atmosphere is great blues club frontier - the very heart of the Route 66 un'Emilia who dreams and longs for the infinite loneliness of the American prairies - the air breathed by hundreds of spectators that attended Friday night at Naima Forli to attend the concert of Nine Below Zero.
Determined to make up the numbers not exactly impressive, with a contagious enthusiasm and exuberant supporters, patrons found themselves in front of a band determined to honor its tradition of group symbol of the British blues scene .
pulled by a locomotive human as Dennis Greaves, ringleader of the NBZ known to handle his guitar with commendable versatility - now caressing her with complicity as was his mistress, now eagerly pulling it like a bouncer with a client side - the band has shown great determination and personality doing justice to the prestigious "venue" that hosted them.
merit also the drummer Brendan O'Neill and bassist Gerry McAvoy, excellent to create an impressive rhythm section on which the harmonica of Mark Feltham (co-founder of the group with Greaves and finally back on stage after the 'absence for health reasons) was able to throw with skill and character.
an hour and three quarters of a concert, here are the NBZ Squaderno the strengths of their repertoire electric blues: from "Three Times Enough" to "I'm a lonely man", from "Do not Point Your Finger At The Guitar Man "to" Hit The Spot "to name just a few.
Best of 30-year career condensed into nothing short of a live "volcano" (worthy response to the Icelandic volcano, the real one, who had tried unsuccessfully to block the band at London) that carries within himself all the characteristic features of the sound of Nine Below Zero: the softness and the seductive appeal of rhythm and blues array el British 'punk restlessness always ready to leak from the manner and attitude of its members.
What is left at the end of a concert so it is a great sense of satisfaction but also of physical tiredness that affects not only musicians but also the public, back from a real cathartic shower of conflicting emotions and perceptions.
There is to be regretted, therefore, not see them for the second consecutive year at the festival Castel San Pietro In Blues : internationally renowned festival of that last year, hailed the band's Greaves and Feltham and that this 'year - it must be said - still offers, June 4 to 6 lots of goodies for fans of the genre (from the southern Hill Country Blues Review of the country-blues of Sue Foley and Peter Karp Band.
Rated 7.5
Matthew Guizzardi 
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