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(England) - 2008 (english) Blues Bytes (USA) - 2006 (english) Blues Magazine (France) - 2006 (english) Blues Magazine (France) - 2006 (francois) MazzMusikaS (Belgium) - 2006 (english) Back To The Roots (Belgium) - 2006 (english) Blues News (Germany) - 2006 (deutsch) Blues News (New Zealand) - 2006 (english) Fridhammer (Sweden) - 2006 (svenska) Radio Ung (Norway) - 2006 (norsk) Midtjyllands Avis (Denmark) - 2006 (dansk) Bobtjes Blues Pages (Belgium) - 2006 (english) Rootstime (Belgium) - 2006 (english) Blues Box (Germany) - 2006 (deutsch) Blueslink (Denmark) - 2006 (dansk) < Back to top Live reviews from Bierbeek Blues Festival in Belgium. Even at this early hour the place was packed and the audience was drinking his words and guitar playing - speechless. Tim Lothar Petersen proves that he's able to captivate an audience at a festival as well as in a cosy blues club. Blues On Stage - Bierbeek Blues Festival, April 2007 As an acoustic act, he knows how to make an impression on his audience. The man has a great voice and the guitar have no secrets for him anymore. He's a very interesting and charismatic musician. Keys & Chords - Bierbeek Blues Festival, April 2007 Isn't it wonderful how a Danish guy after a psychic loop across the sea finds himself with both feet in the Mississippi Delta mud. Tim Lothar clearly is a man of emotions and hopefully he'll keep on digging for songs in precisely that ground. Back To The Roots - Bierbeek Blues Festival, April 2007 < Back to top < Back to top Blues Bytes (USA) - August 2006 (english) Tim Lothar Petersen has been a busy man lately. Over the past couple of years, the drummer for the Danish band Lightnin’ Moe, has been locked away in his spare time learning to play guitar. One listen to his debut release, Cut To The Bone, and you will realize that he’s learned his lessons well…very well indeed. Petersen cut this disc, a collection of Delta blues, at his home, and wrote seven of the ten tracks, playing acoustic guitar and singing unaccompanied. The cover tunes are Charley Patton’s “High Sheriff Blues,” Leadbelly’s “Bound To Go,” and Willie Brown’s “M & O Blues,” and Petersen does a very good job on each of them. Wisely, he doesn’t try to imitate them vocally, opting instead to sing them his own voice. The original compositions range from the gentle “Don’t Hesitate,” to “Katrina,” a haunting look at the devastating storm that may be the highlight of the disc, and “Amalina,” a pretty instrumental dedicated to Petersen’s daughter. Throughout, Petersen displays a surprisingly deft touch on guitar (surprising, given the fact that he’s only recently started playing), and his vocals are mannered, but confident. There’s no question that this style of music is very dear to Petersen’s heart. It’s obvious with every note he plays and sings. Cut To The Bone is a very pleasant surprise and fans of acoustic blues will definitely enjoy it. --- Graham Clarke < Back to top < Back to top Blues Magazine (France) - July 2006 (english) Note : cd-selection of the month, July 2006 For his first solo album, Tim Lothar Petersen has left his band Lightnin' Moe and the electric Blues, and invites you into his world of acoustic Blues music, touching it´s origins and the Delta. The CD is not just a surprise but a real shock, and for sure one of the best acoustic Blues albums of the last twelve months. A CD to get without any hesitation. A guitar player with Blues in his blood, Tim offers you ten songs (of which eight are signed by Tim himself) and gives you the imagination that you're somewhere in the Delta, sitting nearby one of the bluesmen who lived as a slave in the cotton fields. The guitar and Tim's voice sounds so close to you, that you feel that he is sitting just next to you, as in the night, after a hard working day : emotional moments are guaranteed while listening to these songs. The opening track, Easy Baby, signatures this album, full of emotion, followed by a great High Sheriff Blues (by Charley Patton), then followed by a beautiful Don't Hesitate, that touches your soul, where Blues music becomes blue coloured. And this is what makes this album so great. A CD that you will place next to the