Vinyl Vault: Duke Robillard & The Pleasure Kings, "Too Hot To Handle"

The Blues are on tap for the next Vinyl Vault when we feature a 1985 album from Duke Robillard and the Pleasure Kings entitled “Too Hot to Handle.” The album was released on Rounder Records and featured a simple guitar trio of Robillard on guitar and vocals, Thomas Enright on bass and backing vocals, and Tom DeQuattro on drums. The spare instrumentation allowed Robillard to stretch out on numerous guitar explorations of many aspects of the Blues.

Duke Robillard has recorded over 35 albums under his own name and this is the second of those. He’s also appeared on nearly 60 more. He was a co-founder of Roomful of Blues, along with Al Copley, a band that is still rocking houses to this day. He was also a member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds for a time. He’s recorded with John Hammond, Bob Dylan, Curtis Salgado, Savoy Brown, Ruth Brown, Kid Ramos, Jimmy Thackery, and many more. Robillard is equally at home with jazz and old-time roots music, having performed with jazz players such as Scott Hamilton, Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon, Snooky Pryor, and more.

“Too Hot to Handle” is a straight-ahead Blues album; however, we’ll hear several tracks from it this Tuesday, August 13, at 8:30 p.m. on the Vinyl Vault with Geoff Anderson, only on KUVO JAZZ.