Mannish Boys - Wrapped Up & ReadyWRAPPED UP AND READY is the Mannish Boys' seventh recording and follows on the heels of their most wildly successful album DOUBLE DYNAMITE which took top honors in the 2013 Blues Music Awards for Traditional Blues Album of the Year. This time out the band serves up a whopping eleven originals and only five covers culled from the songbooks of Roy Brown, Ike Turner, Robert Ward, Magic Sam and Smokey Wilson. Special guests abound with appearances by Kim

a key for which Rachmaninoff was so well known that he was even called "Mr

All have been on either headline or support tours across the world in their various projects

and the New Century Chamber Orchestra

sifting tricks and styles to fashion fresh anthems of hypnagogic jack

A single entitled "Ohio" was also released

wrote both the intertexts and the biblical and historical explanations and - with the kind assistance of Eitan Levi

'From The Bughouse' and even a Lee Perry cover

a long process driven by extremely diverse musical impulses

Digipak reissue of 1976 compilation includes the stereo & mono versions of all original album tracks

Beverley Knight stars as Faye Treadwell

and "I Had a Talk with My Man"

The new album is expected in 2023