Walter Trout Band
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Welcome (Back) To The Jungle
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Life In The Jungle is the new, edgy blues release from the Walter Trout Band, featuring Trout on guitar, Vocals and harmonica. Here's a guy with eleven solo albums to his credit, has played lead guitar with Canned Heat, yet is stangely unknown in the United States.The 10 song CD would be worth checking out for the ripping guitar solos alone (how about the brief, but fiery guitar solo "Spacefish"), but Trout proves to be an emotionally charged vocalist (hint, check out "The Mountain Song"), an uncompromising songwriter and ultra-tasty guitar player overall. Rounding out the band are Jim Trapp on bass, Leroy Larson on drums and Dan Abrams on Hammond B3 and grand piano. Not just a bunch of studio cats, the group includes a hard hitting, nine minute live cover of Jimi Hendrix' "Red House". If you are into supercharged contemporary bluesmen such as Pat Travers, Rick Derringer or Kevin Russell, you'll love Life In The Jungle - a great exmaple of meaty blues fueled with swaggering rock attitude.
A long-time Orange County, California resident, Walter was voted the sixth greatest guitarist of al time in a 1993 BBC radio poll, and is a 2001 winner of the Los Angeles Music Awards Guitarist Of The Year title. Like a lot of artists, he struggled mightily at first trying to get his career rolling, when in 1990, a ballad he wrote bacame a top 20 hit single. Later, Walter was able to play large venues in countries such as Denmark and Sweden, becoming immensely popular on the European continent. When returning to the United States however, he had to start all over; selling 20-30 tickets a show to finally selling out clubs. In 2001, his album "Go The Distance" debuted at No. 12 in the Billboard (Magazine) blues chart.
Trout continues to tour heavily behind each one of his new releases, frequenting the country's House Of Blues and Buddy Guy's Legends venues, as well as smaller clubs, such as the Minnesota Music Cafe in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Contact Information
Doug Deutsch Publicity Services
1443 Seward St.
Hollywood, CA 90028
United States
E-mail:
Walter Trout Band
Web site:
www.rufrecords.com
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Jahmings Maccow & E-Rif
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Reggae Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter
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Anguillian reggae musician Jahmings Maccow has recently released his twelve song CD entitled New Way. Maccow handles the rhythm. lead and acoustic guitars on the project, as well as lead vocals, keyboards and drum programming. He is joined on the CD by Paul Henton (bass, keyboards), Cesar Garcia (sax) and Michael Bolger (trumpet), among others. Unlike a lot of reggae musicians, Maccow is not shy about putting lead guitar breaks in his songs - he unleashes a raw, unpredictable sonic blast of overdriven/distorted guitar filled with trills and hammers on a good number of cuts, including the title track. Of course the arrangements feature the piano work and horn sections common to a great deal of reggae music, however the intemperate rawness of Maccow's solos give the music an edge not normally heard. The music on the New Way CD was recorded over a period of thirteen to fifteen months - from the winter of 1997 to the spring of 1999.
Born on the island of Anguilla, Jahmings started out singing with his school choir and playing the harmonica. Later in life, he would relocate to New York City, where his guitar playing caught the attention of reggae musician Henton, and they put together a band called Rhythm Dimensions. In 1984, Jahmings put together a group called the Enforcers, who did studio work for artists such as Max Romeo and Sugar Minott. From 1988 to 1990, he attended the Dick Grove Music School to continue his musical education. During that time he signed a songwriting contract with Sunrise Records, and wrote a single for Buddy Raye entitled "Yesterday" that was featured on the album "Hollywood Sessions".
Maccow is now busy promoting New Way, looking to acquire reviews and other press for the album.
Contact Information
Jahmings Maccow
C/O Rebels Production
10153 1/2 Riverside Drive
Toluca Lake, CA 91602
United States
E-mail:
Jahmings Maccow & E-Rif
Web site:
www.rebelsproduction.com
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