Mittwoch, 3. August 2016

03.08. Mercy Dee Walton, Matthew Skoller, Ronnie Shellist, Tommy Moberg,Tobias "Körrie" Kantner,Cesare Carugi *











1915 Mercy Dee Walton*
1971 Ronnie Shellist*
1978 Cesare Carugi*
Matthew Skoller*
Tommy Moberg*
Tobias "Körrie" Kantner*












Happy Birthday

 

Mercy Dee Walton   *03.08.1915

 



Mercy Dee Walton (August 3, 1915 – December 2, 1962)[1] was an American jump blues pianist, singer and songwriter,[2] whose compositions went from blues to R&B numbers.[3] According to journalist Tony Russell in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, "Walton created a series of memorable blues about the unattractiveness of rural life, sardonically aimed at the black migrant workers in southern California who constituted his typical audience".
Born in Waco, Texas, United States,[1] he moved to California just before World War II.[4] He started playing piano at age 13 and learned his style from many of the ten-cent party house pianists that played out in the country on weekends. To make ends meet, he had to earn his living in the fields chopping cotton, picking grapes or cutting spinach. During this time, the musician who impressed Walton the most was Delois Maxey, who never had an opportunity to record. In 1949, Walton made his first record for the small record label, Spire Records in Fresno.[4] The track was "Lonesome Cabin Blues". Shortly after that, he had a national hit on Specialty Records with "One Room Country Shack", now considered a blues standard.[4] After that success, he was able to start working as a musician full time, and he toured with the jump blues band of Big Jay McNeely.[4]
A half dozen tracks recorded for the Flair Records label in 1955, included "Come Back Maybellene," a sequel to Chuck Berry's then-current hit, "Maybellene".[3]
In 1961, Arhoolie Records released an album recorded in Stockton, California entitled Mercy Dee.[4] Featured with him was Sidney Maiden on harmonica, K. C. Douglas on electric guitar and Otis Cherry playing the drums.[3][5]
Walton died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Murphy, California the following year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Dee_Walton



MERCY DEE- ONE ROOM COUNTRY SHACK 









Matthew Skoller   *03.08. 

 



Matthew Skoller (* in New York) ist ein US-amerikanischer Mundharmonikaspieler.

Wie viele Bluesmusiker seiner Generation wurde er genauso von Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix und den Allman Brothers beeinflusst wie von Blueslegenden wie Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Percy Mayfield. Nach seiner Übersiedlung nach Chicago 1987 spielte er mit Jimmy Rogers, Big Time Sarah und Deitra Farr. Ende der 1980er-Jahre spielte und tourte er mit „Big Daddy Kinsey & The Kinsey Report“.

Ab 1992 spielte er mit einer eigenen Band. Seine Komposition „Love Her, Don’t Shove Her“ wurde sowohl von Carey Bell (1997 auf Good Luck Man) als auch von H-Bomb Ferguson (1993 auf Wiggin' Out), dem legendären Blues- und Boogiepianisten aufgenommen.

Als Produzent arbeitete er mit Lurrie Bell (Let’s Talk About Love), [1] ebenso produzierte er „Chicago Blues A living History“, in diesem Projekt spielte er auch Harmonika. Auf den 2 Cds, die den Chicagoblues von seinen Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart dokumentieren, spielen Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch und Lurrie Bell. The Matthew Skoller Band hat regelmäßige Auftritte in den berühmtesten Veranstaltungsorten der USA (Buddy Guy´s Legend, Chicago House of Blues u. a.) Auch auf Bluesfestivals auf der ganzen Welt tritt er auf, in der letzten Zeit häufig mit Chicago Blues A Living History (Cazorla Blues Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Chicago Blues Festival, Luzern Blues Festival …)

