the local living masters, to performing the prized Juke Joints with Cadillac John Nolden, The Corn Lickers, Cameron Kimbrough and Lightnin’ Malcolm.
2011 solidified Chris as a songwriter and performer, playing countless shows across Australia and America, including a memorable performance with highly regarded U.S. two piece Old Gray Mule on their Australian tour. By that december, Dean Muller (Cosmic Psychos) had joined on drums and this newly evolved two piece live sound seems impossibly larger than the sum of its parts, filling rooms with hypnotic boogie bypassing the mind and heading straight for the hips. Endless, droning, head nodding ol’ North Mississippi Hill Country blues. They have since shared the stage with Graveyard Train and Gary Clark Jr.
To date, Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk have released a debut 7 inch record featuring the boot stompin’ tune Don’t Hook It To The Mule”, backed with a lowdown, aching version of Willie Dixon and Koko Taylor’s “Insane Asylum” released on limited-run Melbourne label Cobra Snake Necktie Records.
Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk: Hottest blues act in Australia. The ‘Boot hit’ of Golden Plains.
Chris Russell’s Chicken Walk play Cherry Bar night with internationally acclaimed FIREBIRD. The bands members have played with Wanda Jackson and The Brian Setzer Orchestra. All attendees will receive a FREE download of our new secret single. This is gonna be a big one on Friday 28th June.
