DOWNES, REBECCA - Believe (Sealed) (CD)

Voted Best Emerging Artist and Best Female Vocalist in the British Blues Awards 2016, Birmingham-based Rebecca and her band release BeLive, the much-anticipated live album that fans have been demanding over the last 18 months. It features a typical set from the band's performances in the second half of 2015 and throughout 2016 recorded at various locations. It is testimony to Rebecca and her band that not only do they replicate the musicianship, quality and passion of original tracks, written by Rebecca and lead guitarist Steve Birkett, from their two studio albums and one EP they actually develop them much further. This is not just an album of original songs played live; each track is deeper, broader and stronger. Add in three classic covers delivered with characteristic power and you have a 13-track album that fizzes with energy and which gives a taste for what the band is about.