Album:
Blues On The Outside
Size: 151,2 MB
Time: 65:32
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1999
Styles: Blues
Art: Full
1. The Grass Is Greener (4:42)
2. In Trouble (5:28)
3. I Know What You Want (5:13)
4. Walk Away Baby (4:47)
5. Dirty Little Toy (5:24)
6. Spinnng Wheel (4:04)
7. It Just Can Be Love (4:17)
8. Motorhead Baby (4:53)
9. More Hugs (1:52)
10. I Don't Wanna Be Your Nightmare (3:17)
11. Never Sell Your Soul (6:26)
12. Nine To Nine Blues (3:19)
13. Blues On The Outside (4:06)
14. No Matter Where (4:28)
15. Never Off With The Blues (3:09)
Born in Cabinda (Angola) on August 7, 1957, Nuno Mindelis became a guitar enthusiast at the very young age of 5 and by the age of 9 he began building and playing self-made guitars. A primary influence at that time was Otis Redding and his great rhythm section Booker T. & The MG’s - made up of Booker T., Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn, and Al Jackson. Nuno continues to enjoy the work of these musicians to this day. Because of a civil war, which made Nuno lose everything he had, he was forced to leave his country as an exiled at the age of seventeen. He joined an older cousin in Canada and remained there for about a year, jamming where possible and increasing his guitar knowledge. In 1976, following a year of separation from his family, he decided to rejoin them in their newfound home of Brazil.
Nothing eventful happened until 1990, when an independent recording he had made there began to receive airplay on local radio stations. In 1991 he was invited to record his debut solo album, “Blues & Derivados”, which received very positive reviews in Brazilian media. He recorded his second solo album, “Long Distance Blues”, for Movieplay Records joined by Larry McCray and French harp player J.J. Milteau, considered as the best Harp Player in France and one of the most important in Europe. The album received rave reviews from Brazilian media, and as part of his promotional tour for the album Nuno was fortunate to gain a spot in a blues festival in Sao Paulo featuring Robert Cray, Otis Clay, Ronnie Earl, Lonnie Brooks, and Bo Diddley.
First known recognition by a major American music magazine came in 1994 when “Guitar Player Magazine” profiled Nuno in an issue. In the article, Jas Obrecht (the editor at the time) compared Nuno to Jimmy Page. Further recognition came in their May 1998 issue, as Nuno was selected as “Best Blues Guitarist” in the 30th Anniversary Guitar Player Magazine Competition. In 1995 Nuno was invited to play at Antone’s 20th Anniversary in Austin, Texas, opening for Guy Forsyth, Junior Wells, and others. Clarence Gatemouth Brown and Storyville also performed at this event. The headlines of the Austin Blues newspaper warned of Nuno’s forthcoming visit as “The South American Beast is coming!”. Later that year Nuno would record his album “Texas Bound”, featuring newly made friends Tommy Shannon & Chris Layton - Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section supreme “Double Trouble”.
With this album Nuno gained audiences in the entire world from Brasil to the US and Europe. “Texas Bound” came to be the 12th top seller in Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxemburg) sharing the shelfs with the world’s biggest blues names like B.B. King, Robert Cray and Buddy Guy. In 1999 Nuno released “Blues On The Outside”, again with double Trouble and toured with this superb rhythm section to release the album which again recieved rave reviews from the media. Blues on The Outside’s first track (The Grass Is Greener) was the top chart in all Internet blues radio stations according to Live 365 (24 hours radio monitoring). A canadian promoter and record company executive heard the record and invited Nuno for the 25th edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2001, followed by other presentations in Quebec, Ottawa.
(For personnel details, see artwork included.)
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