b. New York, USA. Playing blues harmonica, Skoller worked with various bands, including the Chi-Town Hustlers and Big Daddy Kinsey And The Kinsey Report. After establishing himself on the Chicago blues club scene, where he attracted a great deal of attention, he formed his own band. His rough-hewn singing voice ably interprets traditional blues themes in which he reveals his admiration for artists such as James Cotton, Walter Horton, Junior Parker, and Jimmy Reed. He and his band quickly built a faithful following. Among band members have been guitarists Lurrie Bell and Larry Skoller, shakuhachi player Brian Ritchie, pianist and organist Sidney James Wingfield, bass player Willie ‘Vamp’ Samuels and percussionists Kenny Smith and Heitor Garcia. Skoller has also recorded with Koko Taylor, appearing on her 2000 recording Royal Blue. Songs in Skoller’s repertoire, much of which he writes himself, include ‘Ghosts In Your Closet’, ‘Wired World’, ‘Let The World Come To You’, ‘Handful Of People’, ‘Down At Your Buryin’’, ‘Stolen Thunder’ and ‘Where Can You Be’. Although best known in and around Chicago, Skoller has appeared internationally, playing regularly in Greece and also visiting clubs and higher profile venues, such as festivals, in the UK, Belgium, France, Italy, Norway, Spain and Switzerland. 
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/matthew-skoller-mn0000391808/biography

MATTHEW SKOLLER is one of Chicago’s most respected harp blowers and blues bandleaders. For the past 27 years he has played all of Chicago’s heaviest showcase venues and toured much of the world with his super tight ensembles. Deeply rooted in the tradition of the Chicago blues elders with whom he worked and studied, Skoller has developed a unique style that conjures the past while being firmly planted in the present. His blues wardrobe clothes a range of original songs whose subject matter comments on many of the issues and realities of life during this age of technology, information and upheaval. Skoller, known for his fiery and engaging performances, combines passionate harp playing and singing with original song writing and prodigious production skills. He has self produced 4 of his own critically acclaimed cds. As a producer he has produced 2 award winning cds by Lurrie Bell: Let’s Talk About Love and The Devil Ain’t Got No Music. Skoller penned the title cut of the latter which was nominated for song of the year by the Blues Awards in the US. The same album was awarded the Prix Blues by L’Academie du Jazz in Paris, France in 2012. Matthew has played harmonica on two Grammy nominated cd’s in the last 4 years: Chicago Blues: A Living History and Still I Rise, by Heritage Blues Orchestra.

Matthew collaborated with his brother Larry Skoller (producer) on the Grammy nominated, historical project, Chicago Blues A living History and co produced and played on volume two The (R)evolution Continues which won Traditional album of the year at the Blues Awards in 2012. He lent his production experience, deep knowledge of Chicago Blues history, and his harmonica to this project that is now being hailed by critics as one of the greatest Chicago Blues events of our time.

In the last 4 years Matthew has played in Mali, Mauritania, Tunisia, Camaroon, asked to be a featured guest with Lurrie Bell at The Japan Blues Festival in Aomori Japan in 2012, only to be asked back in 2013 to headline the same festival with his own group! Matthew has been invited to perform twice at the Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to France in Paris. As well as playing the world renown Montreux Jazz Festival in 2012 and many other festivals throughout Europe and the US. Matthew is also a regular performer at New York City’s 55 Bar where he collaborates several times a year with many of his favorite New York musicians including Bill Sims Jr. and Junior Mack.

2013 Matthew was asked by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events to produce, organize and perform the grande finale of the Chicago Blues Festival. Skoller’s theme was Old School, New Millennium. His mentor James Cotton headlined this star-studded event which was acclaimed as one of the best all-star events in recent Chicago Blues Festival history.

When not on tour Matthew and his group can be seen live in Chicago at many venues including Buddy Guys Legends who has been employing Matthew since their club opened in 1989. 25 years and counting! Matthew has emerged as one of Chicago’s most accomplished blues-based artists.

