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JULIAN JAMES (Melbourne)
SEPTEMBER 1 Tix $22 - Click to purchase Doors 1pm music starts 2pm You can hear Julian here Still in his twenties, Julian James has spent most of his adult life on the road, first as front man of Blues festival heroes ‘Catfish Voodoo’ and on his own. ‘Silver Spades’ is the second album in his catalogue as a solo artist and Julian brings the experience of a seasoned performer and a fresh perspective to this set of traditional songs by artists like Ma Rainey and early Muddy Waters, as well as originals like the title track Silver Spade. Tales of love, loss and debauchery from 2018 sit happily with their ancestors from the 1930’s as James deliver his laconic vintage drawl from some porch or other. Says Julian of his love of old blues: “Catfish Voodoo played straight Chicago Blues, so I started with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Willie Dixon; and then when I went out solo, I just kept going back in time and discovering people like Mississippi John Hurt, Leadbelly, Son House and knew that’s what I wanted to do.” |
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IVAN APPELROUTH (USA)
OCTOBER 6 Tix $28 - Click to purchase Doors 1pm music starts 2pm You can hear Ivan here An afternoon of the blues and ragtime guitar stylings of MS John Hurt, Blind Blake, Rev. Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson, and the greats and obscure of the Eastern Piedmont, Mississippi Delta, and cotton fields of the Deep South. "...a player in complete control of the blues idiom." Vintage Guitar Magazine Having grown up exposed to southern airwaves and later spending significant time immersed in the blues rich environment of New England, Ivan Appelrouth has played guitar alongside and/or recorded with a span of many generations of the renown of the world of blues, from Earl King to Mick Fleetwood, experience leading up to the 2011 EllerSoul Records release of Blue And Instrumental, his debut recording under his own name that ironically garnered him a Blues Blast Magazine nomination for "Best New Artist." Not afraid of new artistic challenges or to pursue new musical and personal goals and passions, Ivan has since 2015, been bringing his long-time love of acoustic fingerstyle blues and ragtime guitar to the live stage promising a musical event featuring the music of the greats and lesser known of the genre and a performance of the early blues traditions of the Mississippi Delta, the Eastern Piedmont, and the cottonfields of the Deep South. |
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