1. (00:03:44) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Run Devil Run
2. (00:02:26) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Boomerang
3. (00:03:59) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Tell Me You're Mine
4. (00:02:29) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Morning Glory
5. (00:04:42) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Bad Boy Blues
6. (00:04:35) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - If You Don't Love Me
7. (00:03:03) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Trouble
8. (00:02:42) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Long Gone
9. (00:04:30) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - How Many More Years
10. (00:01:56) Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - Heavy Loaded

Eric Sardinas – Vocals, Electrified Custom Dobro Resonators, Steel and Acoustic Resonators
Levell Price – Bass
Bryan Keeling – Drums
Eric Sardinas, Matt Gruber, Levell Price and Bryan Keeling - Background Vocals
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Dave Schulz – Keyboards on “Bad Boy Boogie”
Celine Cavin – Mojo Juice Harp
Kazoo’s by the Hilo Bay Honorary Brigade

LOOK OUT! Eric Sardinas & Big Motor are back with their third full-length album entitled ‘Boomerang’, it is Eric’s sixth album overall. He also has one three song EP in his discography. It is their first for Jazzhaus Records based out of Germany. Ever the road dogs, Eric Sardinas & Big Motor are currently touring overseas to promote the album. As of now, the album is available as an import but is set for a U.S. release in January 2015. *HINT* Hopefully the release will coincide with a U.S. tour! *HINT*

Big Motor is the powerhouse rhythm section of Mississippi native Levell Price on bass and Bryan Keeling on drums. Levell injected his Southern charm and influence as the founder of Big Motor back in 2005 having previously recorded and toured with Billy Tulsa & The Psycho Crawdads. Bryan replaced Chris Frazier who left to join Foreigner in 2012. Bryan has toured with Fuel, recorded and toured with Shooter Jennings & The .357’s from 2004-2010. He has also recorded with artists as diverse as Pink, Jessi Colter, Dionne Warwick and Damon Elliot. I’ve been a fan of Bryan’s since his days with Shooter Jennings so when I heard he had joined Eric Sardinas & Big Motor, I was stoked. ‘Boomerang’ marks Levell’s third album with Big Motor & Bryan’s first.

Eric Sardinas is not your typical guitarist in the sense of that he plays a Strat or Les Paul, unless he flies United Airlines, his weapons of choice are an assortment of customized and often electrified Dobro Resonators. Naturally left-handed, Eric plays them right-handed allowing his dominant hand to handle the fretwork accented by his signature Dunlop Preachin’ Pipe slide while his right hand uses a series of fingerpicks and a thumb pick to create a frenetic style that is uniquely his own. So impressive is his playing that the legendary Steve Vai has had Eric out multiple times on world tours that usually culminated in a nightly jam of Vai’s “The Attitude Song” with Vai, Sardinas, Billy Sheehan, Tony MacAlpine, Dave Weiner and others.

As Eric Sardinas recently stated “I want to bring straight Rock n’ Roll and Blues together and mix them up into my own thing.” Eric Sardinas & Big Motor do just that from the start of their new album as the opening track ‘Run Devil Run’ gets things going. This cut just reeks of attitude and aggression. I can’t wait to experience this one live as it should be intense. The solo flat smokes. Up next is the title track, ‘Boomerang’ and it quickly picks up where the first track left off but quickly hits a breakneck pace. Lyrically it is a unique take on the subject of relationships but after the first listen you get what the man is saying. No doubt you’ll be singing the chorus long after you quit listening to the song. ‘Tell Me You’re Mine’ brings the pace down just a bit and is a bit more groove oriented musically til later in the song. I really digg how Matt Gruber pans the guitars from left-to-right throughout the song and doesn’t bury Levell & Bryan in the mix on any of the album. Everyone sounds right in place and the sounds is crisp and clear.

‘Morning Glory’ is acoustically driven with a really swampy feel accented by some hauntingly gospel background vocals. I really digg when Eric does these type of songs live as he forgoes the mic for the acapella route and accents his acoustic playing with stomp percussion. We pick up the pace again with a rollicking shuffle ‘Bad Boy Blues’ that finds Dave Schulz adding to the flavor of the song with the addition of keys. Levell & Bryan lock the shuffle down tight on their respective instruments. The next tune, ‘If You Don’t Love Me’ has been a staple in the bands live show for several years so I THOUGHT I knew what to expect. I was wrong as it starts out rather subdued & acoustic giving a chance for Eric to showcase his finger picking, gaining intensity before Bryan announces his presence at the :41 mark and Levell joins in at the :48 mark bringing this rocker to a boil. Not only is it musically a little different but Eric reworked some of the lyrics and the addition of gang background vocals brings it up another step.