HISTORY

As with many blues performers of his generation, Skoller has been influenced as much by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix and the Allman Brothers as he has by Little Walter , Muddy Waters, Percy Mayfield and other legends of the blues. Skoller’s take on the blues tradition is about letting his own voice come through – his culture, his experience. Skoller moved to Chicago in January 1987. His already mature harmonica playing led a number of musicians to take him under their wings. He paid his dues backing up a “who’s who” of creative and passionate musicians, including the legendary Jimmy Rogers, Big Time Sarah, and Deitra Farr. Skoller’s emotional, high-energy style caught the ear of veteran bassist/vocalist J.W. Williams who invited Skoller to join his band, the Chi-Town Hustlers. The next year, Skoller became a member of Big Daddy Kinsey and The Kinsey Report, recording and touring with the band throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Despite his success working with others, Skoller heard the crying of an inner voice and since 1992 has led his own band. Like a tornado, he’s blown through the Chicago blues scene. During the 1996 Democratic convention, Tom Brokaw’s NBC Nightly News In-Depth Report featured the Matthew Skoller Band performing live at B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted St. in Chicago. Also in ’96, the band was awarded an artist-in-residency position at the Disney Institute in Orlando, Florida.

RECORDINGS

Matthew has appeared on records released by all of Chicago’s blues labels: Alligator Records, Blind Pig Records, Delmark Records and Earwig Records.

Besides having played on and produced two award winning Lurrie Bell albums in 2007 (Let’s Talk About Love) and 2012 (The Devil Ain’t Got No Music), in 2013 Matthew was the featured harp player on Lurrie Bell’s latest release on Delmark Records for the CD Blues In My Soul.

Skoller also was a featured soloist on both volumes of the Grammy nominated project: Chicago Blues: A Living History.

Matthew also played on Heritage Blues Orchestra’s Grammy nominated 2011 release of And Still I Rise as well as Toronzo Cannon’s 2011 Delmark release Leaving Mood.

Matthew ‘s original compositions have been recorded by amongst others: Carey Bell, H-Bomb Ferguson and Lurrie Bell.

In 1996 the first Matthew Skoller Band CD was released, Bone to Pick with You, which Vintage Guitar Magazine called “a strong debut.”

In 1999, the band released Shoulder to the Wind, for which French Blues magazine Soul Bag noted Skoller’s “excellence as an instrumentalist, but also as a composer.”

TapRoot followed in 2003.

Tongue ‘N Groove Records released the fourth Matthew Skoller Band album, These Kind Of Blues!, in January 2005. This album was picked as one of Mojo Magazine’s Top ten blues albums of 2005. It received rave reviews from nearly every blues publication in the business. In February 2000, Alligator Records employed him to play harmonica on Koko Taylor’s CD, Royal Blue.

Skoller’s harmonica is featured on 11 songs on the CD, Knocking At Your Door, from guitarist John Primer. He’s also played on albums by Bernard Allison, Larry Garner, Big Daddy Kinsey, Big Time Sarah, Michael Coleman, Harvey Mandel, among others and has recorded a number of television jingles as well as music for August Wilson’s Tony Award winning play 7 Guitars for the original Broadway production and for the subsequent 2006 Signature Theater production.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL APPEARANCES

The Matthew Skoller Band is a highly skilled, highly professional organization with extensive regional touring experience, gigs at prestigious national venues, and national and international festival appearances. For the last 25 years, The Matthew Skoller Band over 10 times a year at Buddy Guy’s Legends, perhaps the world’s best-known blues club. This helped them build a large and enthusiastic following throughout Chicago, the Midwest and the world. Skoller and crew had an 8-year run every Sunday at the House of Blues in Chicago and still play the venue on an ongoing basis. Other highlights have been performances at The 2012 Montreux Jazz Festival, The Japan Blues Festival in 2012 and 2013, African tour of Mali, Mauritania, Tunisia and Cameroon. the 2004 Lucerne Blues Festival. The Mawazine World Music Festival in Rabat Morocco in 2006 and again in 2008. Matthew also has performed at numerous festivals and club gigs in England, Italy, Norway, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Chile, Holland, France, Normandy, Germany, Finland, China, Estonia and Austria.
http://matthewskoller.com/bio/matthew-skoller/ 



