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Trampled Under Foot (US).
When was the last time you saw a three piece family blues band with two left handed guitarists? Let alone a blues band with strong vocals both female and male? Trampled Under Foot, winners of the 2008 International Blues Challenge, is like no other blues band you will ever see or hear. Danielle is an amazing blues singer and an excellent bassist. Kris fires right in the pocket on the drums and sings as well. Nick is a strong singer and an accomplished guitarist, winning the 2008 Albert King Award from the IBC. This is probably one of the best acts on the international Blues-stage these days.
James Harman (US)
Harman's professional career began in 1962 after moving to Panama City, Fla. Soon after the move, he discovered like-minded friends, who invited him to black nightclubs to see such performers as Little Junior Parker, Jimmy Reed, Little Milton Campbell, Slim Harpo, Bobby Bland, B.B. King, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Joe Tex and James Carr. He began hanging out on a regular basis and was eventually asked to sit in by local house bands, becoming known as "that boy who sings like a man." Harman appears on more than 30 CD-releases.
Check out James Harman here.Erja Lyytinen (Fin)
Certain musicians possess the ability to move your soul and make you smile all at the same time. Erja Lyytinen happens to be one of them. Recently ranked among the top five guitar players in Finland, this rising young talent has established herself internationally with three highly regarded releases in the past three years. She's a blues artist who doesn't limit herself to the blues, a songwriter and storyteller who transcends the genre's clichés. The blues, in Erja's hands, sounds honest, fresh and hip.
Joanne Shaw Taylor (Uk)
"Last year I heard something I thought I would never hear…a British White Girl playing blues guitar so deep and passionately it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!" (Dave Stewart/Eurythmics). When Dave Stewart had his big experience, Joanne Shaw Taylor was only 16. Her skills at the Telecaster were so perfect that the blues fan and Eurythmics -frontman asked her to join his supergroup D.U.P. to tour Europe in 2002. She was also offered a record contract but the label went bust. Today Joanne is 23 and happy about the fact that she took her time with the recording debut: "I wanted to take time out to really work on my craft and make sure that when I did an album it was the best that I could do.“ Check out Joanne here
"She
plays with more attitude and flare than most. Massive potential here.
Inspiring."
Guitarist magazine
"Catch
her live if you can, then you can say: I was there at the beginning"
Blue Print Magazine
Big Rooney & The Doghouse (N)
”Big Rooney & The Doghouse” is a hard hitting rock/ bluesband from Norway. Latest CD - ”A Murder Of Crows”- recorded in Sun Studio, Memphis was released in june 2009. The US-version – “Memphis Groove” is distributed by Blue Edge Records – www.blueedgerecords.com. Musically the band is grooving on melodic 70’s and 80’s rock’n roll fundet on the Blues as backbone. The sound has got clear inspirations from and references to artists like Nick Cave, Tom Waits, White Stripes and Morphine spiced with a touch of KISS.
Super Chikan (Us)
James "Super Chikan" Johnson is an American blues musician, artist and guitar maker based in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He is the nephew of fellow blues musician Big Jack Johnson. James Louis Johnson was born in Darling, Mississippi on February 16, 1951. He spent his childhood moving from town to town in the Mississippi Delta and working on his family's farms. He was very fond of the chickens on the farm, and before he was old enough to work in the fields, he would walk around talking to them. This led his friends to give him the nickname "Chikan Boy". At an early age, Johnson got his first rudimentary musical instrument, a "diddley bow", which was simply a piece of wood with a piece of baling wire stretched from end to end.
Marc Breitfelder &
Georg Schroeter (Ger)
More than 2000 gigs all over the World.14 CDs,2 Silver Medals (World Harmonica Championship’93), Winner of the European Harmonica Festival ’96, Winner of the “German Blues Challenge 2009”, Winner of the “Baltic Blues Challenge 2009” …As long as we have musicians like this we don't have to worry about the future of Blues and Boogie in Germany" said M.Tiefensee of Blues News 2001. Georg is a Pianist who can express himself in such a great variety of ways and with such skill that the audience is swept away by his intensive and sovereign style .Marcs Harp performance is unbelievable.With his special overblow technique he has redefined the chromatic scale and discovered new dimensions. Check out Breitfelder/Schroeter here
Oli Brown (Uk)
In 2006 Oli Brown was told by Carl Gustafson from the American Blues band Blinddog Smokin' that he should form his own band in his own name - this was the birth of The Oli Brown Band. A major highloght for 2007 was recording a live session for BBC Radio 2 for the Paul Jones Blues Show . Other noteable events that year included supporting acts like Walter Trout, Aynsley Lister, Devon Allman. 2008 was exciting and extremely busy: In January Oli signed to Ruf Records and went to Germany to record his first Ruf Records album, titled "Open Road". Check out Oli Brown here
Henry Butler (Us)
An eight-time W.C. Handy “Best Blues Instrumentalist - Piano” award nominee, Henry Butler knows no limitations. Although blinded by glaucoma since birth, Butler is also a world class photographer with his work displayed at exhibitions throughout the United States. Playing piano since the age of six, Butler is a master of musical diversity. Combining the percussive jazz piano playing of McCoy Tyner and the New Orleans style playing of Professor Longhair through his classically trained wizardry.
Tim Lothar & Peter Nande (Dk)
Pour yourself a tall, cool one and relax… put your feet up, wiggle your toes a little and let your mind jump that old rusty boxcar with “Lonesome Tim” and “Big Boy Pete.” You know Peter as the harmonica-playing front man of The Peter Nande Band. Tim Lothar is the band’s drummer, and as such is a rare, wonderful, extremely musical player. But he’s also a singer and guitar player, and together Tim and Peter create authentic-sounding country blues. Tim’s signature guitar style blends pure Mississippi Delta slide guitar with Piedmont finger pickin’ and a taste of Deep Ellum/North Texas. His singing combines moody, melodic chanting with an incredible, natural vibrato, plus old-time jump-up th’ow-down country preacher ranting that you won’t often hear. Peter, Copenhagen’s favorite son, sings his share of his original blues songs and offers a healthy dose of that patented, sexy harmonica that he’s known for