Issue #8 VICIOUS STEEL Post Down Home Blues Camp set between North Mississippi Hills Country and Louisiana Bayou, Vicious Steel cheerfully unload crates of moonshine from the back of their ute. Feels like the sizzle of bacon in a log cabin, with hot sauce on top. The Music is at the crossroad between Old Blues, Rock and Folk song. «Trash Blues Deluxe» on stage! Management Virgule Prod: +33 (6) 30 46 63 71 [email protected] www.virguleprod.com We have the pleasure to present a selection of French bands ONA IDE B F 10 and We, Bona Fide, spreading our Blues Rock most of the time in our area, Paris, solos/duos south of Paris and the rest of France since 2004. Our preference goes to the south Texas blues to the sound of a good cold beer Some have already recorded or toured in North America poured into a glass... plus of course our own tunes! and European countries, some have even represented If you want to listen to some of our creations or see our faces it’s on Facebook. France at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis or Christian Chambord: +33 (6) 63 74 64 10 [email protected] been programmed at the Chicago Blues Festival. Others are Philippe Leroux: +33 (6) 17 06 66 62 [email protected] emerging talents recognized by the French media. www.facebook.com/bonafidetheband www.facebook.com/christian.chambord.52 They could all be an opportunity for your clubs and festivals. As a go-between for the French Blues community, we would be very grateful if you’d let us know if you decide to play their cds on your radios, review their cds or program them live for your events. BIG FAT PAPA’Z France Blues, member of the European Blues Union and BIG FAT PAPA’Z is above all a very distinctive voice, an energy Blues Foundation, is a platform to exchange and support and a unique power mingling with the efficiency of a power trio. the international recognition and development of the French But also concerts with strong beats, interspersed with beautiful slows and white-hot solos in combining electric and acoustic set. Blues community in the world. The mix of soul and 70’s rock gives a new identity to their music. BIG FAT PAPA’Z already openned for international artists such Certains de ces artistes français ont enregistré ou tourné en as: Winston McAnnuff - Eric Sardinas & Big Motor - King King - Amérique du Nord et en Europe. certains ont représenté la Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind - Donald Kinsey Blues Band - Greg Koch - Jeff Hershey and the Heartbeats... France à l’International Blues Challenge de Memphis, ont pu être programmés au Chicago Blues Festival. D’autres sont les talents Tel: +33 (6) 16 93 16 74 [email protected] www.bigfatpapaz.com www.facebook.com/bigfatpapaz émergeants, repérés en France par les media. Pour vous clubs et festivals, ils représentent une opportunité. Intervenant comme facilitateurs pour la communauté blues français, nous vous remercions de nous faire savoir, si vous décidez de passer leurs CDs à l’antenne, chroniquez leurs albums ou si vous les retenez pour une programmation. ONE EE & HE LUNGHUNTERS B T T S Membre de l’European Blues Union et de la Blues Foundation We spent the last five years sharing our time between hitting the road and composing. The result was «The new antique sound of Bone Tee américaine, France Blues est la plateforme d’échange et de and The Slughunters» in 2012 and «One foot in the roots» in 2014. The promotion pour la reconnaissance internationale des acteurs de first album explored the urban Chicago era and gave us the opportunity ce genre musical en France. for an endless warming-up tour all around France. The «One foot in the roots» period was devoted to a birth-of-rock’n’roll- oriented sound, also including some authentic New orleans’ juke-joint flavours. We’ve been writing new songs for the last few months, and our next album should be released in June 2016. This time, we’ve decided to get into early swing, jump and rockin’blues. Our shows are well balanced, Tel France / Laurent: 06 81 65 72 85 trendy and wild, a real gumbo of «vintage modernity» where we sing Tel Europe / Guillaume: +33 (6) 29 416 814 every language of the blues. [email protected] www.boneteetheslughunters.com France Blues - Site: www.franceblues.com - email: [email protected] NASSER BEN DADOO RED MEDOC Hat Man Session Bordeaux’s band, created in the early 2000s, which has now found its maturity and its balance. With musicians having the same faith Since 2014, we produced the project Hat Man Session in this beautiful music, and a lot of pleasure to make it alive, fed lead by Nasser Ben Dadoo. After a first album «Blues from by the great