Paul and Rich's final full album together. Features many renditions of Blues and R&B classics. The duo also presents a new arrangement of their popular Blues shuffle "Clarksdale".
Suffering through the COVID pandemic under boredom and stress of the shutdown of the live music industry, Paul and Rich declared that they would never give up! Keeping a commitment to their initial pledge upon taking their name years ago; they promise to work hard and rise to the occasion, to be Twice As Good.
Richard became sick with COVID that summer and suffered from the symptoms but recovered. His first and only debut as the lead singer appears on this album on the song, "I'm Placing My Bet," an ode to his steadfast position to never stop fighting. The true Blues man that he was!
This album had 2 tracks featured on SiriusXM Radio B.B. King's Bluesville station; "Everything's Gonna Be All Right," and "That's All I Need." The album was also nominated for the Blues Album of the Year by the Native American Music Awards and the Independent Music Awards. Recorded and produced in Santa Rosa at Four Legends Studios.
Sharing pride for their hometown, the small town next to their Indian reservation, Paul and Rich sing about the desire to go back home and live the simple life and the title track of the album. This album also features a popular rendition of Matt "Guitar" Murphy's song "The Blues Don't Bother Me" and a rocked up ZZ Top'ish take of Slim Harpo's "Shake Your Hips" that has become Twice As Good's signature tune.
A limited special release physical CD album only containing previously unreleased live and studio material.
Twice As Good's first album of original songs since their debut. Inspired by their tour the previous year across the USA down to Mississippi to perform at the Clarksdale Juke Joint Festival, they wrote the song "Clarksdale" featured here. They also recorded their popular rendition of Wilson Pickett's "Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You". This album was nominated and won the 2010 Native American Music Award's 'Best Blues Recording' category; Twice As Good was also featured performing at the awards ceremony in Niagara Falls, NY at the Seneca Niagara Resort.
While performing for an Indian Health Service convention event at Pala Casino in Southern California, Twice As Good asked the sound engineer to record the show...the concert was awesome, the recording was awesome, and the rest is history.
Their follow up album, a collection of all cover songs. These tunes were popular songs in their live shows that the fans requested and tunes that Twice As Good wanted to showcase their Bluesy sound.
This is Twice As Good's debut album, featuring 8 original songs in their style of house-rockin' blazing guitar and dance rhythm style Blues. It's rough and unpolished, just like those early days. Twice As Good produced the album, winning a prize from a battle-of-the-bands contest at Coyote Valley Casino the previous year. The prize included 4 hours of free studio time, which is what birthed this album.
In 2001, Paul at the age of 16 and Rich at the age of 50 made friends with Andy Campbell (bass guitar) of Colusa Rancheria and Jason Fred (drums) from Big Valley Rancheria who was living at Colusa Rancheria at the time; later, Vernon Burrows of Grindstone Rancheria joined as well as second drummer; they came together to form a band. They jammed a lot of Blues in a Stevie Ray Vaughan type of style playing a few gigs around Northern California including the grand opening of Rolling Hills Casino in 2002 and the 2nd Annual Native American Blues Festival presented by the Native American Music Awards at Soboba Casino in 2002, and a Native American Blues Band Festival at Robinson Rancheria Casino which is pictured on the album cover.