MAZZ MUSIKAS HATS OFF: ALL HITS, NO MISSES !!!  
Harry Bodine / Which Way Home / Self-released 
August 2007/ Belgium

Harry Bodine was founder and a member of the band Delta Roux.  Of this group two
excellent CDs were released filled to the brim with Southern roots music.
Thanks to our friends of Swapping Blues, who organized a European tour for them
twice, we had the good fortune to see them play, a.o. at the Crossroads Café in
Antwerp. 

Harry Bodine from Austin proved not only to be an excellent musician and singer,
but also a very likeable man. On his first self-released CD under his own name 
he just carries on doing what he already did before and that is making excellent
Southern American roots music.  This CD has not stolen the label Southern. On 
Which Way Home various kinds of roots music are served.

Drivin Up Thru Memphis is the ultimate highway song and can be easily put in the
row of classic Memphis songs among which Memphis In The Meantime, Walking In 
Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee... Think John Hiatt with Sonny Landreth on slide. 

Which Way Home and Twenty-Four Hours are very swampy. From there it is a small
step to the Mississippi delta with Time On My Hands. Enough Hard Times is 
drenched in Southern gospel. A little further on we run into Louisiana and New 
Orleans. Shufflin Shoes hosts a Southern slide and can just as well be put on 
the repertoire of The Subdudes or Little Feat. 

The funky Cant Live Without It and the voodoo feel of Troubled Mind owe a lot to
Dr. John and The Neville Brothers. The national steel works wonders. The 
Southern boogie, including greasy slide parts  on Hip Street make one think of 
John Hiatt with the North Mississippi Allstars.  Closer Peace Tree Blues is 
nothing more or less than a beautiful bluesy instrumental on dobro. 

Why this magnificent CD is self-released and is not released with one of the 
better labels in the genre is a mystery to me.

Taxim, Ruf, Dixie Frog, Corazong, > Blind Pig... > is there really nobody that 
wants to distribute this little gem? (BV) 

Omaha City Weekly

‘Tasty. Pure. Delicious.’ 
Less is more for Harry Bodine on ‘Which Way Home’ 
Harry Bodine, “Which Way Home” (HarryBodine.com)

Austin-based swamp and steel player Harry Bodine 
released his first solo effort in late 2006. 
Formerly a member of the Austin band Delta Roux, 
Bodine appears to have been able to set himself 
apart of the wide girth of talent that resides 
in that Texas hill country town. Known as a 
songwriter’s songwriter, Bodine has written 
some fine tunes for this album. While the 
playing and vocals are quite good perhaps 
the strongest suit for this album is its arrangement. 
Songs are full with strong instrumentation, and yet 
enough space is lent to the song to allow a dusty 
kind of texture to rise up.

On the opening title track Bodine snaps the 
album open with a “Wake Up Little Susie” 
kind of guitar lick that is quickly supported 
with organ and layered vocal back-up. 
Starting the album like this alerts the listener that Bodine
 is going back to the roots and searching 
for his musical home. 
Tasty guitar fills interlaced with a brief organ solo 
by Nick Connolly is particularly exceptional. 
Bodine uses his national steel to refrain the breaks 
and bring the song and chorus back, 
building up energy along the way.

Whereas, say, a John Hammond, may elect to play sans band, 
Bodine frequently employs a wide range of instrumentation 
behind his music and it seems to serve the songs well. 
On “Time On My Hands,” Bodine begins the track with 
just vocal and steel guitar. He then gently opens it up to drums,
 bass, keys and vocals. The song builds slowly as the 
percussion accents every twist and turn of the melody. 
Bodine breaks the song open for a gentle guitar duet 
that features a slide sound set behind acoustic picking.

Sounding haunting like Neil Young’s “Needle and the Damage Done,” 
Bodine’s 
“What Would I Do” is a laid back ballad which 
meticulously weaves in and out of the singer’s query,
 “What would I do without you?” With bluesy piano breaks 
that flow into early period Elton John fills 
(you remember when Elton was great don’t you?), 
Bodine casts a wonderful, albeit hardly blues,
 ballad that is at once familiar and comfortable.

What Bodine seems to understand so many others miss; 
that often less is more. While Bodine fills the audio 
spectrum with plenty of interesting bits and pieces, 
gone are the wailing guitars and over-bearing vocals. 
Tasty. Pure. Delicious. Harry Bodine’s album, “Which Way Home,” 
available at CDBaby.com, could be an exciting find for those that 
love a really good song presented by high-class players 
with a bent toward underplaying and subtle nuisances. 
This is far from a blues album but relies heavily on the 
sounds and themes that blues fans will quickly recognize 
and appreciate.
– Rick Galusha

I had a great tour in Europe with The Shiner Twins. They are a great band!
www.shinertwins.com

I am in the pre-production stage for a new CD that I hope to release in August 2008.

I will also be heading back to Europe next Spring, if not sooner.

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Singer and slide guitarist Harry Bodine`s interest in music spiked after he dropped out of high school in his central 
New York State hometown; he started out playing bass, and he fell in love with slide guitar after hearing Duane Allman. 

Now based in Austin, Bodine spent five years as the principal songwriter and guitarist for Austins Delta Roux, which he founded in 1999. 

KGSR KPFT KIWR KDHX KGNU KVNF and KOOP have all played songs from Which Way Home. 

Which Way Home was produced by Bodine at Arlyn Studios and Wire Studios in Austin, and mixed by Stuart Sullivan 
(Nick Lowe Stevie Ray Vaughan Jimmie Vaughan Willie Nelson). 

Bodine is an original who first draws on the best of his myriad of musical influences and then stamps his own individual 
style on the songs, There is not a weak track on this superb album and the conversationalist narrative style and moody 
slide guitar grab your attention. —Blues Matters