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Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice is “truly excellent”
Blues Magazine features Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice in a new review by critic Iain Patience: “Fiona Boyes is that rare thing, a female blues guitarist/singer/songwriter and an Australian. ‘Box and Dice’ is her first release under the US Bay-area Reference Recordings label where she’s in good company alongside the likes of Doug MacLeod, Lloyd Jones and others. And, like most Reference recordings, the studio quality is high with a splendid warm, empathic sound and…
Fiona Boyes on Blues Radio International
Fiona Boyes joins Blues Radio International for a live performance of “Louisiana” from Box & Dice: Fiona Boyes — Box & Dice Get it Today! Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify
The Age Music Victoria Nominates Box & Dice for Best Blues Album!
The Age Music Victoria Awards have announced their nominees for the best albums across 11 genres and Fiona Boyes’ Box & Dice is a Best Blues Album nominee! The Age Music Victoria Awards celebrate Victoria’s best music of the year! An Awards committee from The Age and Music Victoria select a panel of 30+ industry judges from radio, music blogs, print media, record stores, festivals and more to submit a long list of up to…
Making A Scene Interviews Fiona Boyes
Making A Scene has an exclusive new interview with Box & Dice artist Fiona Boyes: Get Box & Dice Today: Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify
Fiona Boyes on the Rdio!
Rdio’s “New Music Weekly” Station is featuring Fiona Boyes and her new Box & Dice recording! Click the image below to listen for free (after registration/login)!
Five Stars for Fiona Boyes Box & Dice
Five Stars on Amazon for Fiona Boyes and her new Box & Dice recording: “Fiona Boyes is an amazing guitar player and singer from Australia, with a husky voice, a talent for songwriting, and a love of unusual instruments.On this album she plays the “Box and Dice” cigar box guitar shown on the cover and a 4-string cigar box guitar, as well as a rare National Reso-lectric baritone guitar and her usual touring guitar a…
New FRESH! Blues — Box & Dice
Now Available — Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice FRESH! From Reference Recordings Order from RR!Order on Amazon.comListen on Apple MusicListen on Spotify Read Reviews and More Distinctive New Album from Australian Fiona Boyes! The cigar box with the green dice knobs (hence the title “Box & Dice”) as well as the four-string guitar are one-of-a-kind instruments made for Fiona. The baritone National Reso-lectric is quite rare. The 6-string blond guitar is custom-made for Fiona by…
What’s That Cigar Box Guitar Made Of? Fiona Boyes Tells All
Fiona Boyes talks with ABC Radio about her unusual instruments and the music on Box & Dice: Pre-Order on Amazon today!
Making A Scene Says To “Seek Out” Fiona Boyes
The new Fiona Boyes release, Box & Dice, gets a rave review from Making A Scene‘s Richard Ludmerer: “Coming from Australia didn’t hold Fiona Boyes back. Perhaps the distance served to filter out the mediocre; so that she only listened to and learned from the very best. … Boyes was nominated for a Blues Music Award every year between 2007 and 2010. … Boyes raspy voice is highly expressive. If you haven’t heard her lately,…
A blues musician walked into a bar in Yackandandah…
The Star Hotel has been plying its trade since 1863, but the funky cigar box guitar hanging on the wall was only a few days old and proudly inscribed ‘No 1’ in Sharpie on the back. In an uncharacteristic move, I took if off the wall and played it at my gig that night. While it proved to be a bit of a mongrel, there was something strangely compelling about this little junk yard dog…
Box & Dice is a “guitar fest”
“I just received the newest release, Box & Dice, from Fiona Boyes and it’s a gritty, bluesy guitar fest. Opening with Juke Joint on Moses Lane, Boyes gets a thick, rudimentary sound from a resonator guitar with superior sliding technique. Her voice is raspy and well suited to this polished form of primitive blues. I’m A Stranger Here has a pure delta sound played only on a 6 string cigar box and she handles it…
Fiona Boyes a Melbourne Blues Society Artist of the Year!
The Melbourne Blues Appreciation Society has named Box & Dice artist Fiona Boyes the 2015 Artist of the Year! Here is her reaction: While I was on the road last weekend, the news came through that I’d just won the MBAS Victorian & Tasmanian Blues Music Awards ‘Artist of the Year’. Home again, at last, and admiring the beautiful trophy, I’m reflecting on the importance of heroes and mentors in the Blues life. It means…
Box & Dice is Universal Blues
“They say music is the universal language. Few things will bear that out like this CD from Reference Recordings, the latest in their Fresh series, “Box & Dice” from Fiona Boyes. I hear you. What’s so universal about a female Blues guitarist? Well, how about the fact that Ms. Boyes comes from a place about as far removed from the birthplace of the Blues – the rural South – as it’s possible to get. She’s…
BlogCritics Review Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice
Fiona Boyes new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Box & Dice gets five stars from BlogCritics.org! “Fiona Boyes is an amazing blues performer from Australia with a great husky voice and a love for unusual instruments. This self-produced album features simple but effective arrangements. … These unusual instruments ensure a different and interesting sound, but do not think of this album as a novelty. It’s not that at all. The songs include nine great originals…
Fiona Boyes Box & Dice Preview on YouTube
Preview next month’s Box & Dice release from Fiona Boyes with our new YouTube Playlist featuring live performances of works on the album: Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Fiona Boyes plays deep Blues, influenced by a myriad of traditional regional styles. She has carved an international reputation as a blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and American reviewers have described her as a ‘musical anomaly’ and ‘Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin’! Equally at home on acoustic or…