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Trevor Horsfall….expatriate British bluesman now calling Canada home is the author of a fresh, diverse and highly charged Southern Rock Blues CD..."Feel the Heat". An anecdotal collection of songs based on his experiences while touring the southland, the style ranges from country blues with an edge through to power packed, raunchy blues rock. Comparisons are made to artists JJ Cale, Johnny Winter through to Jimi Hendrix. "Feel The Heat" has been released to great fan fare and reviews in both North America and Europe. Horsfall draws his influences from Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Mark Knoppler, Dave Gilmore, Billy Gibbons, Johnny Winters, Stevie Ray Vaughn and many others. Raised in Blackpool, England, a performing hub for bands such as The Beatles and Stones, the guitar seemed like a natural part of life to Trevor. Being a veteran of the early British Rock & Blues revolution, Horsfall, or "Trevor Luv" as he is affectionately known in the southern states, has spent years honing his craft while touring North America and particularly the Deep South. Enjoying air time in Europe, Australia and the United States, "Feel the Heat" is a must listen for any Blues Rock/Southern Rock enthusiast.
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Horsfall's Feel the Heat is a blues infused fret driven collection of songs that over the course of 40 minutes and change covers quite a bit of musical territory. I should start off by stating right up front this disc took me a few spins to appreciate Trevor has one of those voices that took me a few listens to peg. He reminds me a little bit of John Hiatt mixed with bits of Chris Rea . What Trevor Horsfall really brings to the table is his playing: He is a very solid player and when he cuts loose he really is a hell of a picker and Trevor is smart enough as a singer to stay in his comfort zone as a vocalist. There are a few killer tracks on Feel the Heat, and they give the entire disc a lift. "Lone Star Train" is a great groove complete with sound effects. Trevor's fret work brings to mind Knopfler from "Brothers in Arms". "Slippin' and Sliding'" is a smokin' tune and my favourite on the disc. Trevor's voice fits this to a tee, and his playing put a big ass grin on my face. It's a wicked piece of music. "Headin' Home" contains some of the best solo work on the disc and was something you'd expect from David Gilmour. It's really something to hear. I have to say that this is a good album and one I played quite a bit this past month. If blues rock is your thing you'll find quite a bit to like here. You could say "Stratification" is guaranteed.
Reviewed March 31, 2009
by, Jevon the Tall
banophernalia.com

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Horsfall - Feel The Heat

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Editor’s Pick: Blues-Rock
. CD / / Release date: 2009 - Exciting blues-rock disc of singer and guitarist Trevor Horsfall, who is the great and hot Stratocaster plays and sings on top, these are Matt Horner at the Hammond B3, and the piano, Bob Tunnoch ( b) and Tom Eakin (dr) - Here comes the blues-rock discoveries of the Year! CD of the Canadian singer and guitarist, inspirations, from Eric Clapton's 461 Ocean Boulevard - time to think about JJ Cale, Walter Trout, up to Johnny Winter, ZZ Top, and Jimi Hendrix rich - and it does mix - Also, and especially because of the magnificent production of Atmosphere and songs first.
One look at the Blues opened the CD-pounder Back To New Orleans, which sounds like Johnny Winter to his best times, the loose grooving One More Second Chance, the'80s and My 57 Chevy and the no less impressive Lone Star Train, both of which sound as if JJ Cale powerful at the upgraded electric guitar, while Horsfall at every corner small guitar licks accommodates the numbers continue anschieben!
. Heavy on the blues Time For A Change shines Horsfall as well as on the acoustic intro with a supporting boogie-rockers Slippin 'and Slidin'. Headin 'Home, a fine melancholy slow blues, is probably the highlight of this CD. Slide Guitar refine fats That Ride Dream, Feel the Heat comes as exciting blues ballad, and therefore his early influences Trevor Horsfall documented in the Jimi Hendrix and Hey Joe-style dargebrachten Not Forgotten. : This is a blues-rock CD with soul, varied song material, to produce clean and transparent - here for the true lovers of all genres.

Created by Michael Knippschild Germany


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. Trevor Horsfall's "Feel The Heat", is an interesting mixture of tunes, and I do mean mixture. His style is hard to pin down and the CD will remind you about a lot of artists, some blues, some rock, some pop, and a bit of country rock. I particularly thought it was unique that he added a few sound effects into his songs, something I have not heard before from previously submitted CD's.
Trevor Horsfall's "Feel The Heat" is certainly an album that will start to get people talking about this fine and creative artist. 
"Feel The Heat" is a well put together effort that is guaranteed to please all whom have the opportunity and good fortune to listen to it, especially those that like their music guitar driven.

John Vermilyea (Blues Underground Network)

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The little information I have of Horsfall is that he comes from Canada, but his lyrics are about New Orleans, Texas, Highway 95, ‘across the USA’ etc., so it could just as easy be an American. What I do know is that with ‘Feel The Heat’ he delivered a very nice CD. Ten songs, all written by singer/guitarist Trevor Horsfall and drummer Tom Eakin. The other band members are Matt Horner on keyboards and Bob Tunnoch on bass. The lyrics don’t have too much depth and are about subjects like trains, cars, bikes and broken relationships. De producer tends to add fitting sound bites to the songs, in ‘Lone Star Train’ we hear a train and gunshots, in ‘My 57 Chevy’ the engine of a car, in ‘Ride That Dream’ (about bikes) a bike-engine. And so we can find a couple more. We have a diverse selection of song, which are pleasant to listen to, like ‘Back To New Orleans’, a Lonnie Brooks-style blues/rocker, ‘One More Second Change, which could have been a Bryan Adams song, ‘Feel The Heat’, the title track, is a real fine bluesy tune, and the closing song ‘Not Forgotten’, has good Jimi Hendrix-like guitar playing, while you also hear country and boogie influences on this album. A really pleasant CD to listen to and when Horsfall finds a way to visit Europe to play live, I’m sure he will positively surprise quite a few people.

By Ton Kok Bobtje's Blues Pages