Nashville-based guitarist, singer and songwriter JD Simo will release his new album, ‘Songs From The House Of Grease’, on 13th January 2023. Recorded with his trio (completed by drummer Adam Abrashoff and bassist Todd Bolden), JD has previously stated that "this album is a live snapshot of me and the fellas playing some favourite tracks that hadn't been captured yet on record. I couldn't be prouder of this, as it...
Nashville-based guitarist, singer and songwriter JD Simo has today released a new single entitled ‘Afro Blue’, the second to be lifted from his forthcoming album ’Songs From The House Of Grease’. Ostensibly an interpretation of John Coltrane’s arrangement of the minor key jazz standard by Mongo Santamaria, the sultry and slinky instrumental contrasts with its immediate predecessor, which was an incendiary cover of the classic ‘Mortgage On My Soul' by...
Nashville-based guitarist, singer and songwriter JD Simo has today released a new single entitled ‘Mortgage On My Soul’. A creative and incendiary cover of the classic song by hill country blues pioneer Mississippi Fred McDowell, JD explains: “I just really dug the words and I also love the hypnotic vibe of his style. Over the course of a few months we started doing it during soundchecks and Adam [Abrashoff, drummer]...
The Chicago-born but Nashville-based singer, songwriter and guitarist JD Simo has today issued a second single from his upcoming new album, ‘Mind Control’. Entitled ‘That’s When You Know That You’re Down’, JD explains that “I wrote the song late one night after listening to a bunch of Captain Beefheart and it has definitely got a lot of his influence. The riff itself is a take on an old Magic Sam...
Chicago-born and current Nashville resident JD Simo merges psychedelic soul, funk and R&B with the blues for which he is best known on a recently released new single ‘One Of Those Days’, which is taken from his self-titled second solo album due out in late August. A well-respected guitarist and singer who fronted the blues rock band SIMO in the 2010’s, his recent recordings have seen him experiment with sound...
