Pay Me No Mind

This is a great blues album with first rate talent. I am totally impressed with any family that can pull off an album of this caliber and it's refreshing to see this talent emerge without the backing of the corporate music mills or focus group contests like American Idol. My hat's off to the entire Perry family. I've had this CD in my car for the last couple of weeks and still can't bring myself to hit the eject button.

Clinton, TN

I'm not normally a fan of the blues but this album caught my attention after an interview on NPR. This band is GREAT! It's very hard to believe that the lead singer is a 16 year-old playing a homemade guitar and that the drummer is his 9 year-old sister. The songs are catchy, the lyrics intriguing, and the vocals superb. I recommend this album for anyone interested in good music.

Three young talented musicians. Have you seen their muffler guitars? They made them from car parts! Really great blues.

This is such an amazing group! To be so young and sound the way they do, they will go far and absolutely have fun doing it! If you like blues, this is definitely the CD for you!

PAY ME NO MIND
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band
Northern Blues Music



Combine youth, talent and enthusiasm with top-notch songs and you have the recipe for success. In the blues music genre that result is embodied in the new CD Pay Me No Mind by The Homemade Jamz' Blues Band. These three young Perry siblings from Tupelo, Mississippi, present their fresh, original sound on their fantastic debut album from Northern Blues Music.

These youngsters have been wowing blues fans all over the country for the past several years. They broke onto the blues scene with an impressive first appearance at the famed Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and followed up with bookings at festivals, a blues cruise, and a segment on the CBS Sunday Morning Show. The band won second place in the band category at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis in 2007 to then sign with Northern Blues Music. They are the youngest blues band in history to sign with a major recording label.

Ryan, fifteen, handles guitar and vocals, with Kyle, thirteen, on bass and sister Taya, nine, on drums. But don't let their age fool you. The group has the polish and professionalism that usually only comes after years of experience. Ryan's wailing guitar work on songs like "Time for a Change" has the flavor of some of the best known artists in the field.

Pay Me No Mind includes eleven tracks:

1. Who Your Real Friends Are
2. Voodoo Woman
3. The World's Been Good to You
4. Right Thang Wrong Woman
5. Penny Waiting on Change
6. Blues Concerto
7. Time for Change
8. Pay Me No Mind
9. Jealous
10. Shake Rag
11. Boom Boom

Other than John Lee Hooker's Shake Rag, their father, Renaud, who joins in with his harmonica on four of the tracks, writes all the songs. Producer Miles Wilkerson adds rhythm guitar to four of the numbers.

Ranging from upbeat songs like "Jealous" and "Blues Concerto" to traditional down home country blues like "Penny Waiting on Change" The Homemade Jamz' Blues Band have cooked up some sweet Mississippi hill country sounds. Pay Me No Mind is solid blues' gold.