The long lost blues album from 2011. Unreleased originals plus songs by Sonny Boy Williamson, Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, ZZ Top, a tribute to late great J.J. Cale and more. Rootsy, raw, bluesy with lots of slide guitar. Now available in glorius HiRes-audio on Bandcamp. Includes PDF booklet with liner notes, production information and details on the instruments used for this album.

I have never seen myself as a blues artist. While the blues were (and still are) part of the foundation of what I do I rarely played blues music on stage or recorded blues songs. When I left my friend Detlev Hoegen’s fabulous label CrossCut Records (now part of Bear Family) and signed with Edgar Heckmann’s famed Americana label Blue Rose Records the idea of a CrossCut box set came up. The initial plan was to release the In Concert shows we did in 2001 with Sonny Landreth on DVD plus one disc with unreleased recordings from the CrossCut years. While sifting through archive material I realised that the time to record a blues album had come. So I did just that.
«Get A Move On» got finished in 2011 and has been sitting quietly on a shelf somewhere. The box set has never been completed (record business troubles, yadayadayada) but these songs by Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Randy Newman, ZZ Top, Bob Dylan, Nick Lowe as well as some unearthed originals never left the back of my head for long. Some of these made appearances in live shows over the years, like «Wait Till Summer Comes», a tribute to the late great J.J. Cale.
Now the time has come to release this «lost» album, remastered in HiRes-audio (24bit/44.1 kHz) for digital release. Consult the booklet PDF for liner notes about the songs and the production. This is the first in a series of digital only archival releases, to be continued in 2026. Available exclusively through Bandcamp. No streaming, can’t do that anymore.

Hank Shizzoe–Vocals, guitars, lap steel, bouzouki, banjo, saz
The Homesick Homewreckers:
Pop «Garlic» Slomo–Guitar
Tony «Fingers» Twinkle–Organ, harmonica
Hip «Hummer» Toldyaso–Bass
Fred «Bones» Above–Drums
The 20th Century Limited Jubilee Singers–Vocals on Train Song

Produced by Hank Shizzoe
Recorded and mixed at Capital Studios, mastered at Sportstudio
Chief Engineer: Joe Racine
Artwork by Monty Ward, Bakersfield, CA