Matthew Skoller Band " Chicago Wind " 




Matthew Skoller Blues en Bourgogne 2012 chicago blues living history 





 




 Ronnie Shellist   *03.08.1971

 

http://www.ronnieshellist.com/


Ronnie Shellist began his musical career in the late 90's in Austin, TX alongside some incredible harmonica players: Gary Primich, Guy Forsythe, Jimi Lee, and Michael Rubin, just to name a few. Surrounded by great blues everywhere, Ronnie has honed his harmonica skills over the past 18 years. Through his worldwide recognition on YouTube, with 17,000 subscribers and over 8 million views on his teaching and performance videos, Ronnie has made a name for himself as one of the premier blues harmonica players in the world.
He has toured all over the U.S. putting on blues focused harmonica workshops, and has performed at many of the most recognized blues festivals. He's opened for such greats as BB King, Robert Cray, Charlie Musselwhite, The Neville Brothers, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. His most recent venture involves being the first harmonica instructor to offer live online interactive harmonica classes that anyone in the world can join.


Ronnie Shellist has been honing his harmonica skills for the past 17 years.  His musical career began in 1997 working with singer/songwriter Hugh Fadal from Austin,TX.  Blues great Gary Primich, living in Austin at the time, was a huge influence on his music as well.  Guy Forsyth and Walter T. Higgs were other big blues/harmonica influences at the time in Austin.  "If it weren't for those guys, I never would have pushed as hard as I did to learn how to get that sound out of my harp", Ronnie Shellist
In 1998, Ronnie moved to Colorado where he teamed up with the band Available Jones and toured the US in 2000.   He has worked with many greats in Colorado throughout the past 15 years including such locals as John Alex Mason, Lionel Young, Rich Reno, Bob Pellegrino, and Erica Brown.
By 2006, Ronnie began posting performances on YouTube which currently have over 8 million views.  Ronnie's live performances include opening for such greats as BB King, Charlie Musselwhite, Robert Cray and the Neville Brothers.  His style is a combination of mostly Chicago and West Coast blues influenced by funk and jazz as well. The first CD that Ronnie recorded was in 2007, titled Chicago Sessions:  Blues Revue said: "the show belongs to Shellist's toneful harp.." Tom Hyslop, Blues Revue Magazine.  His newest CD "Till Then" was released in March 2012 .  On the CD you'll find mostly originals with a few well known blues covers from some harmonica greats.  Ronnie's rules for playing music: "be passionate while you play, be free, know your instrument intimately, and relax it's just blues!"



Ronnie Shellist, "Evil Woman" at The Texas Harmonica Festival 







Tommy Moberg  *03.08.


https://www.facebook.com/tommy.moberg.7/photos_albums

Trickbag gilt als Top Act in der schwedischen Bluesszene und genießt hohes Ansehen als eine der besten Begleitbands im Blues Business. Trickbag ist erste Wahl für Musiker wie Kid Ramos (US), John Németh (US), Barrelhouse Chuck (US), Gene Taylor (US) und vielen anderen berühmten Musikern für ihre Europatourneen. Trickbag stand unter anderem auch mit Kim Wilson, Jackie Payne, Kirk Fletcher und Earl Thomas auf der Bühne. Ihre jüngste CD „Tailor-Made“, zusammen mit Gene Taylor aufgenommen, wurde zum besten Bluesalbum Schwedens 2007 gewählt.
Besetzung:
Sven Zetterberg (gt, bluesharp)
Tommy Moberg (voc)
Lars Näsman (bs)
Björn Viitanen (dr)
Anders Lewen (gt)
Matti Ollikainen (piano)

