Land of a 1000 dreams, that's the title of Shawn Kellerman`s cd. It brings steamin' blues and funky tunes with very cool guitar playin' I named Shawn "FASTLANE" Kellerman.
Shawn is one of the bluesmen who tries to build a bridge between old school and the hiphop/MTV generation.
GREAT CD: just BUY it !

Superfloor's first cd called Karma Baby acclaimed lots of good reactions and reviews. "Led Zep with a female singer".
Well, they sure aint copy cats: it's SUPERFLOOR from Arnhem, the Netherlands. Buy the cd @ cd baby and more

Mariëlla Tirotto and the Blues Federation

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

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!

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

Two giants on trumpet with a jazz classic "autumn leaves": miles davis and Chet Baker.

French Trumpet player Erik Truffaz. An unique mix of Jazz, trance, hip-hop,world music, rock,jazzrock,soul, nu-jazz !

Absolute great music, Truffaz sounds like Miles Davis now and then, but created his own musical hemnisphere. Great band as well!!
This song is trumpet and OUD (Arabic guitar like instrument) that leads me to Morocco as the Provence as well. Great tune.

LINK: http://www.eriktruffaz.com/

The great John Trudell: the voice of native Americans. Hard life...still raisin' his voice. Proud music, mix of tribal voices, instruments and sounds with some rock and blues.
Lyrics full of dreams, politics and protest.

Listen to Otis Taylor and Grayson Capps as well. Voices of protest with great songs,lyrics and music. No matter their background, race or skin..

LINK: http://www.johntrudell.com

Punks of the Blues: White Stripes. Love it or hate it.
Is this Robert Plant singing on double speed
??

Once more, the great Ian Siegal.

MAN! What a great sound. Quite unique. Hypnotic, on the edge. Otis Taylor is called MALCOLM X of the blues. A great artist, genuine in his music and lyrics.

One of the most interesting bands from the past decades in my opinion.
This cold, bare, fanatic, intense sound of David Eugene Edwards and his band... Sacred and: beware you sinners! Humble David Eugene with the bible as his weapon. Awsome!

The live dvd from Sixteen Horsepower shows their great class in songwriting and instrumentation. The king is dead, long live the king! (new king's name is Woven Hand)

LINK: http://www.16horsepower.net/

I heard this LP GC&DD for the first time when i was 15 years of age. The only music with banjo / country i knew up till then was a song from ANY GET YOUR GUN, the well known musical and Johny Cash of course.
I was struck by the intimacy and gentle, proud instrumentation combined with great vocals. Sunshine! My neighbour gave me the LP as a present instantly because of my reaction. I still treasure it..

Australian Jeff Lang chilling music ! For all fans of Chris Whitley, Ry Cooder, 16 horsepower, Americana and well...just honest good music with lots of chilling slide guitar.

On the pic, Jeff is the guy sitting on the floor, with CHRIS WHITLEY beside him, with one of his national steel dobro guitars.

LINK: http://jefflang.com.au/

Katrina came...the levees broke. A major disaster for inhabitants of 'the big easy' New Orleans.
This Grayson Capps song is a strong and proud signal to the failing Bush government. See Spike Lee's new film : When the Levees Broke.

Great song, like all songs from Grayson Capps.

I first heard Otis Taylor songs in the movie "The Badge" .
NOminated several times for W.C. Handy awards. Give it a listen!
LINK: http://www.myspace.com/tranceblues

Texan Ian Moore, a somewhat strange but talented artist. A bit of blues, bit of soul, rock.
This song is really cool.

Mary once owned a Cajun food Restaurant in the States. Nowadays, she's famous as an artist who brings chilling songs of desperation, misfortune and misfits.
Now on tour in the Netherlands!
One of the most impressive roots americana artists in my opinion

Lady Day. My father used to listen to jazz music.
I was thrilled by her Voice when i first heard her sing.. blues, jazz and soul to the bones..

Two giants on slide guitar here!
I once saw Little Feat at Rockpalast on German tv in the 70's. It became one of my favourite bands. Lowell explained the technique of bottleneck guitar playing after the show. Very impressive!

Dutch bluesrock band inspired by Rory Gallagher, Sonny Boy Williamson and Cajun. Rock Rollin' Blues.
A symphatic bunch of guys, it's party time when they rock the place.

LINK: www.thejukejoints.com

Imperial Crowns played BLuesclub XXL Wageningen a few years ago.
They were steaming hot, mean, hypnotic, dirty and rocking!
PREACHING THE BLUES !

LINK: www.imperialcrowns.com

Saw this hard working Texan live two times in Rhinetown. Monti sure can play the Texas Blues!

This old Scruggs tune makes my blood run faster. Typical proud rich and fast Bluegrass sound. From "Banjos that destroyed the world"

Raised on cornbread? Makes we think of endless lazy summerdays with my love close to me with her sweet smell and Southern Belle beauty. Mmmm.
Tony Joe White's sound is with me for all my life, since my mother loved his songs (Polk Salad Annie)

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

Well, after Mick Taylor another Icon of blues guitar who started out in the 60's: Dutchman Jan Akkerman. Former brainbox and focus member.
Chosen as best guitarist of the world in 1969 !
Plays classic guitar,jazz,rock,jazzrock,blues,fusion you name it!

Well Folks, it was an unique happening. Mick Taylor's technique and sound is very impressive. A very warm and true blues gig this was. Lots of long athmosperic intense solo's. Thanks Mick!

