ROUND-UP: BLUES
Tim Holehouse
Come AAAHH!!! REAL
In a genre that can be stubbornly conformist, it’s always a pleasure to hear a bluesman breaking out of his lane. Tim Holehouse has never exactly been a dogma-reciting 12-bar bore – the highly prolific Plymouth songwriter’s lo-fi mutant would probably have made Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Festival crowd drop a bollock. But adds another string to his bow, wearing its country influences lightly while birthing the most accessible songs that he’s shown us in a career now spanning 15 years.
