11/12/2014, 21:30

BLUFROG

After electrified beginnings, BLUFROG made the choice to go back to the roots of the blues with an acoustic approach. Playing old standard tunes from Robert Johnson, Jimmy Reed, Lightnin Hopkins, Little Walter… These boys are dreaming of the delta and midnight crossroads…

Phil, the frontman singer and guitarist is always moved by Mississippi John Hurt's, Lightnin Hopkins' music. Besides, he enjoys Eric Clapton's bluesy way of playing the guitar and hopes to shake Eric Bibb's hand. Stephane, the drummer, is more into the sound from The Motown, the Absolute Funk... Moreover he is fond of Springsteen and the E Street Band and knows how to be discreet and inventive enough to really colourise music. The harpist is Fred, he is influenced by masters of blues like Jean-Jacques Milteau, Greg Szlapczynski, Vincent Bucher, Charlie Mc Coy, Junior Wells and Rice Miller. Another Fred joined the band in the beginning of 2008... He's a great Blues and Jazz Double Bass player and is well known too for his excellent playing on Guitars (Classical, Marcel Dadi, John Renbourn...) and Banjo.