ones of the greatest bluesmen, in the midst of the greatest, this is for sure. --- Frankie Bluesy Pfeiffer < Back to top < Back to top Blues Magazine (France) - July 2006 (francois) Pour ce premier album solo, Tim Lothar Petersen a délaissé Lightnin' Moe et l'électricité, pour plonger dans un blues acoustique qui vous ramène aux racines, en plein Delta. L'album n'est pas une surprise, mais une gifle, et incontestablement l'un des tous meilleurs albums acoustique de ces douze derniers mois, à ne rater sous aucun prétexte. Guitariste doué d'un sens inné du Blues, Tim vous offre dix titres (dont huit signés par Tim lui-même) qui vous font croire que vous y êtes, dans le Delta, et avec l'un de ces bluesmen dont la vie a été un parcours d'obstacles quasi insurmontables. L'émotion est là, palpable, et la prise de son vous fait frissonner tant la voix et la guitare de Tim jouent pour vous, là, dans la nuit. Le premier titre, Easy Baby, vous plonge immédiatement dans le bain, suivi par un somptueux High Sheriff Blues emprunté avec respect à Charley Patton, avant un Don't Hesitate de toute beauté et que vous seriez presque sûr d'avoir déjà entendu, maintes et maintes fois, tant ce blues là vous prend à l'âme. Et c'est là que se situe la force de ce bel album : vous toucher là où vous ressentez le Blues, à l'âme. La photo du CD est comme l'atmosphère de l'album, sépia, avec ce goût du Delta qui devient plus beau encore, chaque année passée. Un CD à classer dans votre rayon blues acoustique, à côté des grands, des très grands, et pas seulement à cause de la pochette. --- Frankie Bluesy Pfeiffer < Back to top < Back to top MazzMusikaS (Belgium) - 2006 (english) Denmark is not the first country that springs to mind as far as the blues is concerned. Nevertheless there are sufficient artists there who are dedicated to the blues, just as in our country. The genuine blues feeling does not know borders. When I listened to the cd of Lothar Petersen (37 minutes) for the first time, and I always do that without informing myself in advance, I was in for a pleasant surprise. A man with his guitar and his (slide) dobro, singing and playing in the splendid tradition of the Mississippi delta blues. Great examples: Charley Patton (his High Sheriff Blues is one of the three covers on this album), Leadbelly (Bound To Go is cover no. 2, with added stanzas), Willie Brown (cover no. 3: M&O blues), Son House, Skip James and of course Robert Johnson. This record was recorded with a computer, two mics and a simple mixer, in his living room. The simplicity works wonders, the sound is very good. His seven originals are treated in the same bald, quiet way. The lyrics are very basic, as in the opener Easy Baby: 'Easy baby, it will be alright. I wanna hold you close to me tonight. You fool around, baby just take your time. Somehow, baby, I'll make you mine'. Apparently Tim himself likes to “fool around”, according to the lyrics of Baby Blue: ‘Oh, baby blue, you know I'll be true. Ain't fooling around, baby, ain't cheating you. Sometimes I'm gone, gone all night long, you just have to trust me, I won't do no wrong'. Very moving. The lyrics of his song about the meanwhile more than notorious Katrina also have such a genuine down to earth approach. Tim Lothar is in fact a drummer (in the Danish blues band Lightnin’ Moe), but what he produces on the guitar is very good indeed. The closing track, Amalina, is a beautiful instrumental on the slide dobro and accentuates his skill. Surprising CD. --- Fred Schmale < Back to top < Back to top Back To The Roots (Belgium) - 2006 (english) We already know Tim Lothar Petersen as the drummer of the Danish bluesband Lightnin' Moe (BTTR 51). We didn't knew Tim also knows how to play the dobroguitar. To prove this he locked himself at home to create 'Cut To The Bone', with only two mics and his computer. Seven songs are written by himself. The other three are 'High Sheriff Blues' by Charley Patton, 'Bound To Go' by Leadbelly and 'M & O Blues' by Willie Brown. It looks as if Tim has tried to relocate the delta to Danmark for a short period of time. "Did he succed?" is probably the next question you will ask. To be honest, it's not easy to go back and walk the footsteps of the old masters with just your voice, an acoustic guitar and some footstompin'. It's even harder when you try to do this with your own compositions. And although Petersen's voice sometimes sounds a little bit to well-behaved, he works his way around this project. His playing is acceptable, especially when you think he used to drum. But the thing that stands out the most is the fact that this disc is honest. No fake emotions, no, Tim brings his songs the way he feels he has to. And that is something that makes us favourable! 