Session mit Johnny Fallstaf, Juke West, Rene Kovacs, Martin Bäumler, Philip Rösch
Johnny Falstaff stammt aus Texas/USA und hat eine wunderbare Stimme, eine Mischung zwischen Chris Isaak & Dwight Yoakam. Er ist ein großartiger Musiker , Gitarrenspieler, Songwriter & Showman.
Geboren ist Johnny in Alice, in der Nähe von Corpus Christi/Texas.
Er entdeckte schon recht früh seine Leidenschaft zur Musik, nicht ganz unschuldig ist wohl sein Dad,der selbst Gitarrist & Sänger in einer Rock ´n´ Roll Band war. Und später auch ab & an mal gemeinsam auf der Bühne standen. Seine Einflüsse, beschreibt er selbst:
„Ray Price, Warner Mack, Buck Owens, Jack Greene, George Jones, Skeeter Davis, Conway, Jim Carrol, Al Dean and the Allstars, Charlie Rich, Jack Daniels, Gary Stewart,Jack in the Box tacos... and shitty B grade horror flicks...“
Ein Mann, über den es sogar einen Song gibt
"TALL WALKIN´TEXAS TRASH" ,
geschrieben von Greg Wood & aufgenommen von Jesse Dayton.
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I started a quest to find terrific blues music and incredible musicianship when I was just a little kid. I also have a tremendous appreciation of fine musical instruments and equipment. One of my greatest joys all of my life was sharing my finds with my friends. I'm now publishing my journey. I hope that you come along!
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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Monday, November 4, 2013
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Wolf Hoffmann
Wolf Hoffmann (born December 10, 1959 in Mainz, Germany) grew up in Wuppertal. He is primarily known as guitarist in the German heavy metal band Accept since 1976. In 1997, he released the album Classical with rock versions of classical pieces. He contributed to Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach's solo album Bring 'Em Bach Alive! and to a 2000 Japanese tribute to Randy Rhoads album called Randy Rhoads Tribute with Sebastian Bach on "I Don't Know" and with Joe Lynn Turner on "Diary of a Madman". Hoffmann also contributed to Peace Breaker by Skew Siskin.
He has loved photography as a hobby early on, and eventually made it his second career. He took the cover photo for Objection Overruled. During Accept's hiatus from 1997, Hoffmann has worked as a professional photographer (website listed below). He is currently based in Nashville, TN, but also maintains a residence in Berlin, Germany.
Wolf Hoffmann is married to Gaby Hoffmann (née Hauke), who used to be Accept's manager. Gaby Hauke contributed to Accept's songwriting under the pseudonym Deaffy.
Accept reformed with Hoffmann on board in 2009. Their comeback album, Blood of the Nations, was released August 20, 2010 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. A follow-up album, Stalingrad, surfaced two years later, which also was highly praised.
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Wolf Hoffmann
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Mike Seeber Trio
Mike Seeber trio wins German Blues Challenge
As the winners were announced, they could hardly believe it: the Mike Seeber trio (Dresden / Aschersleben) is the winner of the German Blues challenge 2013 and will represent Germany at two major international Blues competitions.
Great backdrop the German Blues awards in 10 categories were carried in the Eutin brewery on Saturday, September 21, awarded and at the same time the German Blues Challenge. Seeber
Nominated for five bands, via a public online voting, played 30 minutes before an international panel of experts, to determine the winner of the German Blues challenge. The winner qualifies for the European elimination (European Blues challenge) in Riga (Latvia) and for the global finals (International Blues challenge in Memphis United States), each in the coming spring. Also, an appearance at the Eutin Festival of Blues beckons 2014.
The competition bands to the German Blues challenge 2013 (Cologne Blues Club, Jimmy Reiter band, Lausitzblues, MikeSeeber trio, Richie Arndt & RAWcoustic) rousing performances, with varied blues at a high international level offered to the public. At the end, that was Mike Seeber trio (Mike Seeber - guitar, vocals / Philipp Rösch-Bass-/ Tobias Ridder drum) to the general enthusiasm of the audience the famous nose front. The band from Dresden/Aschersleben (Saxony) impressed with equally powerful as soulful blues rock, very "honestly" and authentic scoured with audience and jury.
In addition there were concerts Blues project, and the final concert with subsequent session, with George Schroeter & mark Banham, as well as the German of the only 14 year old guitarist Kalle Reuter and Bernd Römer (Carat) to the delight of the crowd vigorously mixed with.
At the end, 02,00 in the morning, the organizing Baltic Blues e.V. could pull a content summary about a successful event: "full hut, happy winners and an enthusiastic going with audience - there remain open... nothing to be desired".
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Mike Seeber Trio
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Bernd Römer
Nach seinem Abitur absolvierte Bernd Römer von 1989 bis 1995 ein Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Passau, Toulouse und Köln. Er schloss sein Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen ab und war von 1997 bis 2000 Referendar in Köln, Israel und Brüssel.
Nachdem er sein Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen gemacht hatte, wurde er 2000 als Rechtsanwalt zugelassen. Hauptsächlich arbeitet er aber beim Fernsehen Sat.1. In der Sendung Richterin Barbara Salesch spielte er von Herbst 2000 bis Frühjahr 2012 die Rolle des Staatsanwaltes. Ab und zu trat er auch als Leitender Oberstaatsanwalt bei Niedrig und Kuhnt auf.
