andreas roots

Presented by: Honey Bee Blues Club

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0	SHEFFIELD: the lescar
P	Thursday 30th November, 2023
N	8:00pm

Event information

An official Ambassador for the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024, Andres Roots is an Estonian slide guitarist and songwriter whose music has received airplay on five continents and whose 2016 LP “Roots Music” remains the only blues album ever to top the sales charts in the Baltics.
Introduced in the book “100 Years of Estonian Music” as the country's “internationally best-known player of pure blues”, Roots’ latest release “Vol. 12” has invoked comparisons with not just the heyday of Mississippi Delta Blues but also with Davy Graham, Leo Kottke, Ry Cooder – and even acoustic Led Zeppelin.
“Musicians of this sort run counter to all expectations, and upset various purists,” writes the American jazz critic Ted Gioia in the Honest Broker piece “12 Outstanding New Albums by 12 Artists from 12 Countries”. “It's almost as if muddy waters were flowing into the Gulf of Riga.”
Roots first visited the UK with his then-band Bullfrog Brown in 2006 and has since performed everywhere from London to Shetland. His most recent UK shows were with Dave Arcari in Scotland in 2019, coinciding with a Blues in Britain cover story and producing half of Roots’ 2020 live album ”Mississippi to Loch Lomond”. Most of the rest of that CD was recorded at the Deep Blues Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
"Never afraid to experiment and aim for innovation, Roots seems always to be turning out and delivering fresh blues with its own distinct innovative twist and purpose," states Iain Patience in the UK's Blues Matters! magazine. And in an August 2023 concert review for Finland's Blues-Finland.com, Pasi Tuominen claims: "This guy’s development curve is about to go through the roof... He sounds like a trio at the very least!"
http://www.andresroots.com
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Andres Roots
Slide guitar blues from Tartu, Estonia