Hans Theessink - Pay Day - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

HANS THEESSINK InchHARD ROAD BLUESInch 1994 Blue Groove BG-6020, produced by Hans Theessink Even though I like all sorts of roots music, my first love is the acoustic blues as created in the last century. As a boy I remember hearing Big Bill Broonzy for the first time on late night radio. I was totally taken by the emotional richness and the sound of one person singing and playing guitar at the same time. To me that's sort of my musical base. My song 'Big Bill's Guitar' is a keysong for me that I tend perform at all my solo concerts. 'HARD ROAD BLUES' is my first recording of this basic blues form one man - one guitar. Enjoy, Hans Theessink This sparse guitar-and-voice production is immediately engaging. Theessink plays with a strong groove and excellent tone and sings in a deep, resonant voice. A majority of the songs are originals that show his love of traditional blues forms. This recording deserves a spot in the stores next to the work of the men who inspired it. (James Jensen, Acoustic Guitar, CD hit list, USA, 1997) Theessink is a formidable slide guitarist - check him out! (Kenneth Johnson, The Charlotte Observer, August 97) The arrangements are sparse but very rich in dynamics and highlights his emotional directness and superb phrasing in both his guitar playing and vocal delivery. Theessink has a total grasp on the loping, pulsing rhythm that propels classic Delta blues music. Songwriting craftsmanship is amply displayed in InchBig Bill's GuitarInch, where bittersweet reminiscences of life events linked to distant experiences of Big Bill Broonzy are artfully fit over a traditional blues framework. (Andy Allen, Dirty Linen, USA, July 96) Let one more myth die quickly; you don't have to be American to play the blues. Hans Theessink is in that select group of artists such as John Hammond, Paul Geremia and Rory Block, whom all share the responsibility for preser

A brand new solo acoustic roots-blues-Americana album from Hans The essink. After 7,000 concerts, two dozen albums and more than 40 years 'on the road', Hans is ready with a new solo album. In Wishing Well The essink digs deep into the treasure of American homespun music, and comes up with some wonderful new interpretations of traditional songs, together with strong original compositions and personal favorites by Bob Dylan, Brownie McGhee and Townes van Zandt. He is a master when it comes to making songs his own even the familiar classics end up sounding like typical The essink-music. With his warm baritone and exquisite work on a variety of stringed instruments, Hans creates a laid back hypnotic groove and draws his audience into a rare and intimate listening experience. Album Tracks 1. New Home Upon the Hill 2. Wishing Well 3. Wayfaring Stranger 4. Take Your Picture 5. Snowing on Raton 6. Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor 7. Alberta Let Your Hair Hang Down Low 8. Living with the Blues 9. Hellbound 10. Kathmandu 11. Delia 12. Ballad of Hollis Brown 13. Didn't We Try 14. Early This Morning Blues

Blues & Roots from a european master with the help of Garth Hudson, Rick Danko and Richard Bell (The Band); Maceo Parker, PeeWee Ellis & Fred Wesley; Bobby King & Terry Evans; Morris Goldberg; Colin Linden and Jon Sass whose tuba lays down the bass lines. Album Tracks 1. Late Last Night 2. Call Me 3. Mabellene 4. Lonely Days & Lonely Nights 5. Soul of Song 6. Aint Got No Home 7. Rock the Boat 8. New Orleans 9. The Planet 10. Bluesdoctor 11. Cuckoo 12. Sail on