11/05/10 - Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill
12/05/10 - Amber Rooms, Exeter
13/05/10 - The Thunderbolt, Bristol
14/05/10 - New Forest Arts Centre, New Milton
15/05/10 - Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
16/05/10 - Hop Pole, Aylesbury
18/05/10 - Mark Lamarr, BBC Maida Vale
19/05/10 - New ...Little
Civic, Wolverhampton
20/05/10 - Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford
21/05/10 -
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal
22/05/10 - The Arc, Stockton
23/05/10 - Baby Blue Club, Liverpool
25/05/10 - Band On The Wall, Manchester
27/05/10 - Ashcroft Arts Centre, Fareham
28/05/10 - The Tin Angel, Coventry
29/05/10 - Town Hall, Selby
30/05/10 - Green Note, Camden, London
31/05/10 - The Globe, Cardiff
Louisiana Red
was born in Alabama in 1932, and is one of the last great
bluesmen still performing, who earned his place in the blues via the
harsh
realities of life and who learned his craft from the fathers and
grandfathers
of the blues; Son House, Elmore James, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Arthur Crudup,
Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters & John Lee Hooker, to name just a few!
When Louisiana Red performs, the songs
are often only a launch pad for
expressing his immediate feelings, in the almost lost tradition of
spontaneous
composition that goes back to the original Delta Blues artists and even
further
to the West-African griots. From the old acoustic Delta sounds of Robert
Johnson, all the way to the urban electric Chicago style of his mentor
Muddy Waters,
Louisiana Red’s great versatility shines.
Louisiana Red’s albums have been called
masterpieces by critics, and in 1983 he
won a W.C. Handy Award as ’Best Traditional Blues Artist’.
Michael
Messer
was born in Middlesex in 1956, and is recognised
as one of
the leading slide guitarists and blues innovators around the world. His
playing
encompasses the entire history of the blues, but is uniquely
contemporary
and highly individual. Being
an English bluesman with an international reputation
for slide guitar is a rarity in itself and Messer’s obsessive appetite
for knowledge
of his art is virtually unrivalled.
The American magazine, ‘Spirit’ listed Michael
as one of the greatest slide guitarists ever alongside Duane Allman and
Ry Cooder".
Michael Messer’s accolades include a US number one blues album in 2001
and
the award for ‘Best International Blues Guitar Album’ in 2003.
One prominent
US journalist described him as “an unavoidable force in modern blues”.
In addition, Johnny Cash was a fan of Messer’s and wrote the CD liner
notes for his 1993 album, Rhythm Oil.
