Slidewinder

Descrizione Brani 1.Cover Up 2.I Wish You Luck 3.Coming on Too Strong 4.Walking Blues 5.Terraplane Blues 6.Gazing Out My Window 7.Tip-Walk 8.Red Hot 9.Pretty Girls Everywhere 10.Down in Mississippi L'artista Roy Rogers is the highly acclaimed San Francisco Bay area artist who is known as one of the premier slide guitarists performing today. He is also an internationally acclaimed (and Grammy Award winning) producer for John Lee Hooker, Ramblin' Jack Elliot and others. Born in Vallejo, California in 1950, he began playing guitar at twelve years of age and a year later was performing in a rock 'n' roll band that played Little Richard and Chuck Berry tunes in gold lame jackets. He discovered the blues when his older brother brought home an album by Robert Johnson. These classic 1930's recordings had an immediate effect on young Roy, who was indeed named after the King of the Cowboys. Eight years later he discovered Elmore James, "and at that minute I was into slide playing." During the 1960's Rogers frequented the San Francisco rock clubs where he saw many of the blues greats who inspired him. He performed with various groups until 1976, when he and harmonica player David Burgin formed an acoustic duo and recorded an album Rogers And Burgin: A Foot In The Door for Waterhouse Records. They also played on the "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" movie soundtrack before splitting up. Rogers then formed his own band in 1980, the Delta Rhythm Kings, hit the club circuit, played a few more movie and television gigs, and toured Europe with the 1982 San Francisco Blues Festival Revue (recording an album with that Revue in Paris). Shortly after returning from Europe, Rogers was asked to join John Lee Hooker's Coast to Coast Blues Band. During the four years he toured with Hooker as a featured guitarist/vocalist, Rogers established a strong personal and professional relationship with the venerated blues legend. Says Hooker, "I just can't say enough good things about Roy. He plays so good. Some of the best slide I've heard, best blues I've heard. He gets real deep and funky, and he masters whatever he plays." Near the end of his tenure in Hooker's band, Roy began to open shows as a solo act, giving him a chance to perform some of the classic country blues and original compositions he'd been perfecting for years. In 1985 he released his first solo album, Chops Not Chaps on his own label, which received wide radio play and was nominated for a W.C. Handy Award. The album was reissued by Blind Pig in 1992. In 1987, Blind Pig released his second solo album, Slidewinder. It includes duets with Hooker and New Orleans piano great Allen Toussaint, as well as cuts with his own band. The rave reviews in the national press and extensive radio play that followed further enhanced Roy's growing reputation. Roy's third solo release, Blues On The Range was issued on Blind Pig in 1989 and continued to win new fans to his incredible slide guitar and songwriting skills. In 1991, Rogers hooked up with another Bay Area artist, harmonica virtuoso and vocalist Norton Buffalo to produce the highly acclaimed release "R & B". The album is a colorful array of acoustic tunes from blues to ballads capturing the incredible chemistry of these powerful performers. The cut "Song For Jessica" received a Grammy Award nomination and another track, "Ain't No Bread In The Breadbox" was made into a performance video which received airplay on many outlets, including The Nashville Network. The duo came back in 1992 with the Blind Pig release "Travellin' Tracks", featuring live performances as well as studio tracks where they are joined by a rhythm section on several cuts.

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