Phil Collen lead guitarist of British rock band Def Leppard & alternative roots rock band
Manraze started Delta Deep as an extreme blues project. The band has been likened to Aretha
Franklin & Chaka Khan performing with Led Zeppelin”. Phil’s love and appreciation for the blues
since childhood enabled him to move forward quickly with the band’s inception in 2012. Blues
was created out of something completely different from what we hear today. I grew up listening
to rock music but then I found out it was all based on blues. Jimmy Page Hendrix all of those
guys-they got it from blues. Today’s musicians miss out on what blues is completely about.
There’s a type of ‘blues style’ but not actual blues music. I just don’t hear true blues
anymore unless I go back and listen to really old music.” With that reasoning Phil decided to
change the tide of what he was hearing. The critical authority Elmore Magazine said of the
band If you’re into good old spiritual emotional and thought provoking rock n roll look no
further than Delta Deep.” Screamer Magazine accurately described Delta Deep’s music as
Sweltering hot sorrow-drenched deep southern blues.” Axis Magazine declared [i]f the goal of
(DELTA DEEP) is to create music that revives an appreciation for blues music. Mission
accomplished.” The band also features Debbi Blackwell-Cook (vocalist songwriter) Stone Temple
Pilot’s Robert DeLeo (bassist) Forrest Robinson (drummer) and Helen L. Collen (songwriter).
The band released their self-titled debut in 2015. The DVD portion of this live CD DVD was
filmed at Daryl’s House (ie. Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates fame) in April 2016. Together with the
release of the brand new CD DVD Frontiers Music Srl reissues the debut album from the band
which was originally released in 2015 in the USA and UK only. The record includes 11 excellent
Blues and Rock numbers and sees cameo appearances from none other than Whitesnake’s David
Coverdale Collen’s bandmate Joe Elliott and Collen’s ManRaze bandmates Paul Cook (Sex Pistols)
and & Simon Laffy.
