Reckless And Blue – Seven Deadly Gins
Reckless And Blue – Seven Deadly Gins
Format: CD – Digital
Label: Independent
Release: 2025
Release date: December 21, 2025
Blues music has long thirsted after the pleasures and pains of love at the heart of its emotional essence. Sometimes, though, love and the blues create a thirst for more – like the heady musical cocktail of ‘Seven Deadly Gins,’ the sparkling new album served up by the Colorado band Reckless and Blue
The group’s searing blues style has made them winners of the Colorado Blues Society’s 2026 Blues Challenge, headed for January’s International Blues Challenge.
The seasoned veterans of Reckless and Blue were pulled together by George Williams in 2017, when he returned to the Denver area after three decades of travel, and sharpening his talents as a classical guitar student, band member, singer, and songwriter. ‘Seven Deadly Gins is a follow up to the band’s debut album, Can’t Give Me The Blues, released in 2021.
The Reckless quintet regulars include Williams on guitar and vocals, Allen Anderson on keyboards, Tom Dillard on bass, Steve Gaskin on drums, and sultry vocalist Shaunda Fry, notable as a latecomer to the group two years ago, who didn’t begin her singing career until she turned 50. The ten songs here were written or co-written by Williams, who shares the vocals with Fry, often trading verses in the same song, adding a passionate he-said, she-said lovers’ interaction.
Website: https://recklessandblue.net/
Tracks:
01. ComeBack
02. Seven Deadly Gins
03. Triflin’ Blues
04. Don’t Expect Me
05. Burnin’ Daylight
06. Can’t Give Me The Blues
07. Shimmy Shakin’ Blues
08. If The Blues Was Whiskey
09. Hey Pretty Baby
10. Stormy Night In Denver