“Ripping up the Midwest band scene for over a decade…. Jef Shroedl’s stiletto guitar licks slice around Jef Taylor’s strong, gravelling voice” – Living Blues For 15 years, Altered Five Blues Band has been winning audiences with a swaggering stomp of bruising, barrel house grit. According to Downbeat magazine, frontman Jef Taylor “sings powerfully” and “ Jef Schroedl’s livewire guitar reaches the high bar of mixed invention and f uidity ”Blues Bytes magazine declares the group features “the funkiest rhythm section outside of Memphis.”

For its fourth album, Charmed & Dangerous, the Milwaukee based quintet joins forces with Blind Pig Records, one of the world’s premiere blues labels. Produced by multi-Grammy winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Johnny Winter,etc.), and featuring guests on harmonica and backing vocals, the 13 tracks of original, contemporary blues deliver a f ery mix of deft songwriting and simmering musicianship

Taylor’s smoldering baritone howls in the opening title track, and breaths f re-and brimstone on cuts like “On My Listto Quit” and “Three Alarm Desire”. The soul drenched “Eighth Wonder” and scrapyard shuf e “Mint Condition” showcase A5’s songcraft, while “Cookin” in Your Kitchen” and “If Your Heart Went Public” prove you can still rattle the rafters with pure, stone-cold slow blues. The album’s third track,“Three Forks,”was penned about legendary Delta bluesman Robert Johnson and features music, adapted with permission, from the classic cut “Crossroads.