Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 31:58
Size: 73.2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2017
Art: Front
[2:41] 1. Here For You
[2:33] 2. Les Paul As A Young Man
[2:54] 3. Flowers In The Rain
[3:54] 4. He Rose
[2:33] 5. A Western View
[3:36] 6. Soft Hoover
[3:31] 7. Cold White Night
[3:12] 8. Mountside Sue
[2:45] 9. Yea, I’m Lazy
[4:14] 10. Dalalai
DAVE LINDHOLM calls himself a "blues-ukko" these days, but he's been called a lot of names by other people ever since he started his professional career in his late teens in the late sixties. He's been called "a Finnish Bob Dylan" because some of his colourful early songs just might have been slightly influenced by ol' Robert. He's been called "a Finnish Hendrix" - only because he once went to see one Hendrix movie every night for a week, although he's recorded just one song where he sounds a wee bit like Jimi. He's been called an idiot, a motormouth, a rapier wit, a tender balladeer (listen to "Aino" and that string quartet), a merciless avenger (although he just lurves his guitars), a heartbreaker, a daddio, an Italian... you name it, he's IT. His Finnish nickname "Isokynä" (Great Pen) perhaps tells something about his talent with words.
A born chameleon, this Helsinki-born prodigal son has been alternating Finnish and English as his language, switching between a solo career and bands with names like Ferris Wheel, Rock'n' Roll Band, Pen Lee, Bluesounds, RunRuns, 12 Bar, White Midnight and his latest trio Canpaza Gypsys. (Not forgetting his stints with The Leningrad Cowboys and his acoustic duo with guitar master Antero Jakoila or endless jamming with anybody, be they jazz or country.)
Amazingly Dave has been quite content to rule the roost in Finland only, with occasional jaunts abroad, often incognito, alas. October 1988, however, saw him entering an Austin, Texas recording studio, renewing his acquaintance of that musical hub and its rootsy people. The result was one of his most "down home" albums, featuring his inimitable fusion of all things American, with a firm blues base, of course, and a lil' dab of what we call "cuntry" music. "José Blues" was the album, with former Bobby Bland sideman Mel Brown on keyboards, former Omar & The Howlers sticksman Wes Starr doing the laying-back percussively, former Geoff Muldaur bass-person Sarah Brown adding that Antone's pulse, up-and-coming country songbird Kimmie Rhodes and Maryann Price (who has recorded with Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks and toured with The Kinks) backing him up vocally and violin wizard Erik Hokkanen celebrating his Finnish-American heritage with some tasty licks. There's also Joe Morales blowing some mean horn and Alan Haynes stepping in to swap lead guitar parts with Dave.
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