In Familien-Fälle, dem Nachfolgerformat der Sendung Richterin Barbara Salesch tritt er seit Frühjahr 2012 weiterhin auf, jedoch diesmal als Zivilrechtsanwalt.
Laut eigenen Angaben in der Sendung Das perfekte Promi-Dinner im Sender VOX vom 8. Februar 2009 besitzt Römer Kanzleien im Ruhrgebiet und in Köln.
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Blues & Boogie Woogie - Georg Schroeter and Marc Breitfelder
The participation of German blues musicians in the world's largest blues competition on American ground itself is extremely unusual – but Georg Schroeter (piano, vocals) and Marc Breitfelder (harp) winning the 27th International Blues Challenge 2011 in Memphis, TN, USA, cannot be overestimated. Fact is that the two musicians from Kiel (Northern Germany) are the first European musicians in the IBC's 27 years' history to run away with this prestigious award from the USA, the home of the blues – that's just unbelievable! By doing so those two guys will go down in Europe's music history.
The duo took its first try to win the IBC in January 2010. By gaining the German and Baltic Blues Challenges 2009 in Eutin, Germany, they met the requirements to get nominated for the IBC 2010 by the Baltic Blues Society Eutin. Last year blues lovers in Memphis already paid attention as they came in second place at the IBC's semi finals. By winning the German Blues Award 2010 – also sponsored by the Baltic Blues Society Eutin, Germany – they were entitled to participate in this year's IBC again.
Well experienced and self-assured from last year's competition Georg Schroeter and Marc Breitfelder went straight through two quarter finals and the semi final in the clubs on Memphis' legendary Beale Street to the final competition at the
time-honored Orpheum Theatre. In front of an audience of nearly 2000 the two Northerners (the German term translated word by word would be “Northern lights”) showed their excellent skills and delivered a brilliant set during their 20 minutes' performance. Carried and pushed by the overwhelmed and often spontaneously applauding audience Georg and Marc brought their show to a thundering climax which swept the audience off their feet.
So it really did not come as a surprise that jury and audience unisonously agreed, when Jay Sieleman, Executive Director of the Blues Foundation, USA, at the end of the solo/duo competition spoke those crucial words: “The winner is … Baltic Blues Society, Georg Schroeter and Marc Breitfelder, representing Germany!”
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Mike Seeber Trio
Mike Seeber wurde 1976 in Nordhausen, Thüringen, geboren. Bereits im Alter von vier Jahren versuchte er sich auf einer Ukulele. Im elterlichen Haushalt hörte er die Musik von Rory Gallagher
und Jürgen Kerth, etwas später auch die von Jimi Hendrix und Johnny Winter, von den RODGAU MONOTONES und LIVING BLUES. Es war die Musik, die Mikes Vater, damals selbst Gitarrist in einer Band, hörte und verehrte. Sein Vater nahm Mike auch immer öfter mit in den Probenraum und zu Auftritten der Band in der näheren Umgebung. Zu seinem achten Geburtstag bekam Mike seine erste richtige Gitarre geschenkt: eine für ihn noch viel zu große Konzertgitarre. Stundenlang saß er mit dem Instrument vor dem Plattenspieler und versuchte zu den Platten seines Vaters mitzuspielen. Besonders hatte es ihm das Album GLORIOSA von Jürgen Kerth angetan. Doch die kleinen kraftlosen Hände und das große klassische Instrument machten es ihm nicht leicht. Von seinem Vater lernte er die ersten Stücke zu spielen: „Love Like A Man“, „Heart Of Gold“ und das Bonanza-Thema.Etwa mit elf Jahren entdeckte Mike noch andere Scheiben im Plattenschrank, und von da an kamen für ihn nur noch Musiker in Frage, die einen Hut trugen: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter und Billy Gibbons mit ZZ Top. Monatelang hörte er das Album TEXAS FLOOD und verzweifelte, weil er keinen einzigen Ton treffen konnte. Erst Jahre später fand er heraus, dass die Gitarren einen halben Ton tiefer gestimmt waren. Weinachten 1986 bekam Mike dann endlich eine Strat-Kopie in Rot und einen 15-Watt-Verstärker geschenkt – Oma sei Dank.
Bis zu diesem Tag hatte er sich die Les Paul seines Vaters nur ansehen dürfen, nun hatte er selbst eine elektrische Gitarre und versuchte, die Songs und Sounds von MONOKEL und der JONATHAN BLUES BAND, von Hansi Biebl und selbstverständlich von Jürgen Kerth nachzuspielen – abwechselnd mit den von ihm bis heute verehrten Texanern.Seine Eltern schickten ihn auch auf eine Staatliche Musikschule, wo sein Lehrer mit ihm ganz von vorn beginnen wollte. Wechselanschlag mit einer Note – das ging aber nicht mit einem Zehnjährigen, der „Johnny B. Good“ im Style von Johnny Winter drauf hatte.
Nach zwei Jahren spielte Mike die erste Prüfung und bestand sie mit “Ausgezeichnet”. Als sein Lehrer aber merkte, dass er die Menuette nach Gehör und nicht nach Noten spielte, war Schluss mit Unterricht.