old bluesmen and by their standards. In 2014, we roots», with an authentic, profound and timeless blues received the two first prices in Cahors Blues Festival and participa- sonority, and more than 250 gigs, we are back with a new ted at the 24 hours of swing in Monségur... striking album. This new opus, «Dog N ’Wolf», is mixing In 2015, our first album « Teacher of life » was released, 11 revisited inventive and dynamizing compositions and arrangements. old titles and one compostion. It received a good welcome (see Blues In 2015, the band received the So Blues Prize at the «RDV Magazine n°79 : « A big work of preparation and fine-tuning.... de l’Erdre» and the Revelation Prize at «Tremplin Blues sur which gives us a good Blues record... Joyful and homogeneous Seine». group....Band to be followed»). «His inspired music, full of groove and swing, rhythmic We are preparing a new album of 12 compositions, for the end of breaks and frequent improvisation, is played with the sin- 2016, strong and varied texts, contrasted atmospheres, asserting cerity and jubilation of his love of the Blues. The group’s our own musical evolution and appropriation of the blues music. Tel: +33 (6) 14 71 00 85 [email protected] singularity comes from their use of the Blues as an antidote We play regularly to share our music with audience, offer some facebook.com/pages/Les-Red-Medoc/368566833224508 to the gloom of the life that surrounds us». pleasure, notes and words... Blues... in short! Arnaud Amat: [email protected] www.hatman-session.com MATCHBOX BLUES BAND JACKEZ AND THE JACKS French quartet native from Tours, MATCHBOX Blues Band claims Jakez and the Jacks was formed in Nantes, France, in September to play authentic blues, electric as well as acoustic. 2015, around a table with a few beers in a smoky room. After two albums of great blues standards covers, MBB choosed Jakez sharpened his Stratocaster in Chicago, playing on the B.L.U.E.S, to present their own original materials with their third CD «Last Kingston Mines and the Buddy Guy’s Legend stages. Plane To Memphis» and with the last one «Still Here» (both of Buddy will eventually say about him: «that young guy can play some them very well received by the music press): the band sculpts a really good shit!». rich landscape with varied atmospheres where modern electric Back in Nantes with his friend Thomas Allain, they decide to put up sonorities are mixed with roots of acoustic blues… their own Chicago Blues band. Thomas is a young blues harp player, MBB is Julien (guitar and vocals), Matthieu (keyboards and crazy about the notes of Jimmy Reed, Carey Bell or Brian Jones on percussions), Jean-Yves (bass) and Alex (drums). the first Rolling Stones records. And he only wants to get in there Their show puts you, as guitars change, right into atmospheres of and play. juke joints of Mississippi’s delta with cigar-boxes and dobros, and They then meet Julien Dubois and Hugo Deviers, a rock solid rhythm in Chicago’s blues clubs with the famous 335 Gibson. section who already rocked many french and international stages They performed live in clubs and on stages of jazz and blues Jean-Yves: Tel: +33 (6) 82 05 08 40 behind American bluesmen during their European tours. The voice is festivals, and take at least as much pleasure that they give to their [email protected] warm, the guitar like is a razor and the band is explosive. Welcome audience… and it shows in every note! www.matchboxbluesband.com to Wabash Avenue. www.facebook.com/MatchboxBluesBand Hugo Deviers: +33 (6) 34 16 78 84 [email protected] www.youtube.com/user/MatchboxBluesBand Thomas Allain: +33 6 75 40 62 17 [email protected] [email protected] www.facebook.com/jakezandthejacks ROD BARTHET That now made about twenty years that Rod Barthet is on the LAUDE «BLUES DUSTER» OHNKÉ roads to go to play under his name Rod Barthet Trio or with Rod C B & The Shotgun Blues. Rod has played about 1700 shows so far, 66 years old, he plays guitar, harp, bass and sing. Present a radio and is average mileage is approximately 25,000 yearly on tours program from 1983 to 1986 devoted to the blues with friends Pierre around France, Germany, Mexico, the United States, Switzerland, Avocat (Founder of the Fine Resophonic guitars with Mike Lewis) and Macedonia, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Slovakia, Portugal. Pascal Pavy (BWC, Besançon Blues band). He was selected for the Shows : Opened for John Lee Hooker San Francisco (U.S.A), for Soulbag Contest in 1990. From 1990 to 1993, he toured with his band: Jimmy Johnson Vesoul (F) with Alvin Lee & Mick Taylor Athènes The Blues Dusters in Franche-Comté (France).