{"id":2400,"date":"2009-06-30T17:02:54","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T21:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2009-06-30T17:02:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T21:02:54","slug":"elliott-the-untouchables-serve-up-southern-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/06\/30\/elliott-the-untouchables-serve-up-southern-stew\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott &amp; The Untouchables Serve Up Southern &#039;Stew&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/untouchables-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2404\" title=\"untouchables-color\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/untouchables-color-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This South Carolina blues band, <em>Elliot and The Untouchables<\/em>, spice up their vintage blues sound with the release of their latest album, <em>Voodoo Stew<\/em> (BluePoint Records).<\/p>\n<p>Elliott New (vocals, guitar), Mike &#8216;Naz&#8217; Nazarenko (harmonica), J.T. Anderson (bass), Sonny &#8220;D&#8221; Dickey (saxophone) and Jim Heidenreich (drums) showcase their blues fusion sound around the world, performing at various music festivals and opening for music legends such as Van Morrison at the <em>Rhythm &amp; Blues Festival<\/em> in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Their latest album features 12 original songs, recorded and produced in SONAR, and covers a variety of blues styles from jumpin&#8217; swing to the gritty &#8216;Mississippi swamp&#8217; blues. To incorporate the traditional bluesy sound with the new, Elliot started experimenting and building his own diddley bow, cigar-box guitars which the band uses in 4 tracks on the new CD.<\/p>\n<p>Listed among the <em>Top 5 Best Self-Produced CDs<\/em> by the International Blues Challenge and <em>Top 100 U.S. Blues Releases<\/em> by Real Blues Magazine, &#8216;Voodoo Stew&#8217; is the band&#8217;s 5th top-selling release under the BluePoint label. Suggested tracks include:<em> Voodoo Stew<\/em> (title track), <em>Blues Came Callin&#8217;<\/em>, <em>A Girl Like You<\/em>, and <em>Toss n&#8217; Turn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To hear clips from the new album visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elliottandtheuntouchables.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elliot &amp; The Untouchables official website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This South Carolina blues band, Elliot and The Untouchables, spice up their vintage blues sound with the release of their latest album, Voodoo Stew (BluePoint Records). Elliott New (vocals, guitar), Mike &#8216;Naz&#8217; Nazarenko (harmonica), J.T. Anderson (bass), Sonny &#8220;D&#8221; Dickey (saxophone) and Jim Heidenreich (drums) showcase their blues fusion sound around the world, performing at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2009\/06\/30\/elliott-the-untouchables-serve-up-southern-stew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elliott &amp; The Untouchables Serve Up Southern &#039;Stew&#039;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,49],"tags":[867,55,868,766,12,64,869,870,871,166,872,26,412,122,94,780,873,874,875,876],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-news","category-sonar","tag-americana","tag-artist-news","tag-bluepoint-records","tag-blues","tag-cakewalk","tag-daw","tag-elliott-the-untouchables","tag-festivals","tag-folk","tag-funk","tag-mississippi","tag-music","tag-new-release","tag-producer","tag-recording","tag-soul","tag-swamp-blues","tag-traditional","tag-van-morrison","tag-voodoo-stew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}