Mit fünfzehn Jahren bekam Mike seinen ersten regulären Job bei einer Tanzband. Der damalige Sänger und Gitarrist war ausgestiegen. Es wurde hart geprobt, denn Mike war als Gitarrist nun auch der Sänger. Wenn die Auftritte der Band bei diversen Tanzveranstaltungen gut liefen, wurde zum Schluss immer „Hey Joe“ gespielt – mit Sicherheit der von Mike am häufigsten gespielte Song, seit er Musik macht.
Zurückblickend war die Zeit in dieser Band für ihn weniger durch musikalische Fortbildung bestimmt, als dass sie eher eine gute Schule für das Leben war, in der er die zahllosen Regeln und Facetten eines permanenten Live-on-Tour-Betriebes kennen lernte.
Mit Neunzehn bekam Mike ein Angebot von einer großen Band mit Manager und Sängerin und fuhr an seinem Geburtstag zum Vorspielen. Als die Band merkte, dass er keine Noten lesen kann, durfte er spielen, was ihm gefiel. Es war selbstverständlich „Hey Joe“. Nach der ersten Strophe hatte er den Job.
In dieser Band lernte Mike viel über Musik, über Veranstalter und über die Menschen im Allgemeinen. Er ist den Jungs von damals, die alle vier wie Väter zu ihm waren, bis heute sehr dankbar.
Für alles andere, was Mike in dieser Zeit erlebte, verweist er gern auf das Buch “Fleisch ist mein Gemüse” von Heinz Strunk – mit dem Unterschied, dass er über all die Jahre den festen Glauben an eine Bluesband hatte.
Neben dem Engagement in der Tanz-Band spielte Mike auch in einer Deutschrock- und Metalband. Da sein Style auf die Dauer nicht passte, entwickelte er sein erstes Powertrio, das den stolzen Namen SEEBER trug. Mike spielte jetzt die alte Les Paul seines Vaters und trug Hut – genau wie seine texanischen Idole auf den Platten-Covern. Die Band spielte CREAM und Hendrix. Zu Stevie Ray Vaughan fand er erst später wieder zurück. Sie hatten Erfolg, und schon bald wurde Mike von einem Festivalveranstalter als „Der blonde Jimi Hendrix“ angekündigt – was ihm im Alter von nur 21 Jahren natürlich sehr imponierte.
Nachdem die Band um einen Keyboarder erweitert wurde, kam es zunehmend zu musikalischen Differenzen und schließlich zur Auflösung. Mike wechselte nach Halberstadt und spielte eine Zeitlang in kleinen Besetzungen in Bars und ähnlichen Locations.
In der ihm fremden Stadt war er erstmals in seinem Leben ganz auf sich allein gestellt. Er übte bis zu vier Stunden am Tag Gitarre. Als er dann einen Job als Gitarrenverkäufer angeboten bekam, sagte er sofort zu – denn von da an hatte er den ganzen Tag Gitarren in der Hand.
Im August 2001 gründete er die TEXAS MIKE BAND. Nach einigen Monaten im Proberaum ging das Trio auf die Bühne. Im darauf folgenden Jahr quittierte Mike bei der Tanzband und verließ endgültig das Festzelt-Business.
Die TEXAS MIKE BAND war von 2001 bis 2010 unentwegt auf Tour und bespielte die großen und kleinen Bühnen des Landes.
Zwischenzeitlich ergaben sich für Mike spannende Gast-Engagements und gemeinsame Touren mit national und international bekannten Bluesrock-Größen wie Bugs Henderson, Randy Hansen, Lance Lopez und anderen. Seit einigen Jahren ist Mike auch immer wieder ein gern gesehener und gefeierter Gast bei den Auftritten der Band MONOKEL-KRAFTBLUES.
Anfang 2011 gab Mike die Auflösung der TEXAS MIKE BAND bekannt.
Seitdem ist er regelmäßig in zwei mit äußerst versierten Musikern besetzten Formationen zu erleben:
MIKE SEEBER BAND und MIKE SEEBER TRIO.
Beide Bands pflegen einen jeweils eigenständigen Sound und geben dem Gitarristen und Sänger MIKE SEEBER somit Raum und Möglichkeit, sein Material variantenreich zu interpretieren – in kleinen Club-Gigs mit unmittelbarem Kontakt zum Publikum genauso wie auf großen Open-Air-Veranstaltungen.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Blues Deluxe - GProject Blues Band
Blues is alive and kicking! As proof just mingle with the audience of a G-Project Blues Band show. When the Hallertauer blues musicians are in town you might see parents harmoniously going to the concert with their young ones.
G-Project Blues Band, with founder Tom Zauner, combines with its varied and groovy Blues, simply supply a timeless onstage sound.
After a few years with different musicians, the current formation has come together.
The band is based on the core: Tom Zauner-drums; James Ransom-bass; Max Bretz-guitar and the unique Michael Staudenmeyer-vocals & piano.
Self composed songs varying from Delta Blues to Texas Blues and powerful guitar riffs gaurantee a relaxed and diversified Live-On-Stage blues evening! Interpreting music from musicians like Robert Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Hendrix, Joe Bonamassa, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton and many more the way the musicians feel it, straight from the heart, without trying to change everything and make it better.
