Kaliopi & The Blues Messengers – One Woman One Love (2026)
Celebrated as one of “…the most electrifying artists in today’s blues scene…bringing authenticity and fire to every performance…”, Kaliopi Stavropoulos catches audiences in cinematic Delta blues, moving melodies and original, enchanting storytelling. The frontwoman of Kaliopi & The Blues Messengers, the Australia-based soul and blues ensemble, reflects vintage blues tones while embracing the realities of contemporary blues musicians.
I know, I said blues a lot in the past paragraph, but that’s what Kaliopi & The Blues Messengers are all about: the blues. Delivering a sound that is of yesteryear and the present day, the group offers melodies that are “…equal parts moan, confession, sermon and fire… music that insists blues is not just grief, but a form of survival, resistance, joy and reclamation… where survival becomes a song.” Today, we take a look and listen to their most recent release, ‘One Woman One Love’.
Recorded at Melbourne’s Woodstock Studios by Richard Stolz, with mixing and mastering by Sean O’Sullivan, and production by Double Trouble Blues Sessions, ‘One Woman One Love’ is a song that would fit perfectly alongside the likes of Gary Moore and B.B. King. Following the well-received 2025 single, ‘How The Caged Bird Sings’, ‘One Woman One Love’ celebrates the complexities of love in a confessional blues-inspired meditation on devotion and salvation. Kaliopi & The Blues Messengers explains:
“…the song wrestles with love as freedom versus love as captivity, devotion as both promise and demand. By the time the question lingers – what if the thing that can save me is also the thing that asks the most of me? – the listener is left answered, and ultimately redeemed…”
Lyrically, ‘One Woman One Love’ is profound and poignant, with a reflective pondering on existential complexities and individual understanding; what about the melody? A perfect vintage blues expression of tension and peace, the track winds Greg Rowan’s crisp drums about Paul Leeder’s bass, while Brendon Price’s piano and John Drew’s warm Hammond keep things rhythmically running along. Of course, Kaliopi’s soaring guitar scorches the track, imprinting hard-hitting blues on the track, but it is Wayne Albury’s eloquent sax that adds soulful intimacy to ‘One Woman One Love’.
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