1928 Little Sammy Davis*
1946 Blues Boy Willie*
1949 Paul Shaffer*
1964 Ralf Lorenzen-Klein*
1971 Papa George Lightfoot+
1978 Tim De Graeve aka Tiny Legs Tim*
1987 Ori Naftaly*
2002 Dave „Snaker“ Ray+
Neil Sadler*
Torsten "Red Fox" Rolfs*
Happy Birthday
Paul Shaffer *28.11.1949
Paul Allen Wood „Shiv“ Shaffer (* 28. November 1949 in Fort William, Kanada) ist ein kanadischer Keyboarder, Musikproduzent und Komponist.
Er spielte mit vielen internationalen Größen, u. a. Eric Clapton, Gloria Estefan, Justin Timberlake, u. v. m. 1985 war er der Bandleader beim Live-Aid-Festival.
Seit 1982 leitet er außerdem die Band der von David Letterman moderierten Late-Night-Shows. Er komponierte die Musik für den Film Blues Brothers 2000 und spielt darin auch eine kleine Nebenrolle. Ebenso hatte er auch weitere kleine Auftritte in Filmen und Serien wie This is Spinal Tap, Ed – Der Bowling-Anwalt und How I Met Your Mother (Staffel 8, Folge 175).
Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM[1] (/ˈʃeɪfər/; born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's musical director, band leader and sidekick since 1982.
Early years
Shaffer was born and raised in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, Canada, the son of Shirley and Bernard Shaffer, a lawyer;[2] Shaffer was raised in a Jewish family. As a child Shaffer had lessons on the piano, and by his teenage years had moved on to playing the organ in a band called Fabulous Fugitives with his schoolmates in Thunder Bay. Later he performed with the "Flash Landing Band" at different venues around Edmonton and the Interior of B.C. Educated at the University of Toronto, he began playing with jazz guitarist Tisziji Muñoz, performing in bands around the bars there, where he found an interest in musicals, and completed his studies, with a B.A. degree in Sociology in 1971.[3]
Musical career
Shaffer began his music career in 1972 when Stephen Schwartz invited him as the musical director for the Toronto production of Godspell,[1] starring Victor Garber, Gilda Radner, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin. He went on to play piano for the Schwartz Broadway show The Magic Show in 1974, then became a member of the house band on NBC's popular Saturday Night Live (SNL) television program from 1975 to 1980 (except for a brief departure in 1977). Though Shaffer was at the piano and appeared to be directing the band's actions, Howard Shore was credited as SNL's musical director, eventually turning the actual conducting of the band to sax player Howard Johnson. Shaffer also regularly appeared in the show's sketches, notably as the pianist for Bill Murray's Nick the Lounge Singer character, and as Don Kirshner.
Shaffer occasionally teamed up with the Not Ready for Prime-Time Players off the show as well, including work on Gilda Radner's highly successful Broadway show and as the musical director for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd whenever they recorded or performed as The Blues Brothers. Shaffer was to appear in the duo's 1980 film, but, as he revealed in October 2009 on CBS Sunday Morning, Belushi dropped him from the project. In a nasty memo to fellow SNL colleagues, Belushi said that he was unhappy that Shaffer was spending so much time on a studio record for Radner. Belushi said that he had tried to talk Shaffer out of working on the album in the first place in order to avoid sharing Shaffer's talents with another SNL-related project.[4] Shaffer later reported that he was in (unrequited) love with Gilda Radner.[5] He would go on to appear in 1998's Blues Brothers 2000.
Since 1982, Shaffer has served as musical director for David Letterman's late night talk shows: as leader of "The World's Most Dangerous Band" for Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993) on NBC, for which he also composed the theme song, and as leader of the CBS Orchestra for the Late Show with David Letterman (1993–present) on CBS. Letterman consistently maintains that the show's switch to CBS was because NBC "fired Paul for stealing pens" or some other facetious reason. Shaffer has guest-hosted the show twice when Letterman was unavailable, including during Letterman's January 2000 medical leave for quintuple heart bypass surgery, and during the birth of Letterman's son Harry in November 2003.
