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Legendary Blues-man Colin Linden to play Soprano's - January 29th
| Message Board > Up n' Coming! (aka Shameless Promotion) > Legendary Blues-man Colin Linden to play Soprano's - January 29th |
| vichockeyfan User Info... |  Colin Linden Biography (2006 - Easin' Back To Tennessee) Colin Linden wears more hats than you’d find at a Royal wedding, and we’re not just talking about the trademark big black hat he favours on and offstage. This musical renaissance man is indeed a multiple threat - as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He is in major demand by artists wanting him to produce, write for, and/or play on their records (he has played on 300 and produced 60 albums), yet somehow finds time to both pursue a prolific solo career and play a key role in Canadian roots-rock “supergroup” Blackie and the Rodeo Kings. If forced at the proverbial gunpoint to come up with just one self-defining phrase, chances are he’d come up with“bluesman.” The form that first stirred Colin’s musical soul nearly four decades ago sustains him still. easin’back to tennessee, his tenth solo album, represents the fullest consummation of a lifelong love affair. “I’ve been playing country blues, ‘20s style acoustic blues, since I was a really little kid,” the 45-year-old Linden explains. “When I was 11, I met [electric blues pioneer] Howlin’ Wolf. One of the things he said to me that really got me onto this path was that ‘if you want to play this kind of music you should listen to the people I listened to.’ He told me about Charlie Patton and Son House and that generation of artists. That was like opening the biggest door in the world for me, so I just dug in deep. I listened to it and have been playing it seriously for 32 years now.” Colin’s thorough and committed exploration of the blues is, he explains, “at the core of everything I do. If I’m playing guitar on a Lee Ann Womack record or playing with Bruce Cockburn, I’m still thinking of Son House and Charlie Patton and Blind Blake. That is the foundation, the deepest root for everything that I do.” - Mon, 19 Jan 2009 5:26pm | ||
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