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SPENCER BOHREN
American Rootsmusic on tour in Europe: Feb./März 2012
diverse Hörbeispiele auf myspace

Der Pate der Bluesszene von New Orleans verschmelzt mit unvergleichbarer Leichtigkeit Blues, Folk, Gospels, Country und Rock und würzt das Ganze mit einem guten Schuss Voodoo.
Sein Reisegepäck besteht aus seiner alten Gibson Akustikgitarre und einer orginal dreißiger Jahre Lap-Steel-Guitar.
Spencer erzeugt in seinen Konzerten einen perfekten Spannungsbogen: Akustische Songs von filigraner Offenheit wechseln sich ab mit elektrisierenden Lapsteel-Oden.
Den traditionellen Blues präsentiert Spencer mit großem Wissen und Respekt und ist dabei weit entfernt vom "The More You Drink, The Better I Sound" Bluesgeschäft!
Vielmehr schafft er Interpretationen die sich nach erhabener Kunst anfühlen, die aber die Traditionen und Gefühle der American Rootsmusic aufrichtig wiederspiegeln.
Wenn Spencer zu seiner Lap-Steel greift, entsteht eine hoch wirksame elektrische Spannung.
Er versteht es das doch kleine Instrument fast orchestral wirken zu lassen.
Er ist ein Meister der Gelassenheit in der Zeit und er ist klug genug seiner ausdrucksstarken Stimme den nötigen Freiraum zu geben. Für SCHULEN UND UNIS: SPENCER gibt in den USA auch Vorlesungen über die Geschichte
des Blues, mit musikalischen Beispielen.
Aktuelles Album: "Live at the Tube Temple" (Valve Records, Solingen)
Blues-Lehr-CD: "Down the Dirt Road Blues/ A History with Musical Accompaniment" (Valve) NEUES ALBUM in Planung für Anfang 2011.
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Tour Dates 2011

Spencer Bohren
Master of American Folk Musik
Born into a gospel-singing family in the wind-swept prairies and Rocky Mountains of Wyoming in 1950, Spencer Bohren began singing and playing music as a young boy. At the age of fourteen, inspired by the folk music he heard on the radio, Spencer picked up a guitar and within a few weeks started performing in public. The next few years found Spencer delving deeply into America's treasure of blues, country, gospel and folk music, soaking up guitar styles and historical details from hundreds of sources, both popular and obscure. He played with several rock, country and blues bands through the sixties and seventies, always touring and performing for an endless succession of audiences throughout the western states and along the west coast. In the mid-seventies, Spencer and his wife, Marilyn, left Boulder, Colorado, and found a spiritual home in the storied music city of New Orleans, starting their family there.

New Orleans had a profound effect on Spencer, musically and personally, and he quickly became a fixture on the local music scene with weekly gigs at the now-legendary Tipitina's and the Old Absinthe Bar on Bourbon Street. As his reputation grew in the city, Spencer once again started touring, this time primarily in the southern U.S. Before long he made the daring decision to bring his family on the road so they could be together. For seven years the Bohren family traveled while Spencer performed in countless venues all around the United States, sharing his love of America's music with his growing audience and singing his own original songs.

In 1983, Spencer initiated a long and notable recording career with his first album, Born in a Biscayne, featuring keyboard wizard Doctor John on piano, organ and vocals. His most recent album, The Blues According to Hank Williams, pays homage to another of Spencer's perennial favorites. His Long Black Line, a musical reportage of post-Katrina New Orleans, provided the soundtrack for that great city's recovery process. In the intervening years, fourteen other albums, including Full Moon, Southern Cross, Live at the Tube Temple, Dirt Roads and Carry the Word were released in the United States, France, Germany, Sweden and Japan.

European music lovers were quick to pick up on Spencer and his music once the recordings found their way across the Atlantic. Since 1984 he has performed over one hundred concert tours in nearly every country on the European continent. Spencer Bohren continues to celebrate the traditional music of America in concerts all over the world, and his original songs, excellent guitar work, atmospheric lapsteel playing and spellbinding stories assure that his enthusiastic audience will follow him into the future.

www.spencerbohren.com
www.valve-records.com