If you’re looking for trouble, you came to the right place as Eric Sardinas & Big Motor put their stamp on the Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller penned Elvis classic ‘Trouble’. They do it justice as this version has the swagger & attitude of Elvis’ version and the last 1:17 of the song shows the band just tearing it up at a turbo-charged pace. No doubt The King would be proud! Well done gents, well done! ‘Long Gone’ is another rocker that I hope to see done live soon. This is a perfect driving tune thanks to its driving tempo. Just make sure the cops aren’t around & do not try to replicate Bryan’s machine gun fire drum fill at the 2:15 mark on the steering wheel or dashboard, ya may hurt your hands! Levell lays down a galloping bass line as Bryan locks in the shuffle groove as Eric channels his inner Howlin’ Wolf on this arrangement of an old Chester Arthur Burnett classic, ‘How Many More Years’. The album comes to a close with ‘Heavy Loaded’. A song acoustically driven with a raucous bunch providing background vocals and instrumental support via a plethora of kazoo’s! The only way I can describe this tune is FUN. An interesting way to end the album to say the least!

In closing, this album captures the live juggernaut that is Eric Sardinas & Big Motor on tape, yes, I said tape because it was recorded to analog tape and only in post production did it see the light of today’s digital technology. I couldn’t imagine having Matt Gruber’s job in trying to capture the sound of Eric Sardinas & Big Motor in the studio. From the nuances in Eric’s picking & slide work to his approach vocally and let’s not forget the Big Motor part of this recording. Levell & Bryan just aren’t your typical Blues Rock sidemen, they are as tight of a rhythm section as you’ll find and are truly the motor that drives the shined up n’ hot rodded Cadillac that is Eric Sardinas & Big Motor! --- legendaryrockinterviews.com

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01 – Cherry Wine
02 – Road to Ruin
03 – Full Tilt Mama
04 – County Line
05 – Through the Thorns
06 – Burnin’ Sugar			play
07 – Ratchet Blues			play
08 – Behind the Flight
09 – Goodness
10 – Make It Shine
11 – Too Many Ghosts

Musicians:
Eric Sardinas (guitar, vocals)
Levell Price (bass)
Chris Frazier (drums)

Eric Sardinas has put his onstage lighting in a bottle for the new album Sticks And Stones, an 11-song odyssey that ricochets from die-hard country blues to stone boogie to romantic pop to flame-thrower rock ‘n’ roll.

"Playing with intensity all over the world non-stop and loving every minute of it has been my inspiration," Sardinas explains. "That’s why I get up in the morning and what I live for: making music that keeps me in the moment and has an original voice that speaks to people."

The common thread in all the tunes on Sticks And Stones is love, whether it’s between a man and a woman or simply the zest for life captured in numbers like the opener 'Cherry Wine'. "I like writing about universal themes," says Sardinas. "That’s another thing I have in common with the classic blues and soul artists. The trick is to find my own unique way of expressing myself within those themes." --- ericsardinas.co.uk

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   1. All I Need
   2. Ride
   3. Find My Heart
   4. Gone To Memphis
   5. It's Nothin' New
   6. This Time
   7. Just Like That
   8. Burning Love
   9. Wonderin' Blues
  10. Door To Diamonds
  11. As The Crow Flies

Eric Sardinas (slide guitar); 
Dave Schulz (organ); 
Levell Price (bass guitar); 
Patrick Caccia (drums); 
Stacie Plunk, Gia Ciambotti (background vocals). 

Playing sizzling slide guitar and dobro is only part of the equation. Writing good songs is the other, and that's where Eric Sardinas has come up short on his previous three releases. While the tunes on his fourth won't revolutionize the blues boogie genre where it seems he intends to reside for his career, they are better and more intricately arranged than in the past. The slashing slide shenanigans that get the shredder's pulses racing are slathered over the tracks as before, but there is greater emphasis on subtlety "this time" out. Credit guest keyboardist David Schulz and a pair of female backing singers for bringing a gospel feel to the music, also adding a touch of class that nicely balances the grinding groove. Surely nobody would confuse Sardinas' gritty voice for a soul singer, yet there is a newfound confidence to his approach that is certainly soulful. Tunes such as "Gone to Memphis" and "This Time" sport memorable choruses that are some of the guitarist's finest. Covers of the Elvis standard "Burning Love" and Tony Joe White by way of Rory Gallagher's "As the Crow Flies" don't add much to the originals but are far from embarrassments either. Stompers such as "Find My Heart" and "Just Like That" are reminiscent of the glory days of Southern rock, specifically Black Oak Arkansas, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Molly Hatchet, but with hotter, better delineated guitar. Sardinas moves into '70s hard rock territory with the Free/Bad Company influenced "Door to Diamonds" yet the arrangements are spacious enough to include his crunchy slide lines without sounding exaggerated. Those looking for a ballad to lighten the mood will need to search elsewhere because once Sardinas revs up his engine, there is no slowing down. Sturdy bass and drums from his Big Motor backing duo do their job and stay out of the way allowing the guitarist freedom to do his thing. Sardinas keeps the songs concise and tight, reins in the solos, and hugs the curves of this material with far more nuances than in the past. That makes this his finest effort yet and shows that he's a rugged blues-rocker with brains and brawn. ---Hal Horowitz, allmusic.com

