New blues from Sterling Koch

Sterling Koch the guitar player for Victory In Heaven has a new side project called "61 South" that is blues in a classic rock style reminiscent of Z.Z. Top or George Thorogood.
http://cdbaby.com/cd/61south

Sounds pretty good. Several of the songs, though, have been released on VIH CDs.

I love Sterling Koch's music. His cd Jams is stellar blues. I'd love to pick up this one someday.

61 South is not a side project as Victory In Heaven Band disbanded last year. While some of the songs on the new CD are in fact from previous VIH CDs 3 of them were done acoustically by VIH and are now given the full band, electric treatment on the 61 South CD. Also, thanks for the kind words about the Jams CD.

Welcome steelguitar01 to Christian Hard Music.
we hope you like to talk with us about blues and other music styles.

When I am at home I need to check out this blues album.

Welcome, Sterling!

I'll have to check into the new CD soon. There are just a couple of other things on my radar right now.

The cd came in, and I have listened to it a couple of times. This is a very good cd, fans of George Thorougood will love this. I wish more people made music like this.
The slide guitar is excellent.

Thanks for the kind words regarding the 61 South CD and thanks all for the welcome. I really missed talking blues and other stuff since the message boards closed at christianblues.net. Lots of good people over there. The steel (slide) guitar is used by necessity. I'm glad so many people are responding so positively to it. Talk again soon. Thanks all!

I hope I can step into those toes too soon as I started my new band now. Hope we can record some tunes very soon.

You will find several blues fans here, Sterling. I used to post a little over at ChristianBlues.com as well.

VIH was one of the better blues projects out there that I had heard. I am also a fan of Glenn Kaisers solo stuff, the rock side of Raging Grace, and the Mighty Jeremiahs. So, it's cool that you're keeping the blues style alive.

Steve Riddle Band is one of my faves.

I forgot totally about Steve Riddle.

Yes, the Mighty Jeremiahs CD was a nice surprise. I've been a big Jimmy Hall fan from way back. I would recommend finding the new Jack Pearson CD (onetime Almman Brother and appeared on Jimmy's solo CD) at CDBaby for some killer slide.

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Hope we can record some tunes very soon.

Keep us posted Mark about your new band.

"61 sounds very cool.
It's cool there are new blues CDs released.

Sterling sent me a copy. I can say that it is done incredibly well, and his slide guitar is very reminiscent of artists like George Thoroughgood, Jeff Healey, and early ZZ Top. Good work, Sterling.

So you advice for the fans of blues is to buy this album?

Yes, that would be my advice but I am biased as I did play on the album.

Let me see steelguitar 01 how I can order this CD.
I am very interested.

If you look at the very first post, there is a link that you can order the cd from.