'Cut To The Bone' definitely is worth the listening! < Back to top < Back to top Blues News (Germany) - 2006 (deutsch) Der Schlagzeuger des jungen aufstrebenden Dänen-Vierers Lightnin’ Moe & His Peace Disturbers mit einem eigenen Album? Und das solo und akustisch, als Sänger und Gitarrist, kann das gutgehen? Es kann. Tim Petersen hat dieses ruhige Album als Low-Budget-Produktion bei sich zu Hause mit zwei Mikrofonen und einem kleinen Mixer über den Computer aufgenommen. Das Ergebnis ist beachtenswert. Von der Musik der Delta-Bluesveteranen inspiriert, hat Petersen sieben Songs geschrieben und covert gekonnt drei Songs von Charlie Patton, Huddie Ledbetter und Willie Brown. Erstaunlich, wie einfühlsam und auch engagiert Petersen mit seinem Slide- und Dobrospiel überzeugt, und noch erstaunlicher, wie gut seine gesangliche Qualität mithält. Das passt zusammen und man kauft dem jungen Dänen die akustische Verneigung vor seinen Heroen ab. Sicherlich ist er nicht der filigranste Picker auf Erden, aber die CD geht unter die Haut und vermittelt Petersens Talent, Songs zu schreiben. „Easy Baby“, „Backdoor Business“ oder „Don’t Hesitate“ haben solche Songwriter-Qualitäten, dass sie längerfristig ins Ohr gehen. Die CD klingt gut und tut gut. Eine Bitte an den Künstler: mehr Songs schreiben, damit das Hörvergnügen nicht schon nach 37 Minuten endet. Kompliment. --- rs < Back to top < Back to top Blues News (New Zealand) - 2006 (english) < Back to top < Back to top Blues News (New Zealand) - 2008 (english) < Back to top < Back to top Musikbiblioteket (Danmark) - 2008 (dansk) < Back to top < Back to top Interview, Musikbiblioteket (Danmark) - Februar 2008 (dansk) < Back to top < Back to top Interview, Musikbiblioteket (Danmark) - Juni 2008 (dansk) Peter Widmer, Odense musikbibliotek < Back to top < Back to top Interview, Blues-Finland (Finland) - March 2008 (english) < Back to top < Back to top Fridhammer (Sweden) - 2006 (svenska) Tim Lothar Petersen är vi göteborgare bortskämda med att se och höra som trummis i danska bluesbandet Lightnin' Moe & His Peace Disturbers: ett i alla avseenden elektriskt band med ett närmast Fabulous Thunderbirdsliknande driv. Men Tim har en helt annan sida också, illustrerad på hans debutCD "Cut To The Bone". En blandning av originalmaterial och sånger av mästarna Charlie Patton, Willie Brown och Leadbelly. Lågbudget i produktion men inte i musikaliskt avseende. Favorit: Tims egna "Katrina", en ödesmättad blues med suggestivt 'drone' om katastrofen i New Orleans. Men också ljuvt vackra instrumentalen "Amalina" - som ett soundtrack till en pastoral idyll. Bravo! < Back to top < Back to top Radio Ung (Norway) - 2006 (norsk) < Back to top < Back to top Midtjyllands Avis (Denmark) - 2006 (dansk) < Back to top < Back to top Bobtje's Blues Pages (Belgium) - 2006 (english) When I heard this cd, the same sensation hit me as when I heard the music of Robert Johnson and his contemporaries. Their style was highly original. It was where it all came from; it was the base of it all. Just like this cd: simple, but oh so sincere. Recorded at home with two microphones and a simple mixer. His name is Tim Lothar Petersen, Danish by birth. Although Denmark is not exactly a huge blues country, you might have heard of 'Lightnin Moe'. Tim Lothar was the drummer of this successful band which also was known outside of Denmark. The call of the Delta however was too strong and he swapped his sticks for the slide and the "snaer" for the dobro. He plays songs of Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson and Leadbelly but he also has some originals in that beautiful, old country blues style. The choice and implementation of the ten songs prove that the