The Jondo Trio ( JD3) Whatchucan ( Blues Men Channel Blues Rock Super Hits)

The Best Band You ve Never Heard Something Good is almost too humble of a title for JD3 s new album, as the band s songwriting and playing has ratcheted up a number of notches. The 11 tracks quickly bring to mind echoes of everything from Stevie Ray Vaughn to Otis Redding to CCR, but, with a deeper dive, those easy touchstones all meld together into JD3 s own special brand of the blues. It always comes back to the blues, comments singer, guitarist Nate Mosley. I got into the blues almost by accident as a kid. I had a record player that couldn t play 45s, so I listened to the first record I ever bought, Don t Bring Me Down, by ELO, at 33 the wrong speed and what came out of the speakers was unmistakably blues. The vocals were lower, the tempo was slower and everything had this power that just grabbed me. And through sheer coincidence, that low end was the singing voice I ended up having Mosley formed the ban