Rich
Harper Band
(US) Rich Harper er sjølvlært blusesgitarist som lærte
ved å lytta til store artistar som Eric Clapton, B. B. King, Rory
Gallagher, Freddy King og Duane Allman og han utvikla sin eigen
slide stil.Etter å ha
starta i med å opptre i småbyar i Pennsylvania flytta han til Los
Angeles for å danna Rich Harper Blues Band.
Bandet har hatt stor suksess med fleira cd-ar
og er blitt eit framifrå blues-/rock band som for fyrste gong dei
vitjar Noreg. Dei har turnert både i Europa, Asia og Australia, der
dei har delteke på dei store blues-festivalane. Bl.a. har dei vore
ein av hovudattraksjonane på den største blusfestivalen i Sverige
( Åmål )dei siste par åra, med fantastiske tilbakemeldingar frå
publikum.I år kjem dei
til Skånevik Bluesfestival.
Frå deira webside With the success of their debut CD, "Don't Think Just Play",
the Rich Harper Blues Band was not only selected as one of
Amazon.com's prestigious "Emerging New Blues Artists", but
Taxim Records, a German label, joined the group's growing list of
blues fans by placing another cut, "She's On Her Way Up",
on their compilation album titled "More Desaster City
Blues". It wasn't long before the band’s name was popping up
in blues magazines everywhere and blues societies were urging their
members to check out the exciting new group who were carving out a
unique niche for themselves in the blues world. By the time the band
released their second CD, "Bottled Up Blues", Europe had
jumped on board by making the band the #1 selling artists in
Switzerland on Amazon's charts. Radio stations worldwide welcomed
the new CD with open arms and this time one of the cuts, "As
She Moved In (My Guitar Moved Out)", topped Rolling Stone
Magazine's "MP3 & More Blues Chart" at #1. The
international blues scene stood up, did a double take, and these
talented artists haven't stopped since.
An international promoter recalls how he came across the band in the
Los Angeles area a few years ago: “While walking past a local club
at 4 o’clock on a Saturday afternoon, I heard the faint sounds of
a band playing, and my curiosity dragged me in. Onstage were three
guys playing great music I did not recognize. I sat down, ordered a
beer and wondered why there was nobody there. Half an hour later
people started coming in, and by 5:30 the place was packed. The
music got louder, and Rich Harper, with his tremendous musical
creativity and playfulness held a tight grip on the crowd as it got
wilder, and it was an amazing experience - like nothing I had ever
witnessed before. It turned out to be a 3-7 pm Saturday gig, except
the audience demanded an extra half set. I said to myself that music
lovers around the world deserve to experience this!"
Since then, the band has toured the world, including their adoptive
countries of Scandinavia, and such exotic locales as Asia and
Australia. They were also humbled and extremely honored to part of a
group that entertained the troops in Iraq in 2004.
They are thrilled to be back in Asia and Scandinavia in 2007, and
are currently working on new material for their latest album.
