STEADY ROLLIN' BOB MARGOLIN WITH MIKE SPONZA BAND
''BLUES AROUND THE WORLD''
2012
44:41
1 Lost Again 02:42
2 Blues Lover 04:04
3 Down In The Alley 05:56
4 Rather Than Being Free 04:11
5 While You're Down There 03:46
6 Ice Or Fire 03:35
7 Crazy 'Bout You Baby 04:10
8 Rollin' And Tumblin' 02:49
9 It's Hard To Be On The Road 03:10
10 Hard Feelings 04:02
11 The Door Was Open 03:07
12 Love In Vain 03:04
BOB MARGOLIN/GUITARS, VOCALS
MIKE SPONZA/GUITARS, VOCALS ON 4, 9
MORENO BUTTINAR/DRUMS
MAURO TOLOT/BASS
RICHARD ''ROSY'' ROSENBLATT/HARMONICA ON 12
BIOGRAPHY (BOB MARGOLIN)
by Richard Skelly/AMG
With each new album, guitarist, singer, and songwriter "Steady Rollin'" Bob Margolin continues to expand the boundaries of modern blues. Margolin, a sideman for Muddy Waters from 1973 to 1980, was born on May 9, 1949, and raised in Brookline, MA, became enamored with the recordings of Chuck Berry while still in high school and began playing out a few years later while attending Boston University in the early '70s. Working with a variety of Boston-area blues bands and one he called the Boston Blues Band, he elected to pursue music full-time. In 1973, he joined Waters on the road and in the studio for seven years, playing festivals and clubs around the U.S., Canada, and Europe with the legendary bluesman, who died in 1983. Highlights of his career with Waters' band included the taping for The Last Waltz on Thanksgiving Day 1976, and performing at the White House for Jimmy Carter in August 1978.
In 1980, two years after getting his nickname from a Boston DJ, Margolin began leading a band under his own name and did so for nine years before recording his first album for Tom Principato's Powerhouse label. He later recorded a second album for Powerhouse, but both are now out of print. He continued touring before getting his second big break in 1993, signing up with Bruce Iglauer's Alligator label, which by then had grown by leaps and bounds and had secured stable worldwide distribution. Margolin's albums for Alligator are superb recordings that advance the traditional boundaries of the music: Down in the Alley (1993), My Blues & My Guitar (1995), and Up & In (1997). Each one is a delightful mix of familiar blues covers and Margolin's idiosyncratic, insight-filled, and sometimes funny original songs. Hold Me to It followed in 1999. In 2003 Margolin released All-Star Blues Jam, his first disc on Telarc Blues, which featured former members of Muddy Waters' band: Pinetop Perkins, Carey Bell, and Willie "Big Eyes" Smith. The mostly one-man-band effort In North Carolina appeared from Steady Rollin' in 2007.
OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY (MIKE SPONZA)
Blues, soul e rock’n’roll are the key words to describe Mike Sponza, guitarist, singer and composer, on the European blues panorama since early 90’s.
A lifetime commitment to develop a personal style, contemporary and rich of different flavours.
Original tunes and detailed arrangements are the main ingredients of Mike’s music.
In the last years Mike Sponza established his name on the international scene with his discographic projects and his performances, showing the great vitality of Italian blues from a new point of view.
Since his discographic debut in 1997, Mike did a long road, not only on the artistic side: international festivals, club gigs and cooperations catalyzed the attention of blues audiences on his vision of a contemporary European blues, which is not afraid of purists’ opinions as well as avoiding overseas stereotypes.
In 2005 Mike Sponza started the project “Kakanic Blues” the first Central European blues initiative: a cd and a dvd have been released under the name “Central Europe Blues Convention” with some of the most outstanding musicians of this area and guitar legend Carl Verheyen, as special guest. The project has been reviewed worldwide with a strong interest for the musical results as well as for the cultural, social and political background, where musicians find a common language and understanding in the blues.
In 2008 the cd “Kakanic Blues 2.0” has been released with the partecipation of 25 musicians from Italy, Austria, Slovenja, Croatia, Serbja, Hungary, Ireland, Great Britain, USA, including as special guests the great Ian Siegal and Carl Verheyen.
In 2011 the project becomes complete with the release of “Continental Shuffle”!!!
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