Iconic Australian blues group – Backsliders – are leaders and virtual pioneers in their own genre – ‘delta-blues wall of sound’. As a three piece, they can lift the roof off any venue – moving from straight ahead, in your face, ‘amped up’ original blues – ‘Blues ’not ‘Roots’ that is – to ‘all-acoustic’ unplugged ‘way down south’ delta blues. These guys have been writing, recording & performing acoustic-based blues for nearly 25 years – even before ‘roots and blues’ became a catch-phase with bands across the country. Multi-media celebrity, Doug Mulray describes them as ‘the best acoustic blues band in the country’…. Download the complete Backsliders Biography 2011
Backsliders Stage Plot and Inputs 2012
“The Backsliders, Dom Turner’s over-driven steel guitar and Rob Hirst’s hyper-bombastic drumming wield a blues
that is much louder, much more raucous, than blues-inspired rock acts like The
White Stripes and The Black Keys” FasterLouder.com.au.
“From Turner’s resonator came menacing
voodoo-blues sounds that conjured images of a bad moon rising over a fog-laden
bayou; while Hirst provided the sound of your heart drumming as you feared what
lurked beneath” FasterLouder.com.au.
“Dom Turner is my all-time favourite guitar player” Bill Hauritz, Founder and Director Woodford Folk Festival – 8th May 2007
“An ocean of beats and blues” – Pacific Longboarder
“this is the best acoustic blues band in the country” – Doug Mulray
“move over Jon Spencer, Dom Turner’s blues explosion has come of age” – Drum Media
“taking the sounds and smells of the delta blues
and giving it an Australian taste” ..”contemporary roots music at its best” –
Drum Media
‘…Australia’s top blues act….” – Rhythms Magazine
“without a dispute the best blues band in
Australia. Their material is impeccable and their musicianship is a wonder to
behold” – Sydney Morning Herald