Erzählen Sie uns ein wenig über sich selbst , und es gibt musikalische Erbe der Familie.
Hat nur 36 Jahre geworden. Geboren am Högbergsgatan auf Södermalm, durch Hökarängen zu Satra, einem Vorort von Stockholm, wo ich aufwuchs und zur Schule ging. Hat sich an verschiedenen Orten in der Stadt gelebt und lebt seit zehn Jahren in der Vorstadt Solbergavägen. Hat einen Sohn 10 Jahre alt und arbeitet als Ressource Lehrer an einer Schule für geistig behinderte Kinder mild in Skarpnäck. Haben mit Kindern und Jugendlichen gearbeitet , seit ich die Schule abgeschlossen. Genossen die Musik als Neben Besetzung in allen Jahren , aber das Ziel und Wunsch ist , als Musiker zu arbeiten und bekommen es zusammen gehen. Mein Großvater, Harry Andersson war der Bass Ende Lulle Ellbojs Orchester in der Mitte der 40er Jahre, eine große Band , die viel auf den zeitgenössischen Tanz Palast hier in der Stadt , wie der Winterpalast und die Nadel gespielt. Er arbeitete professionell als Musiker seit vielen Jahren mit blah Brüder Theselius und Simon Brehm in der Band Fair Play, aber auch mit Jungs , die Arne Domnérus, Erik Frank, Kjell Ove usw., real big shot an der Zeit. Harrys Bruder Rune war übrigens ein Jazz - Schlagzeuger und spielte mit vielen Bands auch. Großmutter Bruder Arne Tyren ist bassångare und seit vielen Jahren wurde er an der Stockholmer Oper beschäftigt. Er ist auch SINGER lo COURT und siehe! Er tourte auf der ganzen Welt , sondern ist jetzt im Ruhestand. Mein Großvater Birger Moberg hatte Zeit, habe ich leider nie kennenlernen, aber anscheinend war er ein Meister des Akkordeons so sicher gibt es wenig Abstieg in der Familie.
Ich begann Punk zu spielen , als ich 13 Jahre alt war. Es war Schlagzeug. Der schnellste, kann rauesten Punk ein spielen. Wir probten in Satra Jugendzentrum. Ich war 14 Jahre alt , als wir unseren ersten Auftritt im Jugendzentrum hatte. Die Band wurde Junkyard genannt. Dann war es verschiedene Bands mit verschiedenen Stilen. Größte Leidenschaft für Punkhardrock oder besser gesagt, Speed ​​Metal wie wir es nannten. Als ich 16 war, trat ich eine Band namens Agony und unter den ersten Dingen , die wir taten , war auf einer 2-wöchigen Tour nach England zusammen mit Göteborg Punkrocker Anti-Cimex auszuziehen. Es war das erste wirkliche was ich tat , und der Rest der Band war 20 Jahre alt. Wir fuhren die rund in einem Lieferwagen ohne Sitze und lebte auf dem Boden im Haus von "echten" Punks, Jungs , die unter entsetzlichen Bedingungen lebten. Es war hart , Vorort Gigs in Städten wie Leeds und Newcastle und in einigen Städten wurden wir zu größeren Punk Handlungen begangen. Als Teenager all dies zu erleben , war eine echte höjdarupplevelse und eine nützliche Erfahrung für das, was noch kommen sollte . Ein paar Jahre später haben wir einen Vertrag mit Emanzipation des größten Heavy - Metal - Plattenlabel Music For Nations und spielte für sie eine Platte. Der Spaß der Pein war , dass wir einer der Pioniere dieser Art von Musik in Schweden waren. Wenn ich höre jetzt auf das, was ich tat , dann kann ich nicht glauben , wie ich körperlich so schnell spielen könnte. Auch wert alle Bands im Laufe der Jahre zu erwähnen ist Rubbermen, ein verdammt lustige Band lirade Funk, Hard Rock, Alternative ja alles. Wir haben auch einen Teller "Lassen Sie uns Boogie" rief.





John Nemeth with Tommy Moberg. Vocals.Lars Nasman. Guitar. Members of TRICK BAG. February 2016.




