Chicken Diamond Brings The Blues To “Shadow City” On New Album

French one man band Chicken Diamond fuses Mississippi blues with The Stooges using digital drums and vintage guitars. Even if his style is ultimately close to the blues roots, his appearances have always inspired fear and loathing to the Eric Clapton fan base! Of course, it’s not a simple impersonation of the masters such as RL Burnside or T Model Ford, as Chicken Diamond brings his own world full of noise and fury to his new album, Shadow City, that is out today.

Chicken Diamond’s sixth full length, Shadow City, includes covers of the Proud Mary and Running Shoes standards that perfectly illustrate the album. This might seem like a direct reference to the masters of blues, but it’s delivered with Chicken Diamond’s signature in your face blast of Detroit proto punk fuelled heavy blues.