This band got together in many recording and jam sessions so we actually can speak of a band not just of single soloists. These guys have also backed solo artists (Albert C. Humphrey, Hotte Miller, etc.); always ready for an adventure!! Gladly they play for solo artists in the studio or on stage. That's how the band proves that blues is not "only music" but a feeling and it shows how endless and bumpy the way is that they have been traveling for so many years now.
cool drummings--cool runnings
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Jump and Jive - Axel Zwingenberger
Axel Zwingenberger (born May 7, 1955, Hamburg, Germany) is a blues and boogie-woogie pianist, and songwriter. He is considered one of the finest boogie-woogie music masters in the world
Zwingenberger was born in Hamburg, Germany, and enjoyed eleven years of conventional piano training. In 1973 he listened to recordings of boogie-woogie pianists Albert Ammons, Meade "Lux" Lewis, and Pete Johnson. He soon joined piano playing partners Hans-Georg Moeller, Vince Weber and Martin Pyrker, and word about the four friends began to spread. In 1974, he played at the First International Blues-and-Boogie Woogie Festival of the West German Radio Station in Cologne which was followed by Hans Maitner's annual festival Stars of Boogie Woogie in Vienna.
By 1975, Zwingenberger received his first recording contract, issuing such solo recordings as Boogie Woogie Breakdown, Power House Boogie, and Boogie Woogie Live, as well as lending his talents to recordings by such artists as Lionel Hampton, Jay McShann, Big Joe Turner, Lloyd Glenn, Joe Newman, Sippie Wallace, Mama Yancey, Champion Jack Dupree, Sammy Price, Ray Bryant, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Vince Weber, and the Mojo Blues Band, among others. In addition to issuing other solo recordings, Zwingenberger continues to tour all over the world. He has also authored several publications about blues/boogie-woogie music and musicians as well as Boogie Woogie: Piano Solo, a book of 12 of his compositions, exactly transcribed.
Being a railfan since early childhood, he is also known for his photographs of steam locomotives, including some taken from within the machinery itself. Zwingenberger established a non-profit foundation within the German Foundation for the Protection of Historical Monuments which donates for the preservation of monuments on rails, including the world's fastest operational steam locomotive, the German DR 18 201.
In spring 2009, coordinated by young pianist Ben Waters from the UK, Zwingenberger renewed his relationship with Charlie Watts, drummer of The Rolling Stones. Together with bassist Dave Green, they played joint concerts billed as The ABC&D of Boogie Woogie. In June 2012 they released their first joint album The ABC&D of Boogie Woogie - live in Paris and presented it in New York by playing concerts at Lincoln Center and The Iridium Jazz Club.
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Germany,
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Highway 51 - Richard Bargel
Richard Bargel ist einer der wenigen innovativen deutschen Bluesmusiker von Rang und wurde bereits zweimal mit dem „Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik“ ausgezeichnet. Seit 1970 unterwegs, zählt er längst zu den Blues-Ikonen. Zudem ist er als Schauspieler, Autor, Sprecher und Komponist von Film-Musik tätig.
Seit Anfang 2010 bis Sommer 2012 arbeitete Richard Bargel mit dem Ex-BAP-Gitarristen Klaus „Major“ Heuser zusammen | www.bargelheuser.de | . Als „Men In Blues“ gaben sie mit ihrer Band quer durch Deutschland über 200 Konzerte vor meist ausverkauften Häusern. Aus dem erfolgreichen und von der Pressekritik hoch gelobten Projekt gingen zwei CD-Produktionen hervor.
Im September 2012 erlitt Bargel einen schweren Hörsturz, der ihn zwang das Projekt „Men In Blues“ aufzugeben. Jetzt kehrt er zur akustischen Gitarrenmusik zurück und tritt als Solo-Künstler oder in Formationen bis hin zum akustischen Quartett auf.
Der anerkannte Maestro der Slide-Gitarre spielte fast alle großen Festivals, tourte quer durch Europa, arbeitete in den USA und mit renommierten Kollegen wie Charlie Musselwhite, Freddy Koella (Willy DeVille/Bob Dylan), Paul Shigihara (WDR-Big Band), Little Willie Littlefield, Big Jay McNeely u.v.a. zusammen. So gab er in 2007 ein viel beachtetes Duo-Konzert mit dem amerikanischen Blues-Großmeister Charlie Musselwhite, das vom Deutschlandfunk live mitgeschnitten und ausgestrahlt wurde.
Seine legendären „Talkin´Blues Shows“ (von 1992 bis 2000), die Bargel wöchentlich in Köln mit Stargästen wie Luther Allison, Johnny Copeland, Phil Upchurch, Götz Alsmann u.v.a.m. veranstaltete, sind auch heute noch im kollektiven Musikgedächtnis der deutschen Bluesszene tief verankert.
Bargel ist ein innovativer Songwriter und Bluespoet par excellence. Er besitzt die Ausdruckkraft und Integrität die großen Bühnenkünstlern zueigen ist. Sein eigenwilliges und authentisches Spiel auf der Slide-Gitarre und seine von der Kritik als anspruchvolle Blues-Chanson geadelten Eigenkompositionen, haben ihm internationale Anerkennung eingebracht. On Stage zelebriert er den Blues mit ungeheurer Intensität, starker Bühnen-Präsenz und magisch-rauher Bass-Stimme. Auf sympathische Weise vermag er dazu mit intelligentem Wortwitz das Publikum zu unterhalten.
