Tom Rodwell - Wood & Waste

Cult K'Rd calypso-blues artist Tom Rodwell hits Nelson on March 23 playing at Fairfield House.

Roots guitar music is rarely as evocative as on Tom Rodwell’s Wood & Waste, an album that moves easily between raw pre-rock structures and darkly sensual grooves, just as his on-stage group Storehouse speaks a secret language of rhythm & blues - vivid, propulsive and uncommon.

Although the LP charted on US radio (notching up 7 months of rotation), gained international media coverage and secured distribution with the legendary Cargo Records UK, Wood & Waste flew mostly under the radar in New Zealand, launching just as Omicron washed ashore.

The Listener’s Graham Reid was one who did take note, naming it one of his top albums of the year. “The subtle and supple shapeshifting Wood & Waste reveals depths and delights at every turn,” he wrote.

Consequently, a much-anticipated 14-date NZ concert series over late summer seeks to redress the balance, trafficking rolling and tumbling treatments of Wood & Waste material, alongside new tunes from recent tape studio sessions, stretches of improvisation and sacrilegious dives into a greasy barrel of calypso and gospel obscurities.

* Saturday March 4 - Artworks Theatre / Waiheke Island (BAND)
* Saturday March 11 - Pioneer Hall / Port Chalmers (DUO)
* Saturday March 17 - Opera House / Oamaru (solo)
* Sunday March 18 - Wunderbar / Lyttelton (solo)
* Thursday March 23 - Fairfield House / Nelson (solo)
* Friday March 24 - Chanel Arts Centre / Motueka (solo)
* Saturday March 25 - Mussel Inn / Golden Bay (solo)
* Saturday April 15 - The Yard / Raglan (BAND)
* Sunday April 16 - Jam Factory / Tauranga (solo)
* Wednesday April 19 - Meow, Wellington (BAND)
* Friday April 21 - St Peter's Hall, Paekakariki (BAND)
* Sunday April 23 - Meteor Theatre, Hamilton (solo)
* Saturday April 29 - OneOneSix / Whangarei (BAND)

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“You won’t find a more individual, eclectic, rhythmically compelling approach to this music, anywhere.” - Nick Bollinger, Radio NZ.

"Rodwell manages to eschew the cliches that beset blues music. By turns wild, angry, hypnotic and sensual, it's as uncompromising as it is funky and some of the best live music I've seen." - Blues in London.

“Beautiful tunes, beautiful grooves - you don’t hear that anymore, man!” Derek Trucks (The Allman Brothers).