New Role Soul is an album by Robert Ward, released in 2000. The album is a blues CD. -
Veteran blues singer/guitarist has the vocal urgency & immediacy of singers like Otis Redding & Wilson Pickett; Ward pioneered the use of the Magnatone amplifier which was featured on many of his 1960s recordings as Robert Ward & the Untouchables - here he presents 10 new originals done in his trademark sound.
Robert Ward uses the Magnatone Stereo Vibrato amplifier on tracks 3, 4, 5, 7, 11. On all other tracks a Fender Vibrolux amplifier is used.
Recorded August 28-30, 1999 at Riverside Studios.