In 1984, Shaffer played keyboards for The Honeydrippers, a group formed in 1981 by former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant, on their only studio album, The Honeydrippers: Volume One.[6]
Shaffer has served as musical director and producer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony since its inception in 1986 and filled the same role for the 1996 Olympic Games closing ceremonies from Atlanta, Georgia. Shaffer also served as musical director for Fats Domino and Friends, a Cinemax special that included Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis and Ron Wood.
Shaffer has released two solo albums, 1989's Grammy-nominated Coast to Coast, and 1993's The World's Most Dangerous Party, produced by rock icon Todd Rundgren. Shaffer has also recorded with a wide range of artists, including Donald Fagen, Ronnie Wood, Grand Funk Railroad, Diana Ross, B.B. King, Asleep at the Wheel, Cyndi Lauper, Carl Perkins, Yoko Ono, Blues Traveler, Jeff Healey, Cher, Chicago, Luba, Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Nina Hagen, Robert Plant, Peter Criss, Scandal, Brian Wilson, Late Show regular Warren Zevon, jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff, jazz saxophonist Lou Marini and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs. In 1982, he co-wrote "It's Raining Men," with Paul Jabara. It was #1 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charts, a #2 hit in the UK for The Weather Girls in 1984 and a UK #1 remake for Geri Halliwell in 2001. Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band performed the Chuck Berry song "Roll over Beethoven" for the 1992 film Beethoven.Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM[1] (/ˈʃeɪfər/; born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian-American musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's musical director, band leader and sidekick since 1982.
John Mayer Jamming with Paul Shaffer Band
Blues Boy Willie *28.11.1946
William Daniel McFalls, better known as Blues Boy Willie (born November 28, 1946), is an African-American electric blues singer and harmonica player from Memphis, Texas. McFalls is attempting to revive the popularity which the blues enjoyed in his native Memphis during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.[1]
McFalls is known for his unique urban sound and his keen sense of humor as he attempts to make blues, sometimes defined as the "secular folk music of American blacks"[2] pertinent to modern society. Reared in a musical family, his father was in Ma Rainey's touring minstrel show. Among McFalls' recordings are "Leroy" and "Where Is Leroy?".
McFalls graduated from Memphis High School, and then studied music at nearby two-year Clarendon College, then Clarendon Junior College in Clarendon, the seat of Donley County, where he learned to play the upright bass and toured the college circuit as a guitarist. Later he moved to Los Angeles, where he spent a decade promoting his music and touring the California coast with a blues trio.[4]
In 1988, McFalls joined Ichiban Records at the invitation of a boyhood friend, the producer Gary B.B. Coleman. In 1990, his album, Be-Who?, remained on the Billboard chart for twenty-one weeks. His albums have been recorded with a small studio band. In novelty numbers, McFalls engages in bantering, including one comical exchange about the legitimacy of his children with his then wife, "Miss Lee".[5]
Through Coleman, McFalls met Johnny Rawls, and the pair started the "Blues Review" touring company which performed in the American South. Rufus Thomas, Tyrone Davis, and Johnnie Taylor joined the group. Rawls then asked McFalls to be an artist on his new label, Deep South Sound.[4]
Steve Leggett of Allmusic stated that McFalls "makes things work by the sheer force of his engaging personality."[6]
Early in 2008, McFalls was featured on a segment of Bob Phillips' syndicated television anthology series Texas Country Reporter. In the interview, McFalls explained to Phillips how important the legacy of Memphis, Texas, had been to his singing career and his peace of mind as a person.[7]
Little Sammy Davis *28.11.1928
Little Sammy Davis (born November 28, 1928) is an American blues musician based in New York's Hudson Valley. Although his musical career began in the 1940s, he was not widely known until the mid-1990s when he began working in radio, singing, playing live on tour, and recording studio albums.
