Time: 51:15
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: blues
Art: Front
1. Sitting In My Backyard (3:26)
2. Not Cool Enough (4:04)
3. This Morning (3:42)
4. Crying Heart (4:22)
5. Stupid (4:29)
6. Blow Them Troubles Away (3:15)
7. Harem Blues (3:10)
8. I Don't Need A Friend Like You (3:00)
9. I Wish You Well (4:07)
10. Take The Risk (4:19)
11. Fat Belly (3:00)
12. Big Place (3:04)
13. Is It A Shame (2:58)
14. Linda's Blues (4:11)
I've been into blues music since I got my first Hopkins record when I was about 14!
I have rarely won awards and never with B.B. King recorded. But in the last 30 years or so I've gained a lot of experience in blues: I accompanied Peter Kern in various formations for a good 10 years, was with Christian Dozzler & The Blues Wave from 1995 - 2000, and from 2000 until now increasingly with my own band, at the same time also from 2012 - 2017 with 4some Blues (CH/A), further from 2013 - 2016 with Norbert Schneider & Band (A) and since 2016 with Walter Baumgartner's Blues Box (A/CH/GB) in the course of many beautiful concert tours across traveling through Europe. I have been leading the weekly blues session at the Louisiana Blues Pub in Vienna for around 20 years.
I met numerous international blues greats like Henry Gray, John Primer, Dave Myers, Steve Bell, Larry Garner, Johnny Allen, Big Jay McNeely, Louisiana Red, Vince Weber, Katie Webster, Abi Wallenstein, Axel Zwingenberger, Big Daddy Wilson, Jeremy Spencer (Fleetwood Mac) and others on stage together.
I experienced career highlights with live performances at ORF (Licht ins Dunkel, senior club), at the 18th SWR Blues Festival in Lahnstein (D), at the Kempten Jazz Spring (D), in the Balver Höhle (D), in the Banana Peel (B), at the recordings for the - for me already third - Christian Dozzler production "Louisiana" in the state of the same name in the USA, winning the Concerto Poll 1998 for the CD "Smile A While", at sessions in the legendary Checkerboard Lounge, Rosa`s Lounge and at Buddy Guys Legends (USA), at the JazzAscona Festival, at the Blues Festival Baden as well as at Summerblues Basel (CH) and BluesBaltica - International Blues Festival in Eutin (D).
These events and experiences shape my understanding of music and my preferences to this day. And almost forty years after my first Hopkins record I can say: I am passionate about playing the blues!
Linda's Blues MP3
