Rod has a solid, powerful voice which can adapt across blues and soul styles and works well on “Sanctified Blues”, a Sterling Magee composition which has a sparse style wrapped round a faster section for Adam’s solo. The album opens with the impressive title track, an uptempo number which calls for unity across the political divide and has been used by Common Ground Committee, a social justice, non-profit organization whose motto “Let’s de-polarise and unite America” is certainly well represented in this song co-written by Rod and Adam. Rod handles all vocals and plays piano on one track, Adam is on harp and percussion, Alan on guitar bass is added to two tracks by Jerry Jemmott and Bryan W Ward who also engineered the sessions in Mississippi in early 2020. The three musicians offer us a broad palette of music with four songs from the Satan & Adam repertoire, two new originals and five covers from James Brown, Ray Charles, Rosco Gordon, Little Willie John and Howling Wolf. Adam and Roderick (who performs as ‘Sir Rod’) discussed a collaboration which started out as a possible tribute to Sterling but became a larger project, now realized as Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors. One person who saw the film was Roderick Patterson, a singer, dancer and motivational speaker who happens to be Sterling Magee’s nephew. Adam has worked for many years on a film documentary about Satan and Adam which eventually saw the light of day in 2018. Since 2012 Adam has released two albums on which he played harp and percussion with guitarist Alan Gross as The Blues Doctors. Since then Adam has been based in Mississippi, establishing a fine reputation as a writer, teacher and performer. They joined forces as Satan & Adam, made a brief cameo appearance on U2’s Rattle And Hum in 1988, and enjoyed a run of three albums together before Sterling retired to Florida.
Satan (real name Sterling Magee) was a one-man band street performer in NYC who met harmonica player Adam Gussow in Harlem in 1986. Most blues fans will be familiar with the story of Satan & Adam which has recently featured in a Netflix documentary. Sir Rod & The Blues Doctors – Come Together
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