Bob Brozman (born 1954) is an American guitarist and ethnomusicologist. He has performed in a number of styles such as blues, Gypsy jazz, calypso, ragtime, Hawaiian and Caribbean music. Brozman has also collaborated with musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds such as India, Africa, Japan, Papua New Guinea and Reunion Island. He has been called "an instrumental wizard" and "a walking archive of 20th Century American music.
Stefan Grossman (born April 16, 1945) is an American guitarist, teacher and businessman. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he began playing guitar at the age of nine, turning to blues after hearing the music of Big Bill Broonzy and others at the age of 15. At this time, he began studying blues styles with the legendary Reverend Gary Davis who lived in the Bronx at the time. His music remains rooted in the blues but is not limited to it. However, his love of the blues and a desire to 'spread the word' lead him to produce a large number of tutorials including recordings, videos, CDs and DVDs.
Sonny Landreth released his Newest CD: "From the Reach"!“From the Reach,” Sonny Landreth’s ninth album, is the first to be released on his own Landfall label. On it, the Louisiana-based slide guitar wizard does something unprecedented in his body of work, as he collaborates with five of the greatest guitar players on the planet – Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson and Vince Gill – for some jaw-dropping performances.
Let me tell you a little about Junior Victor…
"Imagine Gary Wilmot wrestling a bear on the top
of a Lidl for a rare Faberge Egg that looks strikingly like Jagger"
– This is how the band like to describe their music.
Although a more accurate description would be an
IndiePunkRockRollPowerPop extravaganza.
The band consists of four members,
a Guitarist and singer {Paul Orwell}, a Lead Guitarist/Keys {John Baker},
a Bassist {Joe Lattimer}.
Corey Harris (born February 21, 1969, Denver, Colorado) is a guitarist based in New Orleans on the Alligator label. He spent some time in western Africa studying, and rhythms from this area are very prevalent in his music, most conspicuously in "Mississippi to Mali." He performs a wide variety of music, from poppy selections (Santoro, eg) to raw, traditional guitar and piano blues (Honeysuckle, eg). He is one of the few contemporary blues artists that is able to avoid being either a staunch traditionalist or totally separated from its roots.
Lancashire born, acclaimed slide guitarist, Bryn Haworth, is also a singer songwriter and a top performer who has been delighting audiences with his own unique brand of rock, country and gospel blues for over 30 years.
Bryn came to London from Lancashire in the late sixties and joined "Les Fleur de Lys" a motown/soul band which became house band for Atlantic Records in England. He left the band in '69 and travelled to California; from there he toured extensively in the US in various American bands and was a founder member of Wolfgang...
WOLF MAIL
As one of North America
Paradigm refers to at least three entities: 1) An American “prog-jazz art rock” group that was formed in 2004.
2) A British group that was formed in 2001.
3) An American synthpop group that was formed around 1999. 1) Paradigm creates anthems for the subconscious. The music flits in and out of genres and moods: at times heavy and driving, sometimes funky and joyous, and other times drifting in dreamy sonic explorations.
Eric Sardinas, is an American blues-rock guitarist born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1970. He's noted for his use of the electric resonator guitar and his powerful live performances. Sardinas first picked up the guitar at age six and leaned toward vintage recordings by such Delta bluesmen as Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Big Bill Broonzy, Elmore James and Muddy Waters. Although he was a born lefty, he eventually started to play right handed and his impressive style may be due to this fact. "The rawest, most emotional music is what sparked my excitement for the blues," Eric says.
