The Bluff City Backsliders, a Memphis based band, have taken over the local music scene and modernized an old sound; a sound that once permeated the streets of Memphis in the golden days of blues and jazz.

This CD will jolt you back to a time when music was pure, improvisational and corporately uninfluenced.

Led by front-man Mark Lemhouse, whose mentor was the legendary Robert Belfour, the Backsliders produce a completely raw and untamed sound that's a fusion of musical genres.

The Backsliders are an eight-piece band whose instruments range from Zither to Guitar to Mandolin to Banjo to Kazoo to Piano and many more. The Backsliders are on fire when performing Charlie Patton's "Pony Blues", which will have you up on your feet shakin' a leg in no time.

This type of music is meant for the streets, the live atmosphere and audience where everyone, including the performers, feed off of each other's energy and enthusiasm. This type of sound is tough to capture in a studio, but the Backsliders seem to have bottled it up in this album.

The difference in this album to many others is that the music comes alive through your stereo just as it would at a live show. Get ready to be rocked out of your seat by some mind-blowing energy from a band that truly understands the roots of music.