Louisiana
Red & The Blues Masters All Star Band (US/N)
Louisiana
Red er ikkje berre ein spennande og dyktig bluesartist, han opplever
sjølv bluesen gjennom sitt gitarspell og sin song.
Han er ein av få artistar i dag som til fulle tar vare på
det opprinnelege i Delta Bluesen.
Gjennom si karriere som spenner over meir enn femti år har
han spelt saman med dei fleste storleikane innan bluesmusikken.
Mange vil sei at jammane saman med BB King og Muddy Waters
har vore dei beste.
Intensitet og entusiasme er svært viktige stikkord for alle
LR sime framføringar. Det betyr ingen ting om scenen står føre
10.000 menneskje på ein stor festival, eller 100 personar i eit
lite klubblokale.
I sommar står denne dyktige artisten på
scenen i Skånevik saman med The Blues Master All Star Band
leda av Tor
Einar "Dauman" Jacobsen.
Louisiana
Red har gitt ut mange CD’ar med gode kritikkar og han har
vunne ein W.C. Handy Award for beste tradisjonelle bluesartist.
Kort
frå biografien
The current blues scene in
the U.S. and Europe is characterized by a wide variety of styles and
musicians. However, as the years go passing by there are fewer and
fewer artists left that were active during the formative years of
blues music, those who participated in the development of the music.
Thus, it is all the more
important and cause for celebration that there are still artists
such as Louisiana Red.
Louisiana Red has lived the
Blues. And Louisiana Red not only plays the Blues, he lives it
through his guitar and his singing. Strongly influenced by Muddy
Waters, Lightnin‘ Hopkins and Arthur Crudup, he has long ago found
his own voice, his own style, his own form of expression.
When Red performs, the songs
are often only launching pad for expressing his immediate feelings
in the almost lost tradition of spontaneous composition that goes
back to the original Delta Blues artists an even further to the
West-African griot bards.
In a career spanning over
half a century, Louisiana Red has played with just about every major
bluesman you can name, some of the most memorable encounters being
his jams with B.B.King and Muddy Waters.
But it doesn’t matter who
he plays with or where he appears - Louisiana Red brings the same
intensitiy and enthusiasm to every stage he appears on, whether in
front of 10,000 people at a festival or 100 people in an intimate
club.
Louisiana Red’s albums
have been called masterpieces by critics, and in 1983 he won a W.C.
Handy Award as best traditional blues artist. After living in
Germany for 20 years, he has made a several triumphant comeback
tours in the United States.
But if you ask Red about it,
he won’t tell you much about his success. He’ll much rather talk
about his latest CD project, about a new song or a new guitar lick.
Because Louisiana Red is constantly creating, always searching für
another expression of his blues. For once, the hyperbole ist
justified: Louisiana Red is the Blues.
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