Time: 45:06
Size: 103.3 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues, Country blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front
[3:15] 1. Louise
[1:56] 2. The Viper Song
[1:59] 3. Great Dreams From Heaven
[3:19] 4. Motherless Children
[2:05] 5. In The Jailhouse Now
[3:15] 6. I'm Going To Sit Down On The Banks Of The River
[2:30] 7. Built Right On The Ground
[1:20] 8. Struttin'
[4:10] 9. May You Never
[4:42] 10. Hard Time Killing Floor
[2:57] 11. I Got To Move
[3:10] 12. Willie's Lonesome Blues
[2:09] 13. Don't Sell It, Don't Give It Away
[2:23] 14. What's The Use
[3:23] 15. Divin' Duck Blues
[2:25] 16. Money Is King
Geographically, South Germany is not exactly a prime launching strip for an international career as a country bluesman as, lets say, Mississippi or Chicago. Ironically, getting gigs for a country blues musician in Europe is probably easier than in the USA nowadays, as the blues is still well respected and even revered all over Europe and there is a loyal and dedicated German fan base. Nonetheless, this musician is not just among the best in Europe, but he’s top of the A-list internationally, deserving of wider recognition and awareness. If you are a fan of the acoustic blues and you don’t know Willie Salomon, you are missing out because he is an extraordinarily rich acoustic blues voice and has been for 30 year plus. It’s time to give this amazing player his due!
Willie Salomon is a German-American who resides in Germany, essentially a German with American roots. His English is native without accent, which helps in international acceptance, as blues fans are sometimes unfairly hard on excellent foreign musicians just because they can’t master accent free English.
Willie Salomon carries a beautifully wide repertoire spanning the entire spectrum and styles of pre-war blues and he can take you from Piedmont to Mississippi Delta, from Betonia to Ragtime to early jazz, seemingly able to master any instrument he touches with amazing musicianship. He carries a true passion and burning love for the music and that comes through note for note. Willie Salomon plays it hot, with feeling and sensitivity, with just the right playfulness and joy to make us remember that the blues is a celebratory music, which always carried an undercurrent of pain. Sometimes people fail to get the essence of the music, even if they mimic it well, because they don’t fully understand the core this feeling. That word “authentic” is often misused to imply “sounds like it used to way back when”. Often it “sounds like” but just does not “feel like” the deep blues. Willie Salomon has achieved both—mastering the musicianship and carrying on the truehearted feeling of the old time blues. That’s more than merely emulating, it is an intrinsic connection with the core feeling of the music.
Willie Salomon is a German-American who resides in Germany, essentially a German with American roots. His English is native without accent, which helps in international acceptance, as blues fans are sometimes unfairly hard on excellent foreign musicians just because they can’t master accent free English.
Willie Salomon carries a beautifully wide repertoire spanning the entire spectrum and styles of pre-war blues and he can take you from Piedmont to Mississippi Delta, from Betonia to Ragtime to early jazz, seemingly able to master any instrument he touches with amazing musicianship. He carries a true passion and burning love for the music and that comes through note for note. Willie Salomon plays it hot, with feeling and sensitivity, with just the right playfulness and joy to make us remember that the blues is a celebratory music, which always carried an undercurrent of pain. Sometimes people fail to get the essence of the music, even if they mimic it well, because they don’t fully understand the core this feeling. That word “authentic” is often misused to imply “sounds like it used to way back when”. Often it “sounds like” but just does not “feel like” the deep blues. Willie Salomon has achieved both—mastering the musicianship and carrying on the truehearted feeling of the old time blues. That’s more than merely emulating, it is an intrinsic connection with the core feeling of the music.
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