Born in Winona, Mississippi, United States, and raised in a one-room shack, Davis learned to play the harmonica at the age of eight.[1] He eventually left home and settled in Florida, where he continued to play the blues in the Miami area while working in orange groves and saw mills to make ends meet.
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Davis traveled with medicine shows and played with blues musicians like Pine Top Perkins, and Ike Turner. He spent a total of nine years on the road with Earl Hooker, including with the short-lived band of Hooker, Ike Turner, Pine Top Perkins and Albert King,ending when the two titans of Blues Guitar came to blows,thus breaking up the band.Sammy and Earl recorded four sides for Rockin' Records in 1952 and 1953 (as Little Sam Davis).[2][3]
In the late 1950s, Davis lived in Chicago, Illinois, performing with Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed and occasionally fronting Little Walter's Band, The Aces when Walter did not show. At some point, word had let out that "some guy looks and plays" just like Walter and people THINK he IS Little Walter". One night as Sammy Performed on stage,Sammy spotted a Policeman at the back of the club, accompanied by Hooker. Walter and the officer waited for Sammy to get through with his set and when Sammy got off of the stage, he was arrested on the spot. To quote Sammy:" Walter was a good guy and told me that yes, you do indeed sound just like me but you can't be going around letting people think you ARE me". Sammy was locked up, spent a night in jail before Walter dropped the charges, leaving Davis and Walter friends for the rest of Walter's all too short and tragic life. He later married and settled in Poughkeepsie, New York, during which time he recorded a session for Trix Records that resulted in one "45" single. After the sudden death of his wife in 1970, Davis stopped playing and dropped out of the music scene for the next two decades. No one knew if Sammy was alive or even dead.
In 1990, local DJ Doug Price was getting a haircut at a barber shop in Poughkeepsie, NY when he heard rumors that Davis was sitting in at a Blues Jam at the " Side Tracked Inn". Price made mention of Davis's story and played some of his old recordings on WVKR.Then One night, Brad Scribner was hired to play drums at the Jam when Sammy got up to play and was amazed at what he saw and heard. Brad immediately came home to tell his brother Fred who had been supplying Blues Instrumentals for the Legendary Radio Shock Jock Don Imus and had been actively looking for a Singer to progress from background instrumentals to being a Featured Guest on Imus' Show. Fred Scribner arranged to bring [Little Sammy Davis and Midnight Slim into Tom Veneble's Recording Studio in Walden, NY to record a fresh batch of Material including the Classic Howlin' Wolf song, "Sitting On Top Of The World". Imus interviewed Sammy and Fred via telephone,Live and they were an instant hit and subsequently invited Davis and Scribner to perform on his show, Live in the Studio at WFAN,Radio,NY. The New York Daily News proclaimed the very next day:" Little Sammy Davis and Fred Scribner score on the Imus Show". Sammy and Fred started to appear regularly, soon earning the title of " House Band" for the Imus in the Morning Show for years to come. Imus, in his trademark style, later quipped that Davis had "more harmonicas than teeth" and that Fred looked like a manager of an Ace Hardware Store.[4]
Capitalizing on this Imus fame, Little Sammy Davis and Midnight Slim toured, playing the Best Blues Clubs, Colleges and Blues Festivals on the east coast and venturing out to the West Coast on occasion as radio and television stations( MSNBC ) around the United States joined on . In 1996 Davis released his first full-length album, I Ain't Lyin,with Fred Scribner Producing, Playing Guitar and co Writing, Brad Scribner on Drums, the late Brad Lee Sexton on Bass and Tom Hunter on Piano for Delmark Records.[5] The record was nominated for a W. C. Handy Award and earned Davis a "comeback artist of the year award" from Living Blues magazine. Davis and Scribner released a second album, Ten Years and Forty Days on their own Label, Fat Fritz Records. As "House Band " for the Imus Show, they were called in each fall for an annual Radio/Telethon for the " Tomorrows Children's Fund, benefiting children stricken with cancer. As the years went by, other charitable organizations came on board such as the S.I.D.S Foundation and finally, the Imus Ranch for children with terminal illnesses,ending their run when the World Trade Center was destroyed on 9/11,which shadowed over the " Winter Atrium" in the World Financial Center where these Radio/Telethons were held sharing the infamous "garage" where the deadly bomb exploded, allowing the band to escape the scene with only minutes to spare.