Trickbag Album Release 2013 






Tobias "Körrie" Kantner  *03.08.






 Körrie Kantner ist tätig als Musiker (Piano, Blues Harp, Gesang), Arrangeur und Komponist. Er erhielt ab dem 7. Lebensjahr eine klassische Klavierausbildung sowie mehrjährigen Unterricht in Jazz-Improvisation. Mit 16 Jahren entdeckte er die Blues Harp und lernte mit Anfang 20 in Hamburg Abi Wallenstein und Steve Baker kennen, die ihn unter ihre Fittiche nahmen. 1996 gewann er beim “European Harp Festival” in Trossingen in zwei Kategorien den jeweils dritten Platz. Dort spielte er unter anderem Seite an Seite mit Georg Schroeter und Marc Breitfelder, den ersten europäischen Gewinnern der weltgrößten Blues-Challenge in Memphis.

Abi Wallenstein buchte ihn immer häufiger als Duo-Partner, woraus eine inzwischen über 15-jährige erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit entstand. Im KinderKulturbereich der Wilhelmsburger Honigfabrik begleitete er zahlreiche Theater- und Musikprojekte, die regelmäßig mit diversen Preisen und Auszeichnungen der Kinder- und Jugendarbeit bedacht wurden. In den Jahren zwischen 2000 und 2004 war Körrie Kantner an diversen Theaterproduktionen – unter anderem an der Ruhr-Uni Bochum – beteiligt. Mit Bianca Henne inszenierte er einen Kabarettabend namens „Wunschlos Glücklich“ und eine Musicalproduktion, die unter dem Namen „Balkonien im Winter“ einige Bekanntheit in Hamburg erlangte.

Körrie wandte sich danach verschiedenen Musikstilen zu und spielte in verschiedenen Bands mit, unter anderem in der „Phil Kenny Band“ (Irish Folk, 2005-2009) sowie bei „Rebelmusic“ (2005-2008).

Im Blues- und Boogie-Klaviertrio “Ulrike Gaate, Körrie Kantner & Hannes Otahal” gewann Körrie Kantner im August 2011 beim Summer Jazz Festival in Pinneberg den C. Bechstein-Preis. 2007 gründete Körrie die Formation “Körrie Kantner And His Not So Bigband”, die mit eigenen Kompositionen, Texten und Arrangements von Swing, Funk, Rock bis Blues, die 2009 auf dem Summer Jazz Festival in Pinneberg den Preis für das “Beste Gesamtkunstwerk” gewann.

Neben seiner Bühnentätigkeit ist Körrie als Klavier- und Mundharmonika-Privatlehrer, Workshopanbieter an der Hamburger Volkshochschule sowie als Komponist für Filmmusik tätig.

Körrie Kantner And His Not So Bigband

Die "große Band" von Körrie: fette Bläsersätze, A-cappella-Chor, Swingrock und viel Humor in den deutschen Texten. Und natürlich Akrobatik an der Blues Harp!
http://www.notsobigband.de/

Abi Wallenstein und Körrie Kantner

Seit über 15 Jahren regelmäßig gemeinsam auf der Bühne: Blueslegende Abi Wallenstein mit Körrie Kantner an der Harp.

Generationsübergreifender Blues and Boogie!
http://www.abiwallenstein.de/home.htm


Blueswerft

Die vier Jungs von "blues werft" spielen den wahrscheinlich bestgelaunten Blues Hamburgs – auf angenehm nordische Art.

Hier springt Körrie zwischen
Harp, Piano und Gesang.
http://www.blueswerft.de/

1-Quadratmeter-Band

Mit der 1-qm-Band verfolgt Körrie Kantner den empirischen Beweis, dass eine Band in jede Location passt. IN JEDE! Das Konzept ist einfach: die vier Musiker bringen einen genau 1 qm großen Teppich mit, den sie während des Autritts nicht verlassen. Musikalisch gibt es groovigen Blues, feinsten Jazz und derben Rock'n'Roll – immer stilecht.

