Les Wilson and great band: boogie blues, bluesrock. Absolute success when playing in YOUR club ! Picture taken @ bluesclub xxl Wageningen, the Netherlands showing delighted fans and Les Wilson. check out http://bluesfarmagency.come2me.nl

The master will give a few performances solo soon!
7 juni Bluesclub xxl Wageningen, Netherlands.

Deltablues at his best !
(photo by courtesy of Dick Meijer)

New cd out now: Ships of Wonder: it's a ***** star ! Only 16 and ....just listen ! Dusty Ciggaar (15) on guitar, Danny van't Hoff (16) on bass and Raphael Schwidessen (17) on drums.

Soulfull, dark, raw and hypnotizing Blues.
A great mix of traditional deltablues and 'modern music'.

Mr. Davis visited our bluesclub xxl Wageningen, Netherlands. Great gig!

At last ! New cd from the purest westcoast bluesman and guitarplayer of our time: mr. Ron Hacker and his Hacksaws. Live in the Netherlands, where Ron played 2 times at bluesclub xxl wageningen. I was lucky to attend. Absolute top notch!
This video gives a good impression on the sound of Ron Hacker, check out more vids where he plays acoustic guitar with slide. CHILLIN' !!

Lean, Mean, Hot, Crawling Chillin' blues from CA-LI-FOR-NIJAAAA !

The great IMPERIAL CROWNS Listen and Sighhhh!!

Live Saturday 3rd of November at Blueshotel Wageningen.
This was a unique gig! after the festival, Jimmy Wood jammed with James Harman, Gene Taylor, Mark Tee and local bluesmusicians untill the break of day. I had a real good bluestime!

Chillin' trance and deep Blues from the Netherlands. RALPH de Jong !!
From his DVD this is EMOTION.

Here's a track of the CD Extra Ordinaire by the VELDMAN BROTHERS, the Netherlands, called "Home".

Recorded as live as possible, at the famous NEW ROAD STUDIO Wijchen, Netherlands. Check out their site, Matt Schofield, Ian Siegal recorded at New Road as well!!

this cd is one of my favorite Blues cd's by far!
Saw Veldman Bros play at Wageningen Blueskroegentocht 2007 and they surely where one of the highlights.

Lots of Harp, Hammond, Guitar and well, just a ***** 5-star Album

http://www.theveldmanbrothers.com

From their debut cd "French accordion blue" here is Dutch Cajunband Les Chats Cadiens. A real live band with excellent musicians, without a bass player: this part is done by Henk de Kat, Europe's best accordion player!
Wall of fame at Bluesclub XXL Wageningen

LINK: http://www.cajunband.nl

Raw to the bone...hard life full of real blues a song by Seasick Steve. Know that he plays a 3 (that's THREE!) string electric guitar he bought at the pawnshop.

LINK: http://www.seasicksteve.com

A videoclip by Rotterdam's EL PINO & THE VOLUNTEERS. Great band of youngsters, bringing a perfect cd "Molten City" . Great songs with dobro, steel guitar, harmonica, mandoline etc. See their live gig at fabchannel.com. For all you Americana and roots lovers out there.

LINK: http://www.elpinoandthevolunteers.com/

From Austin Texas, the lady with the nice dresses and very bluesy and soulfull voice: dede Priest. Chilling voice!
Hear her and band @ blueskroegentocht Wageningen 20/1/07

LINK: http://www.dedepriest.com

Yet another Allen Toussaint production, Betty Harris ! A weird kinda super-funky-psychedelic production here with the eminent METERS.

Moselle, Mississippi based John 'too cool' McCool with an instrumental.
Reminds me of some Pink Floyd pieces, which indicates where Gilmour's roots lie
in the blues that is..

LINK: http://www.myspace.com/toocoolmccool

From their extreme beautiful debut cd as SHINER TWINS, a Dutch roots/blues/americana band. High rankings all over Europe, a 5 star masterpiece. Richard van Bergen and Jack Hustinx and band.

LINK: http://www.shinertwins.com/

It's the Big J from the Rhine Waal Delta ! Listen and get mad. Great slide guitar

LINK: http://www.juliansas.com

From their Heydays: it's the unique Jethro Tull. Wait "heydays" well considering that 'live is a long song' they still are in their heydays! The double LP Living in the past: another great favorite of mine. This is a very robust blues folk jazz song live on video. Great to watch !!

LINK: http://www.jethrotull.com

This Oklahoma Vietnam Vet sounds like the real thing!!

LINK: http://www.watermelonslim.com/

RORY ! RORY ! RORY ! Wauw did we get mad and excited by mr. Rory Gallagher. We dressed exactly like him back in the 70's !! His ROCKPALAST gigs on German tv...we watched it all night long: those were real major happenings. Live Music all night! If you're a fan of Rory, listen to JULIAN SAS then!

LINK: http://www.rorygallagher.com http://www.rockpalast.de http://www.juliansas.com

Live version of Chris' Whitley's poison girl, from his debut cd LIVIN' with the law, which was and still is a masterpiece for all americana, blues and roots fans.

LINK: http://www.chriswhitley.com

Another great storyteller from the US: Jeffrey Foucault.

LINK: http://www.myspace.com/jeffreyfoucault

It's young Irish-Dutch guitarist-singer Sean Walsh and band from their "online demo" . Listen to their debut cd. Bluesrock to the core, strucks like lightning!