Around this time,a former Guitar Student of Scribner's, John Rocklin, brought Sammy up to see Legendary Drummer/Vocalist: Levon Helm. Levon seemed to fall in love with Sammy immediately. Davis began Performing with Levon Helm for performances at Helm's home in Woodstock and on tour with Levon Helm and the Barn Burners.In 2006 Sammy convinced Levon that His Guitarist, Fred Scribner would be the right choice on Guitar.Fred joined on and the name of the band became the Levon Helm Band and Levon started having Concerts at his home in Woodstock,NY leading to the release of : Midnight Ramble Volume 1.[6][7]
In 2002 Arlen Tarlofsky produced and directed a documentary entitled, "Little Sammy Davis". The movie is a musical documentary that looks into the life and music of Sammy Davis. The documentary was the Jury Selection at the London Film Festival and the Woodstock International Film Festival, and it won the Audience Recognition Award at The AFI/SILVERDOCS Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival.[citation needed]
In October 2008, after recording his third album, Travelin' Man' with Scribner, Davis suffered a stroke. He recovered, and was able to resume performing the following Spring. Since Sammy was no longer permitted to travel on the road anymore, Levon offered Sammy and Fred the Opening Act slot every Saturday at the " Midnight Ramble " but sadly Sammy suffered a second Stroke within a year and has since been left Partially paralyzed and currently residing in a nursing Home/rehab unit in Middletown,NY .
Neil Sadler *28.11.
Born: Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Date: 28/11/ ??
Status: Divorced
Music tastes: Blues-Jazz-RB-Rock
Favourite singers: Dusty Springfield, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding
Favourite blues artist: Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy
Favourite Jazz artist: Miles Davies, John Coltrane
Interests: Music, Art, Walking, Writing Music
Favourite Albums: Led Zep 1, Abraxas, Wish You Were Hear
Favourite rock bands: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd
Favourite Food: Indian
Favourite wine: Anything considered
Favourite woman: Nice ones
Favourite film: Bladerunner
Favourite hobby: Playing my guitar, Watching Football
Favourite likes: Music, Playing Live
Favourite hates: Big ego, no talent
History:
Started playing the guitar at fourteen, first band - Captain Galapagos and Sea Lizard.
Other Bands - Nightporter, Silva, Skeeta , Hazzard.
Some early success with a band called The Moonwalkers.
Signed to CBS records in the early eighties with a band called Sleeping Lions.
Date: 28/11/ ??
Status: Divorced
Music tastes: Blues-Jazz-RB-Rock
Favourite singers: Dusty Springfield, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding
Favourite blues artist: Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy
Favourite Jazz artist: Miles Davies, John Coltrane
Interests: Music, Art, Walking, Writing Music
Favourite Albums: Led Zep 1, Abraxas, Wish You Were Hear
Favourite rock bands: Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd
Favourite Food: Indian
Favourite wine: Anything considered
Favourite woman: Nice ones
Favourite film: Bladerunner
Favourite hobby: Playing my guitar, Watching Football
Favourite likes: Music, Playing Live
Favourite hates: Big ego, no talent
History:
Started playing the guitar at fourteen, first band - Captain Galapagos and Sea Lizard.
Other Bands - Nightporter, Silva, Skeeta , Hazzard.
Some early success with a band called The Moonwalkers.
