Scissormen are devils or demi-gods, depending who you ask. To some crusty blues fans, they’re rock ‘n’ rollers muddyin’ up the music’s waters.But to people who understand that the blues is still a vital style that can be everybit as hip and creative as what’s on the stages of Warped or Coachella, they’resaviors. And those are the folks the band’s been playing in front of for the past twoyears. Touring behind their debut CD Jinx Breakers (Hi-N-Dry Recordings) — which wasproduced by Morphine’s Billy Conway — they’ve seared a path with their incendiarylive performances from festivals to premiere nightclubs to blues rooms to juke jointsto coffeehouses to punk rock shows from Maine to Mississippi and out to the WestCoast. Ted Drozdowski, the Boston-based band’s slide guitarist and leader, understands that Robert Johnson, Jimmy Page and Johnny Ramone share the same spiritual connection. So he turns his guitar into an Ouija board and channels all three in blazing, over-the-top performances which typically find him leaping up on tables and running out in the street, playing slide with everything from martini glasses to old worn-out boots. "I came up in punk and psychedelic rock bands, but playing the blues the way we play it means everything to me," says Ted. "This is music with teeth and guts and heart,and it rocks like hell when it’s done right. And we do it right! I caught the feverfrom musicians like R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill, whotaught me to put every bit of my heart and soul into this music. So that’s what I do."We work hard to give people who hear us live a show they’ll never forget. And wework hard to keep this music kicking and moving forward, just like Jessie, Junior andR.L. did, and a handful of the best musicians from the Mississippi hills still do. Wehonor the past, but we’re all living in the present. And so is our blues." Recently Scissormen have been finishing up their full-length debut. Meanwhile, JinxBreakers is available from their web site www.scissormen.com, where you’ll also findfree MP3s and learn more about the band, or via www.hi-n-dry.com. Publicity: K.L. Productions, 615-297-4452 or klpzgr klpzgr@earthlink.net or www.scissormen.com