Richard Bargel hat die längst verstorbenen alten Meister des Blues noch persönlich kennen und von ihnen lernen dürfen, darunter Big Joe Williams, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee, Sunnyland Slim, Champion Jack Dupree und Blind John Davis. Sie erzählten ihm, dass persönlicher Ausdruck und der eigene, unverwechselbare Stil das wichtigste Gut und der Stolz eines Bluesmusikers sind. Richard Bargel lebt diese Tradition und führt sie in seiner Musik mit modernem Verständnis fort.
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International,
Richard Bargel
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Lucky Trouble - Blue Note Blues Band
Mal cool und laid back, mal frisch und rockig, der Blues hat viele Spielarten und die Blue Note Blues Band aus München beherrscht sie alle.
Die sechs Musiker covern Chicago-Blues im Stil von John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Sonnyboy Williamson, Junior Wells und anderen schwarzen Musikern auf überzeugende Art und Weise. Eigene Kompositionen und guter alter Motown-Soul runden ihre Auftritte ab.
Bei der Blue Note Blues Band ist die Lust am Musizieren deutlich zu spüren. Ohne große Show-Effekte, einfach nur durch professionelles Zusammenspiel der Instrumente, den stimmgewaltigen Frontmann, die persönliche Austrahlung und das Engagement der Musiker fasziniert die Blue Note Blues Band ihre Zuhörer.
Die Blue Note Blues Band aus München, das sind:
Gerd Hart - vocal
Andi Hofmann - drums
Chris Hof - bass
Mario Bollinger - guitar
Werner Burhop - harps
In Memorium to Martin Hiestand - bass, gestorben am 22. Januar 2005
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International
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Fool For Your Stockings - 3 Dayz Whizkey
3 Dayz Whizkey is a Rockband from Regensburg, Germany deeply rooted in bluesmusic. Well-known for their breath-taking live shows they will publish their debut record "the devil and the deep blue sea" on timezone records in 2012. Since recording the record the trio consisting of T.G. Copperfield (guitars, vocals), Big Tony (bass) and Little Chris (drums) added Manuel Riedl (vocals) and Brad, "the snake" (rhythm guitar) to their live band.
The debut album`s powerful production by Big Tony has left great admiration among critics an fans alike and is considered as a insiders' tip among the German blues scene. The extremely catchy songs are reminiscent of ZZ-Top, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin as well and share their great admiration for the old bluesmasters and the British Blues-Invasion of the late 60s.
Already as teenagers Copperfield, Big Tony and Little Chris intensively dealt with the blues and learned through years of live experience and gigs with great bluesmen every single nuance of the music. It has to be mentioned that songwriter Copperfield is a blues fanatic and a blues ambassador but he also has a great favor for rock- and metalbands of the 90s. You can hear this aspect in the powerful studio and live sound of 3 Dayz as well as in the lyrics and songs of the band.
Also outstanding for a bluesrock band are their strongly song-oriented live-concerts. Though occasionally drifting into virtuoso jams they always keep their audience in mind and deliver a sweaty, entertaining and dramatic show on highest level. Every concert has a one-hundred-percent-focus on the audience, every single not is played with passion. Power to the Blues!
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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Too Hot To Handle - The German Blues Project
The German Blues Project Blues in Germany – they tested it all, didn´t they? Meticulous copying – like spies in fear of decoding! – including practiced Louisiana drawls and cotton picker poses on one end of the spectrum, Germanic lyrics and beer-soaked hilarity on the other one. Hey: The German Blues Project guys can dissociate themselves from it all. Unimpressed and easy going, they fill the deep blue canvas their own way:
Stage left, you got Richie Arndt & The Bluenatics. The power trio has been honing its particular Blues brand as an international, flexible and above all boundless music medium – with RORYMANIA, an Irish 12 bar hero has been quoted and enjoyed, and their TRAIN STORIES dared to include Liverpool´s Beatles in their Blues universe just as much as the shuffling Mancunian, Ex-Hollie Graham Nash – any questions? The Blues has always been the sailors´ currency, has eternally spelt migration.
This energetic threesome, combined with the duo of Georg Schroeter und Marc Breitfelder: would this work? On paper, this may look like a dubious "Super group Stew", but sound wise, this quickly proves to be an unbelievable, perfectly geared alliance: The harmonic unity of guitar, bass & drums (Richie, Jens-Ulrich Handreka, Frank Boestfleisch) meets piano master Georg and harp champion Marc as ideal additions – no instruments doubled – created in hot jam sessions rather than on a cold label lizard´s drawing board. Meanwhile, the tandem of Schroeter & Breitfelder had already proved that as a duo, they function as well as they succeed – with a big award gathered in the process: A year ago, the two artists collected the coveted and significant "International Blues Challenge" from the hands of "Blues Foundation" Boss Jay Sielemann in Memphis in the category of ´Best duo´, as the first non-Americans ever! So has the Arndt Trio in fact joined them? Well, as the Bluenatics were sent to the very first "European Blues Challenge" in Berlin as German representatives in 2011, let´s say they met half way – like in their jam sessions: throwing each other solos, laying some grooves and taking over vocal duties "on the fly".