Signed to CBS records in the early eighties with a band called Sleeping Lions.
The Eric Street Band - The Tallyman
The Eric Street Band are without doubt one of the best bands from Rock
Blues / to come in a very long time. "The Tallyman" that the band are in
Their element, melding harsh bottleneck slide with fuzz-box harmonica
distorted.
Dennis Siggery - vocal
Neil Sadler - lead guitar
Edward Stirling - bass
Nigal Pugh - sax, harp
Matt Edwards - drums
Dennis Siggery - vocal
Neil Sadler - lead guitar
Edward Stirling - bass
Nigal Pugh - sax, harp
Matt Edwards - drums
Ori Naftaly *28.11.1987
Diese Band ist im letzten Jahr gehörig durchgestartet: Nachdem das Debüt vor allem Bluesklassiker in frischen Interpretationen beinhaltete, kamen für die Ori Naftaly Band nicht nur Konzerte in ihrer israelischen Heimat. Auch durch die Niederlande tourte die Band um den Gitarristen Ori Naftaly und Sängerin/Songwriterin Eleanor Tsaig erfolgreich. Und bei der International Blues Challenge kam die Band als erste aus Isreal bis ins Halbfinale. „Happy For Good“ heißt das jetzt veröffentlichte zweite Album. Und es hat jedes Lob verdient.
Bei neuen Bands warte ich immer gespannt auf den Moment, wo sie den Weg vom Nachspielen der Klassiker zum eigenen Song finden. Für Ori Naftaly und Eleanor Tsaig dürfte der Weg nach Memphis der richtige Zeitpunkt gewesen sein, diesen Schritt zu wagen. Und er ist gelungen. Die Lieder auf dem zweiten Album stammen samt und sonders aus der eigenen Feder, Ori zeichnet meist für die Melodien verantwortlich und die Sängerin hat mit den Texten ihre ganz eigene weibliche Weltsicht in die klassischen Bluessounds eingebracht. Während der Titelsong einfach die großartigen Zeiten, die die Band in den letzten Monaten erlebt hat, auf den Punkt bringt, sind Lieder wie „Cheaper to keep her satisfied“ in ihrer humorvollen Art etwas Besonderes in den Liedern über den Beziehungsdschungel. Und wenn Ori dann (der einzige Text, der von ihm stammt) davon singt, einfach glücklich zu sein, wenn er allein in der Wüste seine Gitarre spielt, dann ist klar, dass dass eben Blues nicht aus den USA oder Europa ist sondern aus Israel. Das ist an der Musik sonst nicht zu hören: Was die Ori Naftaly Band spielt, ist seelenvoller, funkiger moderner Blues mit einer großartigen Sängerin, einer prägnanten Gitarre und feinen Hammondattacken zwischendurch. Und wer spricht da immer vom "schweren" zweiten Album?
Ori Naftaly is a 26 year old Israeli guitarist, composer and musical producer. At the age of 5, Ori started taking Guitar and music lessons. For years Naftaly studied guitar with different teachers from a wide range of music genres (Spanish, Classical, Jazz and Funk). Naftaly studied and graduated from Hadassim High Music Class at the age of 17, then immediately applied and was accepted to Rimon School of Jazz & Contemporary Music, for Arrangement and Composition studies. After two years, he started playing and recording with Israeli artists all over israel. Naftaly also studied Classical Guitar with the Israeli musician - Shlomo Yidov.
