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With New Orleans swagger, a large cup of soul, a spoonful of blues, and a dash of jazz noir, Steve Boyd’s Rum Reverie hoots and hollers. Imagine Tom Waits meeting Hound Dog Taylor in Bourbon St, New Orleans and you’re getting close. The sound is heartfelt and raw, the influences primal and instinctive. Steve Boyd’s Rum Reverie is essentially the brainchild of Paul Fiddles and Steve Boyd. With a wealth of creative experience, both brutal and beautiful, their respective pasts intertwine in the music of the band. Not just collaborators but life-long friends, the project was conceived over many late nights of shared musings and quaffing of wine to a shared soundtrack of old vinyl records. And what did they listen to? What amalgam of sounds ended up coalescing into Steve Boyd’s Rum Reverie? Try The Clash, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Bo Diddley, John Lee Hooker, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Miles Davis, Bette Davis,