Körrie spielt hier Harp und singt. Wenn ein Piano im Raum ist, verlässt er dafür auch kurz mal den Teppich.
http://www.1qmband.de/


SOLO-PROJEKTE UND KOMPOSITIONEN

Körrie Kantner ist außerdem als Blues- und Boogie-Pianist tätig, entweder instrumental oder mit eigenem Gesang.

Daneben finden Sie ihn regelmäßig in kurzen Projekten mit wechselnden anderen Künstlern und Stilrichtungen.

Als Komponist ist Körrie Kantner in mehreren Produktionen für Film und Bühne tätig, sowohl für eigene Produktionen als auch in Auftragsarbeiten.

Aktuell arbeitet er gerade am Soundtrack für einen Dokumentarfilm "And We Went To The Moon" (Hören Sie hier einen kurzen Ausschnitt.)
http://www.koerrie.de/koerrie-kantner.php

Andreas Welle, Körrie Kantner: Alabama Blues




Same Old Blues 
Der "Same Old Blues", aufgenommen anlässlich der 1. Gents' Boogie Night im Cotton Club, Hamburg.
Aufnahme vom 4. November 2013.
Matthias Schlechter: piano
Bernd Dietz: drums
Körrie Kantner: hca, voc
 







Cesare Carugi  *03.08.1978





CESARE CARUGI was born in Cecina, Tuscany, Italy, on 1978.
He started playing guitar on 1994, after he fell in love with rock, folk and country music, musically influenced by Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen and Gram Parsons.

After a long apprenticeship, and many shows in local clubs, performing original songs alternating with songs by Simon & Garfunkel, Johnny Cash, Springsteen, Neil Young and others, Cesare began to expand his musical horizons and cross the borders of his town, playing in northern Italy at the Townes Van Zandt Festival in Como (with Eric Taylor, Pete Ross and a bunch of Italian artists), at the Titan Country Night in San Marino and the Light of Day Europe Benefit Festival with Jesse Malin, Willie Nile, James Maddock, Joe D’Urso and Israel Nash Gripka.

After the 6 tracks EP "Open 24 Hrs" (2010), and the 2011 critically acclaimed debut full length album "Here's To The Road" (featuring Michael McDermott, Riccardo Maffoni, Daniele Tenca and many other friends and musicians), Cesare starts a prolific and rewarding acoustic tour, playing all over Italy and Croatia (wanted by the Italian-Croatian Association), with great success in many prestigious national clubs .
It 's just the prologue to "Pontchartrain", his second album , recorded in Cecina and Florence, with the collaboration of a bunch of talented musicians as Paolo Bonfanti, Francesco Piu, american songwriter David Zollo, harp player Andrea Giannoni, bluesman Marcello Milanese, violinist Chiara Giacobbe, up to a productive collaboration with the  Bergamo-based rock band Mojo Filter. They shot together in a hot summer afternoon up in a ’72 Cadillac Eldorado the "We'll Meet Again Someday" videoclip, that is enjoying a very good success viewing on Youtube.

"Pontchartrain" is a new beginning , also for a tour both acoustic and electric, with a band whose members come from very different backgrounds.
"Pontchartrain" was released on September 24th and distributed in Italy by IRD , and the legendary rock journalist Blue Bottazzi has already called it "one of the best rock albums of 2013 ."



CESARE CARUGI | The Underworld 




CESARE CARUGI | John Butler Train (Lyrics Video) 
Cesare Carugi - John Butler Train
New record "Crooner Freak" will be available from April 5th released by MRM/Appaloosa Records.

CESARE CARUGI: Vocals, acoustic/electric guitars
TIM EASTON: Mandolin
JOE BARRECA: Upright Bass
RICCARDO MACCABRUNI: Accordion
MATTEO D'IGNAZI: Drums, Percussions
 




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