Guitarist-singer Knucklebone Oscar’s new solo album Uncle Knuckle is out today, Friday 5 April. The album is available in stores on vinyl, CD and digital streaming services. The album, which is unashamedly upbeat in tone and mood, features the artist’s influences from across the years, with songs that bow to the likes of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jimmy Castor Bunch, Dr John, Little Richard and even Marvin Gaye, remixed cover versions of Knucklebone Oscar’s original compositions. Notable guests from Tuure Kilpeläinen to Marjo Leinos spice up the old, the new, the borrowed and the blue.
KNUCKLEBONE OSCAR – UNCLE KNUCKLE
LP/CD/Digi
Catalog Number: TWIN281
Release Date 05.04.2024
℗ & © Stupido Records 2024
Download pictures and info here
Listen on:
Spotify
Apple Music
You Tube Music
The Uncle Knuckle album starts with the Troglodyte trilogy, which is a bone-chilling album from the start: not many Finnish artists could credibly send out this kind of sound mischief and mischief. After the trilogy, Knucklebone Oscar hands the torch to keyboardist-singer Tuomo Prättälä, who is known from the duo Tuomo & Markus, among others, and interprets the I’ve Got To Use My Imagination cover made famous by Gladys Knight and the Pips as if it were his own, with Knucklebone Oscar’s guitar solos taking part in the soulful dialogue. Other guests on the album’s tracks include Marjo Leinonen of Balls fame, Finnish roots music icon Eero Raittinen, Molly Moonstone of visual and burlesque fame, singer Ina Forsman and singer-songwriter Tuure Kilpeläinen with her beautifulrendition of Luther Ingram’s soul classic (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right.
According to Knucklebone Oscar, the new album is a kind of theme album and a collection of different sounds, styles and songs that he has been a fan of and has composed himself throughout his 30-year career. The fist has been infused with intense aromas and moods from different parts of the world, musicians and musical styles.
– It’s liberating, exciting and even scary to push this album out. It’s been so long since the last Knucklebone album that I don’t really know what people expect, or even what I think. Other than, “Thank God it’s here and done!”, Knucklebone Oscar breathes a sigh of relief.
– This is something of a summary of Knucklebone Oscar’s past, present and perhaps future. A modern blues manifesto that doesn’t exactly sound like the blues! My “friends and family” album: a 50-year-old rocker’s mid-term review of everything that’s been done, Knucklebone Oscar continues to open the album’s red wire wrapping.
– The celebrity gig was celebrated in a loud houlama-hulabalooza in advance a week ago (On The Rocks in central Helsinki on 31 March) and the band that will be playing the gigs, King Kong, is in high spirits and the whole thing is in sharper gear than perhaps ever before. While the live show is not the same as the album, and especially for this album, there are echoes of each other and resonance on both sides.
Knucklebone Oscar will tour with the new Uncle Knuckle album and the King Kong band from spring onwards at release shows around Finland. The Uncle Knuckle album is released and the shows are sold by Stupido Records.
Knucklebone Oscar & King Kong on the album release tour as follows:
Pe 3.5. Kannusali, Espoo
Pe 24.5. Kulttuuritalo Monio, Tuusula
Pe 31.5. Utopia, Turku
La 8.6. Juttutupa, Helsinki
La 15.6. Rock’n’roll, Blues and Jazz 2024, Haukivuori
Pe 21.6. Cafe Bar Pesula, Fiskars
La 13.7. Parfest, Parainen
La 24.8. Konepaja Biergarten, Helsinki
La 21.9. Bar & Bistro Route 431, Mikkeli
Knucklebone Oscar -gigs: jallu@stupido.fi
www.facebook.com/knuckleboneoscar
https://www.youtube.com/kingknucklebone
IG: @knuckleboneoscar
KNUCKLEBONE OSCAR – UNCLE KNUCKLE