This procedure has been kept going on the album debut THROUGH THE STORM, as you are able to hear immediately. This quintet sounds incredibly in the pocket right from the word go, on top of their trade and in love with their tools: This is not about getting into the mostly self-written songs – you just don´t manage to escape them again – those licks, love laments and cute cultural snippets. It´s as if those 7000 miles on American-Canadian freeways and turnpikes had already been achieved. A course, by the way, which has definitely been scheduled, and has been tried and tested by the Baltic section of the band, those Kiel citizens Georg & Marc. From the tiniest roadside cafés to those famous "Blues Cruises" across the Caribbean, they followed the course of giants like Pinetop Perkins. When it comes to their sense of adventure, the three ´Arndtnatics´ are surely on the same level – hitch-hiking to gigs in Moscow like it was the age of Easy Rider is no mean feat for any combo!
Anyway, you can take for granted that Blues sounds of international impact do exist between the Baltics &Bavaria, without tending to deny any Teutonic roots…
Uli Twelker
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Acoustic Holiday - Svenson - New Release Review
I just received a new release, Acoustic Holiday, from Svenson. This is not a traditional blues recording but an extremely interesting acoustic recording. The release opens with Blues and Tocatta in e-moll. This track has base elements and turnarounds of blues but is really a very classical in nature. It is extremely clean and well executed. Next up is Continental Blues, an acoustic 12 bar instrumental with a traditional droning bass line but with more of a jazz feel and execution. In den Kordilleren is very classically Spanish in styling requiring very crisp execution. Very nice track. Melina has many jazz and folk characteristics. Samba de Gaia featuring Lulo Reinhardt, the grand nephew of the famous Gypsy swing guitarist DJANGO REINHARDT, has much of the flavor of South America as one might expect from the title. This has some particularly flashy guitar work that is really cool to compliment the Latin rhythm. Sixtus is a very strong classical/jazz style track and possibly my favorite on the recording. This was written by drummer Peter Johannesson for his live performances with Herbie
Hancock. Just a solitary acoustic guitar well played with beautiful chords and clean articulation. T for Theia finds Svenson playing rhythm and lead guitar at once much like Charlie Hunter does except both on acoustic guitar as opposed to how Hunter accompanies himself on a guitar set up with both guitar and bass strings. Nice swing blues based jazz track. Another take at T for Theia features Dieter Kropp on harmonica. This adds of course a new dimension as well as changing the complexion of the track. The Ballad of Sam Hawkens played on a Fender Dobro, the other songs being played on a Furch d-22 with Cutaway, a Farida M-26 and a Flamenco Guitar from Atalaya Musical, Spain. The track is an exploration of lead work surrounding chorded melody. The final track on this release is The Short Journey of Isis and Re. This is a more experimental track with an exploratory melody.
This is an interesting recording and one that a number of listeners could really enjoy.
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Farida,
Fender,
Furch,
Germany,
International,
Lulo Reinhardt,
peter Johannesson,
Svenson
Sunday, December 23, 2012
American Folk Blues Festival '83 Complete German TV Show
James "Sparky" Rucker
Larry Johnson
Louisiana Red
Lonnie Pitchford
Louisiana Red & Carey Bell
Lovie Lee & Band
Queen Sylvia Embry & Friends
rec. October 30th, 1983, at the Volksbildungsheim, Frankfurt a. M., and November 11th, 1983 at the Music Hall, Würzburg
The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe beginning in 1962.
German jazz publicist Joachim-Ernst Berendt first had the idea of bringing original African-American blues performers to Europe. Jazz had become very popular, and rock and roll was just gaining a foothold, and both genres drew influences directly back to the blues. Berendt thought that European audiences would flock to concert halls to see them in person.
Promoters Horst Lippmann and Fritz Rau brought this idea to reality. By contacting Willie Dixon, an influential blues composer and bassist from Chicago, they were given access to the blues culture of the southern United States. The first festival was held in 1962, and they continued almost annually until 1972, after an eight-year hiatus reviving the festival in 1980 until its final performance in 1985.
The concerts featured some of the leading blues artists of the 1960s, such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson, some playing in unique combinations such as T-Bone Walker playing guitar for pianist Memphis Slim, Otis Rush with Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson with Muddy Waters. The Festival DVDs include the only known footage of Little Walter, and rare recordings of John Lee Hooker playing harmonica.
Attendees of the first London festivals are believed to include such influential musicians as Mick Jagger, Eric Burdon, Eric Clapton, and Steve Winwood, who were the primary movers in the blues explosion that would lead to the British Invasion.
Sonny Boy Williamson's visit to London with the 1963 festival led to him spending a year in Europe including recording the Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds album, (first released on Star-Club Records in 1965), and recording with The Animals.
Sites where the festival was held included London, Hamburg, Paris, and others.
Blues musicians who performed included: Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Sippie Wallace, T-Bone Walker, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Memphis Slim, Otis Rush, Lonnie Johnson, Eddie Boyd, Big Walter Horton, Junior Wells, Big Joe Williams, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Big Mama Thornton, Bukka White Howlin' Wolf (with a band made up of Sunnyland Slim, Hubert Sumlin, Willie Dixon and drummer Clifton James), Champion Jack Dupree, Son House, Skip James, Sleepy John Estes, Little Brother Montgomery, Victoria Spivey, J. B. Lenoir, Little Walter, Carey Bell, Louisiana Red, Lightnin' Hopkins, Joe Turner, Buddy Guy, Magic Sam, Lee Jackson, Roosevelt Sykes, Doctor Ross, Koko Taylor, Hound Dog Taylor, Archie Edwards, and Helen Humes.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Dogs Life - Tommy Schneller
Er hat sich ein paar Jahre Zeit gelassen mit einer neuen CD. Doch das Warten hat sich gelohnt: Tommy Schneller macht seinem Namen alle Ehre mit der neuen CD „Smiling For A Reason“.
