Code One presents..
Dom Turner & The Rural Blues Project
‘Demolition Blues’ Single release
Brass Monkey (Cronulla, NSW)
Saturday, 22 November 2025 6:30 pm
Dom Turner (of Backsliders) returns to the Brass Monkey for a night of raw, heavy groove-based upbeat electric blues and to release the new single, ‘Demolition Blues’.
Voted Traditional Blues Artist of the Year’ 2022, 2024 and 2025 by the Sydney Blues Society, Dom Turner is guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of the legendary Australian blues group, Backsliders, as well as other international collaborations with Phil Wiggins, RL Boyce, Sunpie Barnes and as The Turner Brown Band.
Dom has toured the Australian and international festival circuit since the 1980s, and has been invited onstage with various legends, most recently in Sydney by Derek Trucks (The Tedeschi Trucks Band) at the State Theatre and The Allman Betts Family Band at Metro Theatre.
With The Rural Blues Project Dom presents a mix of upbeat raw electric rural blues songs—originals, as well as versions of songs by artists such as Son House, Lead Belly, Fred McDowell and RL Burnside, all played in a wild and heavy groove-based style.
Quotes:
“Perhaps Australia’s truest of ‘true blue bluesmen’” Bluesfest 2022
“Turner is a phenomenal guitarist – slide and otherwise – and brilliant songwriter with trademark vocals” Rhythms Magazine
“The man is a phenomenal blues player.” BWW Reviews
Voted Traditional Blues Artist of the Year’ 2022, 2024 and 2025 by the Sydney Blues Society, Dom Turner is guitarist, vocalist, and founding member of the legendary Australian blues group, Backsliders, as well as other international collaborations with Phil Wiggins, RL Boyce, Sunpie Barnes and as The Turner Brown Band.
Dom has toured the Australian and international festival circuit since the 1980s, and has been invited onstage with various legends, most recently in Sydney by Derek Trucks (The Tedeschi Trucks Band) at the State Theatre and The Allman Betts Family Band at Metro Theatre.
With The Rural Blues Project Dom presents a mix of upbeat raw electric rural blues songs—originals, as well as versions of songs by artists such as Son House, Lead Belly, Fred McDowell and RL Burnside, all played in a wild and heavy groove-based style.
Quotes:
“Perhaps Australia’s truest of ‘true blue bluesmen’” Bluesfest 2022
“Turner is a phenomenal guitarist – slide and otherwise – and brilliant songwriter with trademark vocals” Rhythms Magazine
“The man is a phenomenal blues player.” BWW Reviews