Bryan Lee & The Blues Power Band
Batauwe 20.30-22.00 uur.
(foto Leo Gabriëls)
In de jaren 80 en 90 was voor de blues liefhebbers de enige zekerheid om een echte bluesband te zien in New Orleans in Old Absinthe House in de Bourbon Street.
Daar speelden Bryan Lee en zijn Jumpstreet Five band.
Op 16 maart 1943 zag Bryan Lee het licht in de plaats Tow Rivers, Wisconsin. Op achtjarige leeftijd werd hij blind.
In Nasville zond WLAC-AM radiostation in de jaren 50 muziek uit, hierdoor kwam hij voor het eerst met de blues in aanraking. Naast muziek van de drie Kings, hoorde hij ook Elmore James, en T-Bone Walker voorbij komen bij het radiostation.
In zijn late tienerjaren speelde hij in de regionale cover band The Glaciers, die nummers speelde van Elvis Presley, Little Richard en Chuck Berry. In de jaren zestig kwam zijn belangstelling voor de Chicago blues en speelde hij in de clubs in het middenwesten van Amerika. Dankzij de erge kou, die daar heerste, verhuisde hij in januari 1982 definitief naar New Orleans, waar hij veertien jaar lang, vijf dagen per week in verschillende clubs van New Orleans speelde!
In 1991 debuteerde hij met het album "The Blues Is" op het Justin Time label, waar hij nog steeds aan verbonden is.
Zijn laatste cd "Katrina Was Her Name" uit 2007, werd geproduceerd door Duke Robillard, hij speelt op twee nummers mee, terwijl Doug James op bariton en tenor sax en "sax" Gordon Beadle op tenor sax driftig meeblazen.
Het album is een aanrader voor de cd kast
Bryan Lee trad voor de laatste keer op in ons land tijdens het legendarische Amsterdam Bluesfestival in de Meervaart op vrijdag 18 maart 1994!
De stichting Betuws Blues & Jazz promotie is trots, dat na 15 jaar Bryan Lee weer terug is in Nederland voor slechts enkele concerten, waaronder Tiel.
Line Up:
Bryan Lee - zang, gitaar
Enrico "Henry" Carpaneto, keyboard
John Peter Perkins, drums
Richard Alvah "Dr. Porkchop" Ward, basgitaar
Discografie:
Katrina Was Here.
Live and Dangerous (ook als dvd)
Six String Therapy
Crawfish lady
Live At The Old Absinthe Bar
DVD.
Live & Dangerous
Website:
www.braillebluesdaddy.com
Download MP3
Brian Lee - Blues Singer
Aankondiger: Henk Demper
Stagemanager: Jeroen van Veeren
Geluid: Atlantic Productions
English version
During the '80s and ‘90s, the only blues band that visitors to New Orleans would hear was Bryan Lee's Jump Street Five Band at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street. Blues veteran Bryan Lee, blind since childhood, became a true New Orleans blues institution and kept on delivering his own fiery brand of blues power long after the Old Absinthe House was gone. This was a gig that went a long way to establish New Orleans as a blues town despite the fact that Lee's style never really departed from his mid-west demeanor, making him the most Chicago-sounding band on the strip.
Born in 1943 on March 16, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Lee lost his eyesight at the age of eight. His avid interest in early rock and blues was fostered through the 1950s with late night listening sessions via the Nashville-based radio station WLAC-AM, where he first encountered the sounds of the three Kings, Elmore James, T-Bone Walker and other influential bluesmen. By his late teens, he was playing rhythm guitar in a regional band called The Glaciers that covered Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry material. Through the ‘60s, Lee's interest turned to Chicago blues and he soon found himself gigging in blues clubs throughout the Midwest. In January of 1982 (in the midst of a particularly cold Wisconsin winter), Lee relocated to New Orleans and for the next 14 years held down a steady gig playing five nights a week at the Old Absinthe House in the heart of the French Quarter. He subsequently went to the Opera House and 544 Club and remains one of the most crowd-pleasing acts on Bourbon Street to this day. Lee debuted on Justin Time in 1991 with The Blues Is and has since released a string of powerful outings on the label, including 1993's Memphis Bound, 1995's Braille Blues Daddy, 1997's Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar and 2000's Crawfish Lady. His dynamic Blues Power Band was captured in concert at The Spectrum in Montreal on the recent Justin Time DVD, Live & Dangerous.
Today Bryan Lee is going stronger than ever, touring across the US, Canada and Europe playing the blues with his Blues Power Band as well as guesting on other artists' shows. In March 2007 Lee took part in highly successful whirlwind legends' tour featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd's blues documentary 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads, with his hit song "Tina Marie." As Bryan puts it, this collaboration granted him "the distinct honor and pleasure" of being on stage with Pine Top Perkins, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Flett, and Willie Big Eye Smith. As the 2007 festival season unfolds, Bryan is primed and ready to take his own band on tour in the wake of his latest Justin Time release, Katrina Was Her Name, produced by guitar great Duke Robillard.
Line Up:
Bryan Lee, vocals, guitar
John Lisi, guitar, vocals
John Peter Perkins, drums
Richard Alvah "Dr. Porkchop" Ward, bass guitar
Discografie:
Katrina was here.
Live and Dangerous (ook als dvd)
Six String Therapy
Crawfish lady
Live At The Old Absinthe Bar
DVD.
Live & Dangerous
Website:
www.braillebluesdaddy.com
Download MP3
Brian Lee - Blues Singer
Announcer: Henk Demper
Stagemanager: Jeroen van Veeren
Sound: Atlantic Productions
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