Blueheart Revival

Hailing from Washington DC, Blueheart Revival combines blues, rock, soul, and jam sounds in to a highly-potent blend of music in the American tradition. With Bobby Thompson (lead vocals, guitars) and Colin Thompson (guitars) soaring in the guitar realms, Kurt Kratch (bass) and Gary Crockett (drums) lay as solid a foundation as a rhythm section can, while Tommy Lepson comes in with growling B3 organ sounds, and powerful harmony vocals. The groups puts on high-energy, soulful shows that are sure to win over fans wherever they perform.
Blueheart Revival is born out of the emotional desperation of the blues, the joyous love of soul music, the rebellious nature of rock and roll, and the sweet sounds of Americana. The intense drumming of Gary Crockett gives the music an indestructable backbone and groove, fused nicely with Kurt Kratch's solid and creative bass lines. Vocally, Bobby, Tommy, and Gary, found a home in harmony that took only a night of bonding by a microphone before laying the music down to tape. B3 organs and electric slide and fuzz guitars make for a dynamic sonic frenzy that is both controlled and abandoned, living within both a traditional and progressive blues frame.. With the recent addition of Colin Thompson on guitar, the band has hit a new height.






I take responsibility for initiating this project, and I'm happy to have done so. I'm also honored to be working with Tommy, who is a musical hero of mine, and a good friend. His persona, to me, had been a bit of a mystery, as we had only crossed paths a few times years back, and I knew well of him, but I wasn't sure if he knew about me at all. Now that's all in the past and we've been having a good time together.

He played on a few songs for the By The Hand album sessions, and later we worked on a holiday single together. Both sessions we're easy and sounded great and I kept the idea in my mind of figuring out a way to continue working together. Tommy invited me and the boys to record some of his songs and the fall of 2012, and we got two songs tracked. I approached Gary and Kurt about trying out some new songs I had written, and we worked those up in rehearsals, eventually taking those into Tommy's studio.

"Love Has A Way" was the first of those songs I wrote about a friend that had passed away suddenly. I got a call after a holiday gig in 2011 about an old blues buddy and I felt a bit of a shock. I didn't write the song right away but the words and idea came to me almost right away.

"Highest Mountain" is a bit of a sarcastic blues shuffle. You want to tell someone how great they are but you don't want to sound cliche so you sound cliche anyways. Musically I wanted to rearrange a blues shuffle away from one-four-five to imagine alternative changes.

"Leave It Up To You" was influenced from hours and hours of listening to The Faces and The Rolling Stones, and attempting to write a number in that vein. Lyrically, it faces the topic of a government or society that say it can take care of you, so you will you leave it up to them.

"Don't Bury Me Yet" is the closest thing I'll write to down-home blues, but with a serious rock fuzz edge. It's dirty, nothing pretty about it. How I feel I would sound if I had an electric guitar and had the pain of the blues in the Delta.

listening to a lot of John Lee Hooker, The New Barbarians and Rolling Stones...