LINK: http://www.seanwalshband.com/

It's the Mojo wire from their 1997 very obscure debut "battery acid blues" .
An instrumental with a fierce guitar and splendid rhythm section!

The greatest.... Trane with one of his mindblowing pieces BLUES MINOR.
Stellar uhmm INTERSTELLAR timeless music!!

LINK: http://www.johncoltrane.com/

Obscure song from the mysterious Byard Lancaster. To me, this song is a melting pot of the Doors, Curtis Mayfield, Miles Davis, 60's kind of a space trip on a love train
Just listen, listen well..

LINK: http://www.ooopz.com/byard/

It's Rhinetown's "pride and joy": bluesband the Fake Brothers! The real hot bluesstew thing.

LINK: http://fakebrothers.com/Fake1024/

Dutch Blues once again! It's the soulfull BACKBONES with a funky blues instrumental. They tour with Mike Welch, Dede Priest, Matt Schofield and perform their famous Lester Butler tribute gigs.

LINK: http://www.thebackbones.com

A track from African bluesman Toure (not the soccer player, not the president..) Nice groove.

Alons enfants! It's the great Doucet and band. How i love these fiddle and Acadian accordeon tunes.

Mmmmm! Check these guys out if you dig Curtis Mayfield, War, Herbie Hancock etc! it's soulive indeed.

LINK: www.soulive.com

The boy wonder ! Hall of fame artist of bluesclub XXL Wageningen

TINARIWEN: Amazing blues from the Sahara desert. The band actually formed in 1982 in Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi's rebel camp, but these desert warriors soon concentrated on their Malian homeland. As with their countrymen Ali Farka Toure and Boubacar Traoré, there is a direct line between Tinariwen's desert songs and the blues. Composed of six guitarists-vocalists, a percussionist, and three backup singers, the group plays hypnotic blues figures. When Robert Plant first heard this band perform he stated this was the music he was searching for his whole life!

Yes folks: this is music from blues' motherlode Africa once more!!

LINK: http://tinariwen.artistes.universalmusic.fr/

The Fabulous BLACK KEYS once more ! JukeJoint-blues. Whow!! Ass kickin'

LINK: www.fatpossum.com/artists/blackkeys.html

Blues with a lot of soul and boogie: Sherman Robertson is in the house!
Saw him live twice: TOP of the BILL. Listen and agree!

LINK: http://www.movinmusic.co.uk/sherman_robertson.htm
Hall of fame of www.bluesclub-xxl.nl

Picture by myself during "unplugged" walkin' blues solo by Sherman outside Bluesclub XXL Wageningen, Netherlands

Matt Schofield English giant on guitars. Jazz,blues,fusion,rock,soul,funk. He plays it all ! Great talent. In this song with Dutch blues band Backbones.
Check out nugenerecords for some FREE downloads of Matt Schofield and Ian Siegal music!

LINK: http://www.thebackbones.com/

The Big King / Preacher Solomon Burke. Unique 'mastodont' of R&B, soul, blues and... country!

LINK: http://www.thekingsolomonburke.com/

JW Roy, Dutch singer songwriter Made some wonderfull albums full of melancholic Americana.

LINK: http:// www.jwroy.nl

White trash bluesman Ron Hacker learned to play the guitar because he was full of blues...

LINK: www.ronhacker.com
honoured artist of http://www.bluesclub-xxl.nl

Australian John Butler here on dukejay.podomatic.com !
Dobro, National Steel, Mandoline,Slide guitar he plays them all.

LINK: http://www.johnbutlertrio.com/

Texas bluesman no. 1 Boy what a mean sound!

LINK: www.johnnywinter.net

Charlie Hunter plays an 8 string guitar, thus creating a unique sound.

LINK: www.charliehunter.com

A very weird jam like tune from the great Stanton Moore. Very funkyyyy!

LINK: http://www.stantonmoore.com/

Famous dutch guitar man Eelco Gelling with band with a funky blues, a bit of Meters bassline with a deep south feeling! Ex Cuby and the Blizzards, Golden Earring.

LINK: http://www.eelcogellingband.nl/ http://www.munichrecords.com

From the Waal Delta, Nijmegen, Netherlands: MIKE & the Mellotones.
This is from one of their live cd's, an instrumental.

LINK: http:www.nubluz.com

Dutch blues / rootsrock CUBAN HEELS ! from their gutbucket music cd.
A different class! Super songs, great sound. Listen to the coherent, dirty greasy harmonica, guitar and rhythm section.
Come to Rhinetown soon guys! Since Black keys, North Mississippi allstars won't ...

LINK: www.cubanheelsmusic.com/

Influenced by Southern Rock icons LYNYRD SKYNYRD, DBT manages to create their own fierce, typical southern rock sound. Great tales/ lyrics, great guitars, great band. Saw them live in Doornroosje, Nijmegen,Gelderland a few years ago and they kicked my ass heavy, a 3 hour gig !

LINK: http://www.drivebytruckers.com/

Fat possum label: bringing us surprising blues artists like Black Keys and....mr:

T-Model Ford, Mississippi born. Raw sound, hard life... This sounds like he's been to the crossroads several times allright.

Watch T-Model Ford LIVe @ bluescafe Apeldoorn 10th of May!!
(http://www.bluescafe.nl)

LINK: http://www.fatpossum.com/

Bill Frisell: like Truffaz constantly seeking new sounds, melting all kind of influences!

Great, great musician!

LINK: http://www.billfrisell.com and on myspace.com