"The blues aren't something you learn in music
class,but something that you scrape off the bottom of
your shoe'" -author unknown
1.Hand Me Down Blues
2.Pretty Blue Colour
3.Breathing
4.Help Me Jesus
5.What Is Your Life?
6.Purple Heart,Silver Cross
7.Hand Me Down Blues (Acoustic Version)
8.Back to Egypt Blues (Bonus Track)
ORDER YOUR COPY OF THIS BONAFIDE BLISTERIN' BLUES ROCK
ALBUM TODAY!
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WORDS AND MUSIC
"...if you like your Christian rock with an
edge,then Tommy Wales is your man, and Wales Road is
your band! Still supporting their latest full-length
,BLuR, Wales Road have another release in the bag with
Cowkickers.
Recorded live at a recent concert, the disc is an
excellent showcase of Tommy's smokin' guitar
prowness and gruff vocal style. He really kickes it
out on the garage-rock styled,'What Is Your Life' and
gets gritty on the now-classic 'Hand Me Down Blues'.
..."
Michelle Picardo
Words and Music
Freetime Magazine
Sept 2004
SHORT TAKES
"The man is righteous but his red guitar borders on
evil. With his trio, WALESROAD, Tom Wales mixes
bluesy,almost classic metal riffs with a message you
wouldn't ordinarily get from music this heavy.
Influences that may seem apparent, like Zeppelin or
Sabbath or Grand Funk, Wales actually doesn't listen
to - never has. The man plays from the heart and
testifies...."
-Frank De Blase
CITY MAGAZINE
November 2,2004
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CREATIONS
"The term 'Christian Music' is a bigger tent than the
name applies,a larger canopy than, say, other fairly
big tents like the country,jazz or rock umbrellas. Its
sole unifying factor is its subject matter - how thats
expressed and the sonic means by which its done varies
from artist to artist,interpreter to interpreter.
Under the tent you'll find Gregorian chant and
Beethoven's 'Ode To Joy' and the exuberant calls to
worship of the black church; Duke Ellington's sacred
compositions and Bob Dylan's late 70's born-again
expressions and the various hues of the 'contemporary
Christian music' spectrum - MOR to hardcore to
big-band jazz. The Penn Yan band 'O.F.C' - for 'Our
Fathers Children' - and the Rochester Band Wales Road
exemplify the diversity found in faith-based music....
Wales Road has had assorted line-ups and assorted
stylings - from the neofolk/blues started with to the
most modern rock sounds of recent albums like 'BLuR'.
At the center, though, have been the voice and words
of Tom Wales of Rochester,a lyricist who views songs
as psalms to God (sometimes praises,sometimes
laments), a guitarist who more than knows his way
around a blues lick.
For fans of that bluesier side of Wales' musical
personality,the band recently released 'Cowkickers',
an eight-song tour of Wales' catalog filtered thru
blue shades. Included are electric and acoustic
versions of 'Hand Me Down Blues', one of Wales'
signatures; a blues-rock reading of the usual gentle
'Help Me Jesus', and a bonus track recalling the
Israelite wilderness wanderings, 'Back To Egypt
Blues'. "
- L. David Wheeler
Daily Messenger
Sunday, November 7,2004
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