Time: 30:41
Size: 70.3 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front
[1:18] 1. Duck Soup
[2:10] 2. Lemon Days
[2:17] 3. Southern Sky
[3:12] 4. Shades
[1:55] 5. Flowers
[3:10] 6. Dead Man Stomp
[2:48] 7. Redecoration Day
[2:38] 8. Thru The Valley
[2:14] 9. Homesick Sam
[2:08] 10. Brothers Grim
[3:01] 11. Watcha Do
[3:44] 12. Stick With You
Dubbed an "ambassador of the guitar" by Estonia's Kitarr magazine, Andres Roots is a slide guitarist and a songwriter from Tartu, Estonia who currently leads his own band, Andres Roots Roundabout, while collaborating with harpists Steve Lury (UK), Ismo Haavisto (FIN) and many others in a variety of international projects. He has played with Honeyboy Edwards, toured with Eddie Baytos and topped the music charts on Estonian national television with Eric "Red Mouth" Gebhardt. As a producer, he has received four consecutive Best European Blues Album awards from Canada's Blues Underground Network; as a composer, his music has been aired on five continents and featured in many TV productions, the award-winning Estonian/Latvian/Belarusian film "Lonely Island" (2012), and the documentary "Estonian Tennis 100", both directed by the Berlinale-decorated Peeter Simm. A Walden Guitars artist since 2009, he has taught guitar and given lectures on the history of the blues. His writings about music have been published in music mags in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, and he has collaborated as a promoter with several Estonian blues festivals.
"A name is an omen. Andres Roots is one of the most notable operators in our area," writes Finland's "Blues Minister" Esa Kuloniemi in the Blues News magazine (see sidebar: BN 3/12). "The undertakings of this Estonian guitarist/band leader have done a lot for blues and roots music, across borders and continents."
Born in Tallinn, Estonia, USSR in 1976, Andres Roots made his first public appearance as a guitarist in Denmark in 1995 and his first recordings in Germany in 2000. After stints in several award-winning college bands in Tartu, Estonia around the turn of the century, he co-founded Bullfrog Brown in 2003. Quickly earning cult status in their native country, the alt.blues trio went on to play hundreds of shows from the Baltics to the UK, sharing stages with the likes of Deltahead, Havana Black and Gurf Morlix.
Roots’ solo debut “Roundabout” was released in November 2010 and featured collaborations with Eric “Red Mouth” Gebhardt (USA), Bottleneck John (SWE), Dave Arcari (UK), Black River Bluesman (FIN) and World Harmonica Festival bronze ’09 Jantso Jokelin (FIN). In Estonia, it produced several Eesti Top7 TV hits, including a #1 in “Redecoration Day”. In Britain, Andres Roots was voted 5th best international solo artist in Blues Matters magazine’s Writers Poll 2011 in a tie with Mississippi legend Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Finland’s leading blues lady Erja Lyytinen.
"A name is an omen. Andres Roots is one of the most notable operators in our area," writes Finland's "Blues Minister" Esa Kuloniemi in the Blues News magazine (see sidebar: BN 3/12). "The undertakings of this Estonian guitarist/band leader have done a lot for blues and roots music, across borders and continents."
Born in Tallinn, Estonia, USSR in 1976, Andres Roots made his first public appearance as a guitarist in Denmark in 1995 and his first recordings in Germany in 2000. After stints in several award-winning college bands in Tartu, Estonia around the turn of the century, he co-founded Bullfrog Brown in 2003. Quickly earning cult status in their native country, the alt.blues trio went on to play hundreds of shows from the Baltics to the UK, sharing stages with the likes of Deltahead, Havana Black and Gurf Morlix.
Roots’ solo debut “Roundabout” was released in November 2010 and featured collaborations with Eric “Red Mouth” Gebhardt (USA), Bottleneck John (SWE), Dave Arcari (UK), Black River Bluesman (FIN) and World Harmonica Festival bronze ’09 Jantso Jokelin (FIN). In Estonia, it produced several Eesti Top7 TV hits, including a #1 in “Redecoration Day”. In Britain, Andres Roots was voted 5th best international solo artist in Blues Matters magazine’s Writers Poll 2011 in a tie with Mississippi legend Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and Finland’s leading blues lady Erja Lyytinen.
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