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Black River Bluesman left a comment for Blues-Finland.com
Haa mä oon eka! Tervetuloo ny si tännekki.
j u kk a
Craig Hughes left a comment for Black River Bluesman
Cheers Jukka! Hopefully see you over here again sometime next year?
If you want a copy of the album just drop me a note of your address (I know, I should have it around here somewhere ...), and I'll get one off to you.
Black River Bluesman left a comment for Craig Hughes
Hi Craig,
good to see you here too. Good Luck with the new CD!
j u kk a
Black River Bluesman left a comment for R.D.Olson "The Real Deal"
cheers
Black River Bluesman left a comment for Jim Chilson
Hi Jim,
I just arrived in Minneapolis. First gig tomorrow....
See you,
j u kk a
Jim Chilson left a comment for Black River Bluesman
see you wednesday Jukka!
Jim
Jim Chilson left a comment for Black River Bluesman
Looks like we will see each other at Deep Blues Festival this year after all !
- Jim
Black River Bluesman replied to Rick Saunders's discussion 'Why hasn't this reviewer heard the term "Alt-Blues" and what can be done about it?'
Hi,
We decided to use the term alt.blues and so we have a society (?) called Alt.Blues Finland ry. We are organizing an international festival called Floating Cocroach Festival in Helsinki. It has got good publicity in Finland/Estonia in nationwide…
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- About Me:
- Black River Bluesman and the Croaking Lizard play their Blues in the deep woods and swamps of the muddy Black River Delta way up North in cold Finland. Their unrefined, electric and hypnotic Blues have been compared to the rough sounds of the Mississippi Hill Country artists as well as to anything between Tom Waits and Jim Morrison or psychoblues and garage. Whatever the influences may be, they play their animal Blues with no compromises - just the way they feel.
Cds released:
- Rat Bone (2008)
- Cardboard and Plastic EP (2006)
- Ants in my Kitchen (2005)
- Not a Dog-gone Thing (2003)
- Blues from the Tower (1998)
Gigs in Germany, Italy, Czech Rep, Brazil, Nepal, UK, Estonia, Latvia, Poland…
Festivals played include:
- Floating Cockroach Festival 2007
- Himalayan Blues Festival (Nepal) 2007
- Rawa Blues (Poland) 2003
- Augustibluus (Estonia) 2007
- Dundee Blues Bonanza (UK) 2007
- Torun Blues Meeting (Poland) 2004
- Lindalevi Festival (Estonia) 2007
- Carelian Faces Festival (Russia) 2006
- Sun7 Festival (Brazil) 2007
- Halloween Blues 2007
- Aulanko Blues 2007, 2004
- Jämsession 2007, 2006
- Billnäs Revival 2006
- Scandinavian Blues Party 2006
- Elo Jazz & Blues 2005
- Amnesty International charity concert 2003
- Faces 2003
2008:
-Shetland Blues Festival (UK)
-Summertime Blues
-Kaavi Blues
-Dundee Blues Bonanza (UK)
-Savonsolmu Beach & Blues Party
-Floating Cockroach Festival II
-Blues News 40 years – cavalcade
Reviews, articles and interviews in dozens of international magazines and newspapers.
Radio stations in 25 different countries have played the CDs
Live TV and radio performances and interviews:
- Finland, Italy, Brazil, Nepal, Poland…
“Jukka ´Black River Bluesman´ and his Cockroach Combo destroyed the woods and the mountains around their tiny hometown of Mustio Finland by carving their guitars, drums and harmonicas from whole ironwood trees with their bare hands and by using John Henry´s twelve pound hammer (with four foot handle) they beat down those mountains for brass, silver and iron (and coal to fire this thing) to fashion the rest of the parts they needed. When they were finished they stomped their thirst with a bottle of RL Burnside´s Bloody mthrfckr and sat down in the full moon light at that muddy crossroads between Holly Springs Mississippi, Mustio and County Kisko to play Their raw dirty beautiful Blues.”
-Rick Saunders, Deep Blues (USA), August 2006
- Favorite Blues Artists and Bands
- In no particular order: Deltahead, Dogbreath, Bullfrog Brown, LR Phoenix, Dirty Trainload, Tuomari Nurmio, Hillstomp, Left Lane Cruiser, Hell´s Kitchen, Bob Log III, John Lee Hooker, T-Model Ford, RL Burnside, Jimmy Lee Williams, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Hound Dog Taylor, Patti Smith, Sex Pistols, Marc Bolan, Linton Kwesi Johnson and so on.... If I could only have one artist´s all albums and nothing else, I would choose those of John Lee Hooker.
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Comment Wall (13 comments)
- At 11:23pm on November 24, 2009,
Craig Hughes said… - Cheers Jukka! Hopefully see you over here again sometime next year?
If you want a copy of the album just drop me a note of your address (I know, I should have it around here somewhere ...), and I'll get one off to you.
- At 6:23pm on July 11, 2009,
Jim Chilson said… - see you wednesday Jukka!
Jim
- At 3:24pm on April 1, 2009,
Jim Chilson said…
- Looks like we will see each other at Deep Blues Festival this year after all !
- Jim
- At 11:04pm on January 31, 2009,
Homesick Joe said… - Hey Matee, finally got some sounds of bands I've been in. Two of the bands I'm playing Guitar and in the hard rock punk poppin' band, I'm on the kit (but I've mellowed since then. ha ha) it's 99% original and not what Stringy and I do now. hope you enjoy.
- At 10:45pm on December 30, 2008,
billy jones bluez said… - Hi Black River Bluesman,
Here is my wish for the very best to you and all my LiveBluesWorld friends as we take the music of our heritage into 2009 and the 21st century.
It's an honor to be on this journey with you. ..and a pleasure to be your friend. Thank you for allowing me to be a member of the community.
..."true greats" ...are not those born with "golden spoons" in their mouths. ...but those who through "hard work" turn their own "wooden spoons" into "gold".
"...the re-emergence of blues music as serious social commentary."
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- At 7:57am on November 19, 2008,
Jacqueline Telford said… - jepp, bor nere i södra sverige :)
ha det bra!
.j
- At 5:51am on November 19, 2008,
Homesick Joe said…
- Hey Matee, glad to make your acquaintance. You couldn't find any sounds cause there ain't none, we've got a video of a show we did earlier this year but neither Stringy or I know how and what to do with it to get it on the net, we are looking for someone that does know what to do, so keep a look out.
- At 1:04pm on November 18, 2008,
Jacqueline Telford said…
- stoppin by to say hey n take a listen.. sounds good!
peace .j
- At 5:54pm on November 17, 2008,
Jim Chilson said…
- Your sound is great....very original and steeped in the Hill Country sounds. I dig it! alot!
- Jim
- At 7:08am on October 19, 2008,
Ken Pustelnik said… - Thanks for the message , yes The Groundhogs toured with Hooker regularly
up to 68/69 and we recorded an album with him in the mid 60's , we also had
dinner with Howling Wolf in London in the early 60's , courtesy of Dave Kelly, toured with Little Walter , Champion Jack Dupree , Big Joe Williams
( who we recorded in London about 69 for a release on our own label ,
Groundhog Series ) Jimmy Reed , toured with The Rolling Stones , Canned
Heat , John Mayall , Edgar Winter plus a lot of individual band members
appearing on blues records & c.d's right up to the present day , 2008
being the 45th. anniversary of the band.
Still we have not played the Himalayan Blues Festival which sounds a great thing to do
regards
Ken Pustelnik
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