They never really went away, as far as I can tell, but decided to come back anyway. In addition to their many musical accomplishments - mostly hard-hitting tunes about drunkards, damnation and love gone bad - singer and guitarist Steve Fai is director of Carleton's school of architecture, and drummer Steffany Bennett runs an Alzheimer's research lab at Ottawa U. I don't know what bassist Geoff "Big Daddy" Taylor does in his spare time, but he does have an apropos nickname.
They have a new album out, Eternal Return, and it's a fine one.
These photos were taken at Babylon June 21, 2003 - a month or so before they headed into Hassan's Rumpus Room to record the songs on the album (yes, it's been a while in the works).
Here's Fai and Bennett.
Here's Bennett and Taylor.
And lastly a group shot ... wait a minute ... one ... two .. three. Darn it, there's four people in this here trio! Yes, it's South of 78/Pirate man Bryan "Catfish" Curry, honorary Black Boot, doing some of that lead and rhythm guitar playing he does so well.
Naturally, there are more pictures of all these folks at the Birdman Sound website. I'm republishing this post because (a) I grabbed it off the blog and forgot to repost it after some minor editing chores and (b) The Black Boot Trio finally have a semisolid date for their CD release party. It's at The Rainbow, and goes down April 15.
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