In 2011 Ori Naftaly started gathering his favorite blues musicians to start his own band - The Ori Naftaly Band. Since then, the band won awards around the world. The album was picked as the Best Blues Album in 2012 by Jan Marius Franzen from bluesmagazine.nl and radio show Purple Haze. In the German magazine - Wasser Prawda the album was picked #2 as Best Blues Debut, and on 88FM Tomer Molvidzon picked A True Friend (Is Hard to Find) as the best debut in israel. On October 2012 he won the local blues competition, and the Ori Naftaly Band was chosen as the Best Israeli Blues Band of 2013. In Memphis TN at the 29th IBC The Ori Naftaly Band made it to the Semi Finals and making history by both selling the largest amount of CD's in the competition and for reaching the Semi FInals. Their album "Happy For Good" was released in May 2013 and featured 8 new songs by the band. Ori Naftaly produced the album and composed most of the songs. The band has been touring the United States in 2013 and 2014, reaching over 30 states. In August 2014 their single "Do It To Ya" was released, and the new ONB album is to be released in 2015.
Bei neuen Bands warte ich immer gespannt auf den Moment, wo sie den Weg vom Nachspielen der Klassiker zum eigenen Song finden. Für Ori Naftaly und Eleanor Tsaig dürfte der Weg nach Memphis der richtige Zeitpunkt gewesen sein, diesen Schritt zu wagen. Und er ist gelungen. Die Lieder auf dem zweiten Album stammen samt und sonders aus der eigenen Feder, Ori zeichnet meist für die Melodien verantwortlich und die Sängerin hat mit den Texten ihre ganz eigene weibliche Weltsicht in die klassischen Bluessounds eingebracht. Während der Titelsong einfach die großartigen Zeiten, die die Band in den letzten Monaten erlebt hat, auf den Punkt bringt, sind Lieder wie „Cheaper to keep her satisfied“ in ihrer humorvollen Art etwas Besonderes in den Liedern über den Beziehungsdschungel. Und wenn Ori dann (der einzige Text, der von ihm stammt) davon singt, einfach glücklich zu sein, wenn er allein in der Wüste seine Gitarre spielt, dann ist klar, dass dass eben Blues nicht aus den USA oder Europa ist sondern aus Israel. Das ist an der Musik sonst nicht zu hören: Was die Ori Naftaly Band spielt, ist seelenvoller, funkiger moderner Blues mit einer großartigen Sängerin, einer prägnanten Gitarre und feinen Hammondattacken zwischendurch. Und wer spricht da immer vom "schweren" zweiten Album?
Ori Naftaly is a 26 year old Israeli guitarist, composer and musical producer. At the age of 5, Ori started taking Guitar and music lessons. For years Naftaly studied guitar with different teachers from a wide range of music genres (Spanish, Classical, Jazz and Funk). Naftaly studied and graduated from Hadassim High Music Class at the age of 17, then immediately applied and was accepted to Rimon School of Jazz & Contemporary Music, for Arrangement and Composition studies. After two years, he started playing and recording with Israeli artists all over israel. Naftaly also studied Classical Guitar with the Israeli musician - Shlomo Yidov.
In 2011 Ori Naftaly started gathering his favorite blues musicians to start his own band - The Ori Naftaly Band. Since then, the band won awards around the world. The album was picked as the Best Blues Album in 2012 by Jan Marius Franzen from bluesmagazine.nl and radio show Purple Haze. In the German magazine - Wasser Prawda the album was picked #2 as Best Blues Debut, and on 88FM Tomer Molvidzon picked A True Friend (Is Hard to Find) as the best debut in israel. On October 2012 he won the local blues competition, and the Ori Naftaly Band was chosen as the Best Israeli Blues Band of 2013. In Memphis TN at the 29th IBC The Ori Naftaly Band made it to the Semi Finals and making history by both selling the largest amount of CD's in the competition and for reaching the Semi FInals. Their album "Happy For Good" was released in May 2013 and featured 8 new songs by the band. Ori Naftaly produced the album and composed most of the songs. The band has been touring the United States in 2013 and 2014, reaching over 30 states. In August 2014 their single "Do It To Ya" was released, and the new ONB album is to be released in 2015.