"YES! Tonight i'm going to a unique concert: Mick Taylor all star Band live @ Ochten, Gelderland, Netherlands !!

Opening act is Rob Orlemans & Halfpast Midnight!

A lot of Rolling Stones fans will show up. I really look forward to see an Icon of blues alive!"

Great jazz group, unique pure esotheric soundscapes.

Friends of mine through myspace.com

LINK: http://www.fareed.com

This desperate, howling and barenaked song is SO essential to me!
Lee Clayton is so desperate, honest in his lyrics it's almost frightening.
Philip Donelly, his gitarist from Ireland, is a perfect 'translator' for Lee's feelings and thoughts with his outstanding guitar sound.
(cold night in the desert, wolves howling, seeking absolution..)

Robert Lee Burnside: RIP, he died in 2005. His doctors told him NO MORE ALCOHOL. R.L. then decided he could not play the blues without "moonshine" no more.. isn't that THE blues?

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

Very talented young guitar player from the U.K. Member of Ian Siegal's band but records his own cd's and plays with his own unique trio consisting of guitar,keyboards and drums!
I had the pleasure to visit a live gig of Matt @ bluesclub XXL Wageningen.
It was mindblowing!

LINK: http://www.nugenerecords.com/

This man plays his guitar like Jimmy Hendrix did: lefthanded.
Impressive list of cd's and a very nice person.
See him on stage november 17, Bluesnight Ochten with MICK TAYLOR !

LINK: http://www.gitaarnet.nl/magazine/gitaarvan/roborlemans/roborlemans.php3

http://www.bluesstage.nl

At parties on highschool, students were either BLUES/ROCK fans or Disco/Soul fans. Me, dressed in "Rory Gallagher" shirt, levi's and Original Rockports shoes i did like those ( Philly and Motown) soul music although that was "not done". It was all Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rory, Pat Travers, Allman Bros, Muddy Waters etc.
We didn't dance but watched the girls shake their booty
, and acted cool of course.

LINK: www.aaeg.com/trammps.htm

I had the pleasure to enjoy two gigs of Ron Hacker @ Bluesclub XXL Wageningen over the last two years.

Impressive guitar player with a great band. Calls himself ' white trash bluesman' and wrote a book about his typical blues life.
Ron IS the blues!

One underrated bluesman in my opinion.
GREAT LYRICS this one, anti Bush government.
".i lied to start a dirty war, i lied and lied some more..now a lot of mothers kids won't come home no more. You know those kids are gone, they will come home no more. But i'm the president..." SLIDE!!!!!!!!

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

Great tune from Rhinetown blues & americana artist Harpo van Aggelen.
From his "Official Bootleg demo" cd.

This one's 4 my lovely wife, one of our favorite tunes.
Just the perfect soul and funk sound. Timeless, cool, hot, sensual.

Man, that mean raw voice and superior yet dirty guitar sound.
Blues to the bone! " But i'm horny as i can be"

An instrumental from Wageningen based independent artist Henk "Harpo" van Aggelen. A multi instrumentalist with roots in blues and Americana.
Henk's creating his music @ home, does his own recording, mixing and produces his own music on his independent HARMONICANA label.

For people who dig Chris Whitley, the old bluesmasters, Americana, Hans Theessink, Kelly Joe Phelps etc. etc.

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

Legendary Dutch Blues Masters Livin' Blues.
They came out of the vivid music scene in The Hague, with bloodties to Golden Earring, Cuby and many more.

In Memory of John Lagrand.

LINK: http://www.johnlagrandbluesharp.web-log.nl/

Question is: is Drenthe the "Dutch Texas" ?
Harry 'Cuby' Muskee is still performing, his voice is like a very rare old whiskey nowadays.

I was speechless and impressed by their sad, almost jazzy atmosphere on their first releases.

LINK: http://home.wxs.nl/~dbron/cuby.htm

Come on over to play some gigs in the Netherlands, you Southern Boys!!
Their sound is so....well JukeJoint like.. (to be honest: i've never been to one...hope to go there one day. travel some backroads and lose myself for a while in a jukejoint)

Anyway: great band.

I was suprised today to find a message from BOBTJE on my MYSPACE page (http://www.myspace.com/callmejayfarmer) that this humble podcast was reviewed by Vasco on this magnificent blues website from Belgium !!

Thank you for that you fellow BLueslovers @ Bobtjes. I'm honoured !
Don't forget to read Bobtjes blog on his journey to the South of the US. Very interesting!

My intention is to podcast longer episodes in the nearby future, i have to figure out the technology to upload bulk files with audio comments... (yes you are free to send in your usefull help on this ;-0)

Another legend who passed away recently....

Not only is Africa the motherlode of the Blues but there is a lot of great blues played over there today!
Desert Blues !

During his life, i was lucky to see and hear 3 performances of him.
First time was in the year his first cd was released at PARKPOP Den Haag. He played a crowd of over 180.000 people.
Second time was at TIVOLI Utrecht. His guitar sound was more intens and raw already compared with first gig.

Last time was at Doornroosje Nijmegen. This was a solo performace in 2003. He looked very fragile, lonely and almost haunted. Did he already suffered from cancer then?

May you have found the GOOD RED ROAD Chris...

Listen to one of the fast rising stars in the blues scene of today.
Ian "The revelator" Siegal from the UK.

He played Bevrijdingsfestival 5 mei 2004 open air in Wageningen, my hometown. LINK: www.wageningen.nl

His dvd is stunning with splendid performance from his band and Matt Schofield (see picture) LINK: www.iansiegal.com