man has a lot of respect for the music of that time. "High Sheriff Blues" by Charlie Patton has a sublime slide and for a second you imagine to be thrown back in time when the blues troubadours performed in filthy juke joints. The other tracks bathe in the same atmosphere. "Bound To Go" by Leadbelly (Huddie Leadbetter) and "M&O blues" by Willie Brown sound very solidly. If you want to experience the early blues, then buy this cd, close your eyes and watch images of "cotton fields" and "front porches" go by. Enjoy! --- Arie 'Elmo' Rombout < Back to top < Back to top Blues Box (Germany) - 2006 (deutsch) Kommt so sicher nicht alle Tage vor, aber wer in einer Retro-Bluesband am Drumset sitzt kann manchmal auch Gitarre spielen und singen, und das mehr als ordentlich! Tim Lothar Petersen, bekannt als Taktgeber der renommierten dänischen Formation "Lightnin' Moe" widmet sich auf seiner Debüt-CD stilistisch dem Misissippi-Delta-Blues zu. Mit einer alten Steelstring, Dobro, Slideröllchen und seiner rauchig-authentisch klingenden Stimme führt er die Zuhörer zurück in die Juke Joints und anderen Vergnügungsstätten der 20er und 30er-Jahre des vorigen Jahrhunderts. Die zehn Nummern stammen (bis auf drei Fremdversionen von Charly Patton, Huddy Leadbetter und Willie Dixon) aus eigener Werkstatt - aufgenommen wurde zu Hause im eigenen Studio mit eher spartanischer Ausstattung aber gutem Sound. "Cut to the Bone" ist ein absolut gelungens Solo- Debüt des Dänen, schade lediglich, dass man bereits nach 10 Titeln und 45 Minuten Spielzeit schon die Repeat-Taste des Players drücken darf < Back to top < Back to top Blueslink (Denmark) - 2006 (dansk) - en debut, der i den grad lægger sig til rette i det bedre, akustiske blues-selskab! "Cut To The Bone" er titlen på Tim Lothar Petersens debut-cd, der er på gaden nu. Og Tim skærer virkelig ”ind til benet” med 10 akustiske bluesnumre - syv egne kompositioner og tre klassikere. Der er tale om en sjælden indlevelse, når han - med sin akustiske guitar, et sliderør og sin melankolske stemme - serverer sine stemningsfulde numre. Stilen er delta-blues, de tidlige år, men også meget mere… For Tim bidrager til den akustiske blues med sin helt egen stil - tak for det! Cut To The Bone må absolut være en nødvendighed, hvis man holder af akustisk blues. < Back to top < Back to top Rootstime (Belgium) - 2006 (english) It was Ivan Jacobs of Hookrock Diepenbeek which gave us the good news that Lightnin' Moe would be on the bill of this year edition of that small but nice festival, to be held on July 1st (see Extra Support). It will be a nice reunion with the boys from Denmark who delivered a well received and tasty performance at the Belgium Rhytm & Blues Festival in 2004. Awaiting their new album, drummer Tim Lothar Petersen declared that his upcoming solo album would be something quite different. And indeed, his debut album "Cut To The Bone" offers a fine portion of acoustic delta blues, recorded at home using two microphones, a small mixer and a computer. On this very low budget album there are seven originals and three covers ("High Sheriff Blues" by Charley Patton, "Bound To Go" by H. Ledbetter en "M & O Blues" by Willie Brown). The result is amazing because Petersen only uses a guitar, a dobro and his voice, regularly adding some echo to the latter, which brings him right in line with the country, blues and hillbilly tradition of Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Ry Cooder and Skip James. So, it's "back to the roots" and Petersen delivers 37 minutes of very fine blues and in one go puts an end to the cliché jokes concerning drummers. We do hope then that "drummer" Lothar Petersen will perform some of his acoustic arts live at "Hookrock". --- SWA < Back to top < Back to top Blues Matters! (England) - 2008 (english) < Back to top < Back to top Live review, Cafe Beau the L'air (Belgium) - 2006 (english) For the whole evening we stayed in a higher region, in this smoky club with the purest tones of the blues. My god... I did not know that Denmark was a part of Mississippi. Tim Lothar Petersen is white on the outside, but on the inside he's black as a coalmine. Thank you Mr. Petersen... for this wonderful, beautiful evening. < Back to top