Ori Naftaly Blues Band performs "Ball & Chain" at B.L.U.E.S. Chicago
Tim De Graeve aka Tiny Legs Tim *28.11.1978
Tiny Legs Tim (Tim De Graeve) ist auf dem besten Weg Belgiens Blues Musiker der Stunde zu werden. In den letzten Jahren ist er mit seiner One Man Blues Band fast durch ganz Europa getourt und war unter anderem Opener für Peter Doherty, John Mayall und Ian Siegal. Die belgische Blues Legende Roland van Campenhout schreibt über De Graeve: Seitdem der Blues aus den trüben Gewässern der amerikanischen Südstaaten kroch, hatten die Männer, die ihn verbreiteten, sehr spezielle Namen. Es gab den Blind Lemon, Sleepy John, Leadbelly und viele andere. Ihre 78 rpm Scheiben haben die Populärmusik weltweit geprägt und junge Musiker von London bis Singapur beeinflusst. In Belgien haben wir nun einen jungen Mann namens Tiny Legs Tim. Ausgestattet mit einer vom Großvater geerbten Gitarre, einer Stompbox und einem bottleneck hält er den Geist von Bukka White und Robert Johnson lebendig. Öffnen Sie sich und lassen Sie sich vom Zauber dieses ursprünglichen Blues ergreifen.
If the artist name Tiny Legs Tim reminds you of the bluesmen of old, then you’re immediately on the right track. Tiny Legs Tim (Tim De Graeve, °1978) is nicely on his way to become one of the Belgian blues musicians of the moment. The rambling old guitar of his grandfather, a bottleneck, a footstomp and the necessary scratches in body and soul ensure a personal style and endurance. After 6 years of inactivity because of illness, the blues he discovered as a child is more alive than ever.
The past few years, Tiny Legs Tim travelled with his One Man Blues Band through nearly the entire European continent, played the opening act for Peter Doherty, John Mayall and Ian Siegal, performed at many blues festivals and was invited last year by no-one less than Kurt Overbergh (Ancienne Belgique) to play during STOEMP v/d Chef.
Read what Roland van Campenhout has to tell about this young bluesman: “Ever since dah blues crawled out of the southern muddy waters, the men spreading the word had special names. We had a Blind Lemon, a Sleepy John, there was a giant human being called Leadbelly, and many more…. Their 78 rpm disk recordings went all over the globe, influencing popular music and young musicians from London to Singapore, From India to Africa… So now we have from Belgium a young man who names himself Tiny Legs Tim, and just with his six strings and a stomping foottapboard he brings back the ghost and magic from Bukka White and Robert Johnson. Sit back and let the ol’ magic take hold. Those tiny legs sure take a lot o’ burning blues around!”
Tiny-Legs Tim BluesFestival Haringe Belgium 10.11.2012 :)
Torsten "Red Fox" Rolfs *28.11.
http://www.redfoxbluesband.de/images/Presse/BandinfoZeitung11-2012.pdf
Im zarten Alter von 12 Jahren besuchte ich mein erstes Blueskonzert in meiner thüringischen Heimatstadt Eisenach. Neben all den Bluesern und Kunden (die mit den Shell- Parka) nahm ich mich recht bieder aus. Mit 14 bekam ich meine erste Harp von meiner Tante Klara aus dem Westen und von da an ging es los – mitjammen mit der Platte von Stefan Diestelmann, egal welche Tonart, die A- Harp passte immer…..(?????).
Nach Basszupfen in der Schulband der Abbe- Schule, sang ich als Student bei den Jena- Jubilee- Singers Gospels und Spirituals. Das half die Stimme zu vervollkommenen, vielen Dank an Norbert Kleekamp.
Selbst in Paris lieh ich meine Stimme einem kleinen Chor, dessen Repertoire aus französisch- getexteten Jazzklassikern und Latino- Hits bestand.