2010 bekam Schneller das Angebot von Henrik Freischladers Label Cable Car Records, ein neues Album aufzunehmen. Lablechef Freischlader persönlich produzierte mit Tommy Schneller das im November 2011 veröffentlichte Alb
um. Im Februar 2012 bekam das Album den Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
Die Musik geht schneller in die Beine als alles, was der Saxophonist und Sänger bislang produziert hat – Funk, Soul und Blues von allerfeinster Qualität.
2012 bringt Schneller diesen Mix mit brandneuer Band auf die Bühnen. Diese „soulfull-perfomance“ darf nicht verpasst werden.
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Tommy Schneller
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Me And The Devil - Rainer Ptacek
Rainer Ptacek (June 7, 1951 – November 12, 1997) was a Tucson, Arizona based guitarist and singer-songwriter. His guitar technique, which incorporated slide, finger-picking, tape loops and electronic manipulation, earned him admiration of some notable musicians such as Robert Plant and Billy Gibbons. A tribute album to Ptacek, The Inner Flame, included contributions by Plant, Jimmy Page, PJ Harvey, Emmylou Harris and others, and was indicative of his reputation as a "musician's musician". He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in early 1996 and died nearly two years later after the illness recurred.
Ptacek was born in East Berlin to a family of Czech and German descent. His family fled East Germany for the United States when he was five years old. They eventually settled in Chicago, where young Ptacek was first exposed to blues music. He moved to Tucson in the early 1970s, where he began his own musical career, most often solo, but sometimes he plugged in and led a trio as Rainer & Das Combo. He co-founded Giant Sandworms with Howe Gelb in the late 1970s. When the band decided to move to New York, he opted to stay in Tucson to make sure that he would not disrupt his then-new family. Although he never became well known in the United States, he became more and more recognized in Europe. Billy Gibbons was so impressed with the singer-guitarist that he arranged to have Kurt Loder review Ptacek's "Mush Mind Blues" cassette in Rolling Stone. Robert Plant, similarly impressed, flew Ptacek to England for the sessions for B-sides to supplement the singles from Fate of Nations.
He was diagnosed with a brain tumor and lymphoma in February 1996. He did not have medical insurance and his bills were mounting. Howe Gelb and Robert Plant organized sessions for a charity album. The resulting record, The Inner Flame: Rainer Ptacek Tribute, featured Ptacek-penned songs performed by Gelb (with Giant Sand), Plant, Jimmy Page, Emmylou Harris, Evan Dando, Victoria Williams, Vic Chesnutt, PJ Harvey, The Drovers, Madeleine Peyroux, Kris McKay, Jonathan Richman and Bill Janovitz. Ptacek is a participant on most of the tracks.
Intense chemotherapy sessions put his tumor into remission and Ptacek resumed his concert activity vigorously, beginning with a guest performance at Greg Brown's show in November 1996. By this time, media attention was more focused on him than ever before. Just when it seemed as though he had beaten his disease, it recurred in October 1997, and he died three weeks later at age 46.
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Rainer Ptacek
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Red House - Jürgen Kerth
Jürgen Kerth (* 19. Juli 1948 in Erfurt) ist ein deutscher Blues-Gitarrist und -sänger.
Kerths Laufbahn begann 1964 mit der Schülerband Spotlights (zusammen mit Heinz-Jürgen Gottschalk), die sich auf Druck der Kulturbehörden in „Rampenlichter“ umbenennen musste und 1966 verboten wurde. Er gründete daraufhin 1967 das Rock & Blues Ensemble Kerth. Nach einer musikalischen Ausbildung in der Musikschule Erfurt gründete er 1971 das Jürgen-Kerth-Quintett bzw. die Gruppe Jürgen Kerth, aus welcher 1973 ein Quartett und nach dem Tod des Bassisten Roland Michi im Jahr 1979 ein Trio wurde. Virtuose Gitarren- und Gesangstechnik prägen seine bluesgefärbte Rockmusik, er spielte aber auch hervorragende jazzorientierte Instrumentals. Er spielte mehrere LPs und Singles ein, eine Auswahl ist auf dem Sampler Best of Blues enthalten. 2002 coverte Clueso sein Lied Nachts Unterwegs. 2006 erschien die CD Blues-Anthologie.
Kerth engagiert sich als ehrenamtlicher Botschafter der Stiftung Kinderhospiz Mitteldeutschland Nordhausen e. V. in Tambach-Dietharz.
1999 erhielt Kerth den Kulturpreis der Stadt Erfurt.
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Phil Riza & Marko Muddy
I'm 40 years old and my first contact with a harmonica was with an age of 5 years.
My grandfather shows me how to play on a chromatic harp and I learned day by day...
Then there comes my first contact with music from Little Marion Walter Jacobs and Muddy Waters... And wow... The harmonica player was so unbelievable good... So There I knew what I wanted. I bought my first diatonic harp and had to learn playing cross... My lips burned like fire because of playing every day with a marine band.... They were so sharp and cut my lips.... But the sound is the best I can say because I tried several harps... Know I only play the Marine Band Deluxe.... And Blues.....
