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The Blackwater Fever are an Australian blues guitar-drums band, formed in Brisbane, Queensland in 2005. They were awarded Best Blues & Roots Act at the 2006 Sunshine Coast Music Festival. They issued their debut five-track extended play, Abused Blues, in January 2006 by the founding duo of Shane Hicks on vocals and guitar; and Rick DeMarco on drums. The tracks had been recorded live-in-the-studio at OPM Studios, Brisbane. Hicks and DeMarco co-wrote "Blackwater", which provided the band's name, Hicks later recalled "[we were] brain storming for a band name we were having a hell of a time trying to come up with something. One of the first guitar/drums songs we wrote together was called ‘Blackwater’ and it’s about people catching a fever from drinking tainted water. Put all that together and you have our band name! We found out later that it was a term for severe malaria…. And because we were going for a dark swampy bluesy sound, we thought…. Perfect!"
Top Tracks
- 1
The Blackwater Fever - Better Off Dead
The Tunnel (Music from the Motion Picture)
- 2
End Of Time
The Depths
- 3
Don't Fuck With Joe
The Depths
- 4
Alive and Die
Delusions
- 5
Slave
In Stereo B-Sides
- 6
Set My Mind
Delusions
- 7
Chains
Delusions
- 8
Baby Please Don't Leave Me
In Stereo B-Sides
- 9
Now She's Gone
The Depths
- 10
Ode To Ol' John Doe
Temptator!
