Review
The Farm
Bradley Boy
Get Bent/ Transistor 66
A mix of Neil Diamond's spiritual timbre, Bob Dylan's squawky harmonica, Tom Waits' junkhouse guitar, the latest from Orono, Ontario's orator of Blackgrass blues is a hit. His one-man jack-of-all-trades band has created a muscular and sensitive love song to his heart and hearth. A self-reliant DIY attitude has manifested itself in a slow cooker of Depression-era sounding folk. It's timing may never be more perfect. Rather than just resting on his grassy laurels BBoy has dug deeper into his craft and by going deeper into the past, he has emerged with a present for us all. The track What Came Went is the one that has the Reverend Blue Jeans vibe but, and I'm going out on a skinny limb, the track Believe could have been written for Lenny Kravitz. Abel Renton is the co-producer here but everything else is Bradley Boy.(William McGuirk,durhamregion.com)
Now Magazine The Scene ( July 10th /09) : Shows That Rocked Toronto... " Using a suitcase for a bass drum and working a hi-hat pedal with his other foot, Bradleyboy employs guitar, banjo and harmonica to create a thumping, throbbing pulse that’s complemented by his gravelly growl. His sparse arrangements leave no room for the mindless noodling that mars so much contemporary blues music...how many solo acoustic acts can get a packed bar shimmying on the dance floor. By Benjamin Boles "NOW"
HERO HILL SATURDAY MORNING BLUEGRASS Nova Scotia (July 25/09) BRADLEYBOY IS BAD ASS: With his suitcase bass drum, single high hat, gruff vocals and ripping harmonica he's tailor made for anyone that digs on one-man acts like Seasick Steve.But the Orono resident has more to offer than just the swampy blues and riding the rails type tales. He's got the steady as a freight train, Cash like guitar strums on tracks like 40 Days and the ability to transform his foot stomping energy into some remarkably tender moments.
Review
Ben Rayner
The Star
Bradleyboy, Rock/Wood. Stompin' roots ..n' roll iconoclast Bradley "Bradleyboy" MacArthur has lately become one of my favourite live acts, thanks to his semi-regular gigs with the fine folks in catl at the Dakota Tavern. A gruff, frantically strummin'-and-pickin' powerhouse onstage, the burly one-man band from Orono is considerably more nuanced and imposingly impressive in an entirely different way on record. The terrific new Rock/Wood covers all the bases between creaky country ballads and blazing dirt-floor blues, oozing grease and no small amount of hillbilly-Gothic menace from every pore the whole time. "Carpenter's Daughter" and "Diving Bell" are truly haunting, establishing MacArthur as as fine a storyteller as he is a songwriter and minimalist musician
LIVE+LOVE+CREATE=EXPESSION+PEACExBEING
AN EQUATION
A WAY OF LIFE
B-BOY
DISCOGRAPHY
EARLY RELEASES RED ROOM
PORKY(Jan/03)
ONE STEP(Apr/03)
NOWHERE IF IT'S ALL THE SAME(Jan/04)
SONGS IN C(Jan/04)
BRADLEYBOY(Nov/04)
DERBY MELVIN(Nov/05)
POST NO BILLS(Apr/06)
RELEASES w/ Transistor 66
"BOTTLE COLLECTION (R.R Jan/05,T 66 2007)
"ONITOBA" (Aug/07)
"HOME" (Nov/07)
"WOVEN" (Feb/08)
"THE FARM"(Nov/08)
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