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Marko Muddy,
Phil Riza
Friday, October 19, 2012
Cissy Strut - Blue Heat
Irgendwann in den 70ern kam die Liebe zum Blues, mit Eric Clapton`s "E.C. was here" und Peter Green`s "Need your love so bad". Eric Clapton war dann auch mein erstes großes Vorbild, und was er für ekstatische Soli abliefern kann, zeigt er besonders eindrucksvoll in seiner Zeit bei John Mayall in Songs wie "Key to Love" oder "Stormy Monday". Der nächste große Einfluß war der amerikanische Gitarrist Jonathan Kalb, den ich auf mehreren Livekonzerten Anfang der 80er gesehen und auch persönlich kennengelernt habe. Er steht für den hochdramatischen Stil von amerikanischen Gitarrenschwergewichten wie Albert King und Otis Rush, das ganze mit unglaublicher Präsenz und Power auf einer Stratocaster präsentiert. Seitdem spiele ich Fender Gitarren! 1983 herum war es dann soweit, in einer Ramschkiste bei Quelle entdeckte ich eine Original Arhoolie Pressung der Charles Ford Band, mit Robben Ford an der Gitarre. Und erst recht ab der 1989 erschienenen "Talk to your Daughter" LP ist Robben Ford mein absoluter Favorit. Es gibt wohl keinen anderen Gitarristen auf der Welt, der die Kraft des Blues mit der Eleganz und Intelligenz des Jazz so nahtlos vereinen kann. Und meine Vorliebe für diesen singulären Gitarristen konnte man besonders gut bei "Blue Mind" hören, wir liehen uns teilweise das halbe Programm von ihm aus. Klar habe ich ihn schon öfters live gesehen, besonders eindrucksvoll war das Konzert 1989 im Schlachthof in München mit Blue Line + Bill Boublitz und Bob Malach, oder 1997 im Bayrischen Hof in München mit Gary Novak und Chris Chaney. In meiner CD-Sammlung befinden sich auch ca. 40 CDs von und mit ihm, auf denen seine Entwicklung gut nachzuvollziehen ist.
Wenn Robben gerade mal nicht da ist (und das ist leider oft der Fall), kann man aber mit uns prima die Zeit bis zu seinem nächsten Konzert verbringen! Oder hört Euch den Münsteraner Gitarristen Gregor Hilden an, er ist mehr an Peter Green orientiert und hat einen wirklich fantastischen Ton, als richtiger Equipment Fetischist spielt er auch immer erstklassiges Material, vorwiegend Les Pauls und Fender oder Kitty Hawk Amps. Sehr empfehlenswert! Und da gibt es noch Rudi Feuerbach aus Eisenach, der mit seiner "undertaker blues band" hervorragenden modernen Blues spielt.
Zu meinen liebsten zeitgenössischen Gitarristen zählen auch Volker Strifler und Scott Henderson, beide technisch brillante Musiker, die durch hohe Emotionalität und ein gerütteltes Maß an musikalischem Wissen glänzen. Beide vereinen Jazz, Rock und Blues zu einem funkensprühenden Cocktail, ihre CDs sind absolut empfehlenswert. Live habe ich sie bisher leider nicht erleben können, aber die Herren sind ja noch nicht so alt wie B.B. King, da habe ich noch berechtigte Chancen.
Zählt schon Robben Ford zu den "most underrated" Gitarristen, so trifft das noch mehr auf David Grissom zu, der mir schon bei Bruce Willis "If it does not kill you, it makes you stronger" aufgefallen ist. Jetzt hat er endlich seine eigene CD "Loud Music" veröffentlicht, vorher hat er sein Talent in den Dienst von z.B. Joe Ely, John Cougar Mellencamp oder Robben Ford ( Mystic Mile) gestellt. Sein Ton ist schon aussergewöhnlich, fett und singend, seine Spielweise mit Pickingelementen ist erst recht völlig eigenständig, dazu gibt es in Youtube jede Menge zu sehen, z.B. Storyville, wo er mit Dave Holt an der zweiten Gitarre, der Double Trouble Rhythm Section mit Chris Layton und Tommy Shannon, und Malford Milligan als Sänger absolut fetzigen Bluesrock spielt.
"Most underrated" Gitarristen haben mich schon immer sehr interessiert, und auf wen könnte das besser zutreffen als auf Jim Mullen, den englischen Jazzgitarren-Meister. Bestechende Technik, fantastischer Sound und ein untrüglicher Spürsinn für die richtige Note zur richtigen Zeit zeichnen den großartigen Musiker aus. Zum ersten Mal habe ich ihn in den 80ern gesehen, als er Jimmy Witherspoon begleitete, und dann später noch einige Mal in kleinen Jazzclubs in Nürnberg. Wenn ihr die Chance habt, ihn mal live erleben zu können, geht hin, absolut empfehlenswert.
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Blue Heat,
Germany,
International
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Hustle Is On - B. B. & The Blues Shacks
The BB’s are masters of their instruments and make the audience feel the deep emotions that lie in the sound of hand-made R&B. Their music is fun and sweeps the listeners away.
Meanwhile they have played more than 2500 gigs, won numerous awards and recorded
eleven albums, the latest one with a Grammy winner.
They have received numerous honors and awards including „Best European Blues Band“. The latest album was awarded with the German Record Critic’s Award They are touring from Barcelona to Moscow and thrilled a crowd of 10 000 with their performance in L.A.
Ladies & gangsters: it's blues time!
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