Aber erst in Osnabrück, wohin mich mein Studium verschlug, fand ich den reinen Blues und meinen Bluesjünger: Carsten Elmer. Mit ihm gemeinsam fand ich den Einzug ins gelobte Osnabrücker Bluesland. Mit den Bluesbusters kam der Red Fox erstmals auf die Bühne, mit den Shufflebones tanzten wir in den Mai in der Vitischanze. Im Pink- Piano lernte ich viel. Durch die Session im Louisiana mit Olaf Thielsch und Mike Bolmer kam die Organisationserfahrung („Wer baut heute das Schlagzeug auf?“).
Zum Glück gibt es in Bremen auch die Karo- Session Fullhouse Blues, bei der ich in der Hausband spiele.
Seit 2007 nun die Red Fox Bluesband…….
Nach Basszupfen in der Schulband der Abbe- Schule, sang ich als Student bei den Jena- Jubilee- Singers Gospels und Spirituals. Das half die Stimme zu vervollkommenen, vielen Dank an Norbert Kleekamp.
Selbst in Paris lieh ich meine Stimme einem kleinen Chor, dessen Repertoire aus französisch- getexteten Jazzklassikern und Latino- Hits bestand.
Aber erst in Osnabrück, wohin mich mein Studium verschlug, fand ich den reinen Blues und meinen Bluesjünger: Carsten Elmer. Mit ihm gemeinsam fand ich den Einzug ins gelobte Osnabrücker Bluesland. Mit den Bluesbusters kam der Red Fox erstmals auf die Bühne, mit den Shufflebones tanzten wir in den Mai in der Vitischanze. Im Pink- Piano lernte ich viel. Durch die Session im Louisiana mit Olaf Thielsch und Mike Bolmer kam die Organisationserfahrung („Wer baut heute das Schlagzeug auf?“).
Zum Glück gibt es in Bremen auch die Karo- Session Fullhouse Blues, bei der ich in der Hausband spiele.
Seit 2007 nun die Red Fox Bluesband…….
Lie To Me / Red Fox Bluesband 2013-10-26
German Blues Challenge / Awards Red Fox Bluesband Eutin 04.07.2015
R.I.P.
Papa George Lightfoot +28.11.1971
Papa Lightfoot, also known as Papa George Lightfoot (March 2, 1924 – November 28, 1971), born Alexander Lightfoot, was an American blues singer and harmonica player.
Born in Natchez, Mississippi, Lightfoot recorded several sessions in his late twenties – for Peacock Records in 1949 (which were never issued), Sultan Records in 1950, Aladdin Records in 1952, and Imperial Records in 1954. After final singles for Savoy Records in 1955 and Excello Records in 1956, Lightfoot quit recording, still an obscure Southern blues harmonica player.
As interest grew in rural Delta blues in the 1960s, Lightfoot's name became more well-known, and in 1969 record producer Steve LaVere went to Lightfoot's home town of Natchez, and asked him to record again. The result was the album Natchez Trace, released on Vault Records in 1969, which brought Lightfoot briefly to the forefront of the blues revival. Rural Blues Vol. 2 followed on Liberty Records later that same year.
However, his comeback was cut short by his death in late 1971 of respiratory failure.
The recordings were reissued in 1995 as Goin' Back to the Natchez Trace, with six additional tracks and recorded monologue.[1]
Dave „Snaker“ Ray (* 17. August 1943, St. Paul, Minnesota; † 28. November 2002 in Minneapolis) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluessänger und -Gitarrist, der vor allem durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit „Spider“ John Koerner und Tony „Little Sun“ Glover bekannt geworden ist.
In den 1960er Jahren sind die drei zunächst gemeinsam unter dem Namen Koerner, Ray & Glover aufgetreten und haben Schallplatten veröffentlicht, sind dann seit Anfang der 1970er Jahre z. T. eigene musikalische Wege gegangen.
In den 1960er Jahren sind die drei zunächst gemeinsam unter dem Namen Koerner, Ray & Glover aufgetreten und haben Schallplatten veröffentlicht, sind dann seit Anfang der 1970er Jahre z. T. eigene musikalische Wege gegangen.
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