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1. Flames Of Love
2. Same Ol' Way
3. Bittersweet
4. Ain't No Crime
5. Big Red Line
6. Liar's Dice Blues
7. Black Pearls
8. Sorrow's Kitchen
9 Four Roses
10. Old Smyrna Road
11. Tenfold Trouble
12. Wicked Ways

Eric Sardinas (vocals, guitar); 
Mike Duple (drums); 
Keith Johnson (programming).

Eric Sardinas is a good, even great, electric slide player, and his Dobro skills are equally as impressive. His band on Black Pearls, Paul Loranger on bass and Mike Dupke on drums, is also quite good. The problem here is the material. The songs, all written by Sardinas, are at the worst end of blues cliché. They sound good and rock hard, but in the end, you've heard all this said before, and probably better. Granted, blues feeds on recycled lyrics, and it is undoubtedly hard to find a new way to say "I've been down so long I'm gonna leave you," but it can be done (Otis Taylor comes immediately to mind). The highlights here -- the cheerful pop-blues of "Big Red Line," the bluegrass-paced Dobro work on "Old Smyrm Road" -- come on songs that step a little bit outside the blues-boogie template. ---Steve Leggett, allmusic.com

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01 - Treat Me Right
02 - Write Me A Few Lines
03 - Murdering Blues
04 - Cherry Bomb
05 - My Baby's Got Something
06 - Give Me Love
07 - Rolin' And Tumblin'
08 - Low Down Love
09 - Get Along Rider
10 - Goin' To The River
11 - I Can't Be Satisfied
12 - Sweetwater Blues
13 - Down In The Bottom
14 - Tired Of Tryin'

Personnel includes: 
Eric Sardinas (vocals, guitar, dobro); 
Johnny Winter (vocals, guitar); 
Hubert Sumlin (guitar); 
Paul Loranger (acoustic & electric bass); 
Scott Palacios (drums, percussion).

If you buy into all the hype and the look, then all your standard journalistic clichés about "a man playing like he was possessed" would certainly seem to apply in the case of this record. Eric Sardinas has only one groove, and that's the one with the pedal put firmly to the metal. Playing electric Dobro gives his sound a raw, distorted edge right down to the wah-wah pedal that flirts with comparisons to George Thorogood and other ham-fisted slide rockers (he plays unamplified on his originals "Cherry Bomb," "Goin' to the River," and "Sweetwater Blues"), although Sardinas is a considerably more able player than Thorogood. Comparisons with Johnny Winter would also not be unfounded; he makes a guest appearance here on vocal and guitar on his "Tired of Tryin'." Hubert Sumlin is also brought aboard to reprise his original rhythm part of "Down in the Bottom," although he's totally swamped in the mix by Sardinas' over the top bombast, both vocally and instrumentally. Fans of the Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, and George Thorogood style of blues-rock will want to add this one to the collection. ---Cub Koda, allmusic.com

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01. Piece of Me
02. My Sweet Time
03. Texola
04. Aggravatin’ Papa
05. Killin’ Time Blues
06. My Kind of Woman
07. Country Mile
08. Gambling Man Blues
09. Down to Whiskey
10. Devil’s Train
11. Be Your Man
12. Sidewinder
13. 8 Goin’ South

Personnel: 
Eric Sardinas (vocals, guitar); 
Paul Loranger (bass); 
Scott Palcios (drums);
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David Honeyboy Edwards – guitar, vocals, producer.

Sardinas led a trio through a high-energy set of rocky roadhouse blues-rock on his second album. Given how tired the format sounds after being exploited by innumerable performers for many years, and also how much better the best of such practitioners are at the format, it's questionable whether another entry in this overcrowded field was unnecessary. Sardinas' skills as a technically accomplished, if somewhat bombastic and unimaginative, blues guitarist are undoubted. His hoarse, blustery vocals are another matter, as is the over-the-top macho posturing of his original songs. It's better when, as the cliché goes, he just shuts up and plays his guitar, as on the instrumental "Texola," or when he tones down the throaty strain of his vocals at least a little, as on the uncharacteristically laid-back closer, "8 Goin' South." Perhaps fans of George Thorogood looking for something in a more headbanging vein may dig this, but here's voting that Sardinas is more properly placed as a sideman than a frontman. He duets with Mississippi bluesman David "Honeyboy" Edwards, incidentally, on "Gambling Man Blues." --- Richie Unterberger, Rovi

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