GUNSMOKE BROTHERS BAND: Band of Brothers (2024)

Hear ye hear ye good people! The veteran Breton bard guitarist singer songwriter Xavier Quémet, one of the pioneers in France of southern rock with his group Bounty Hunter who released in 1986 a very good vinyl album “On the hunt” followed by a furious single in 1988, with a tribute to Ronnie Van Zant, the title "Last fly (song for Ronnie)", then in 1994 a CD “Chilli Party”, is now doing it again for our greatest pleasure with a group called Gunsmoke Brothers Band, with a first album of the fire of God called “Band of Brothers”, containing twelve tracks where the three guitars held by Xavier Quémet and the two brothers Ar Beleg, Seb and Nico, are queens. The bass-drums groove is solidly developed by Tony “Todd” Vasar and Thibault Menut. The southern adventure begins with “Liar Pigs” with a royal influence from Molly Hatchet who lights up the album on several tracks like “Bringing You Back To Me”, the album title “Band Of Brothers”, “A Place In The Sun”, “Big Tits Sweet Lips” and "The Hangman's Tree". He also rekindles with conviction the flame of the guitar duels of the Hlubeck/Holland/Roland trio of Molly Hatchet on the epic track “Song For The Brave”, endowed with the fluidity of Molly Hatchet's “Fall Of The Peacemakers”. He changes register on the tracks “Only Love” and “Kiss And Goodbye” with the scent of another “guitar army”: Hughie Thomasson's Outlaws. This album is truly a “skid” ("disc") which skillfully restores the atmosphere of “old school Southern Rock Hard Rock”, and I think will delight more than one.

Jacques Dersigny
Translation : Y. Philippot-Degand