Ian Siegal - singer, songwriter, guitarist, bandleader Siegal discovered his love of the blues through the music of Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. At 16 he worked as a roadie for his cousin's band. There he also happened to get the opportunity to sing in front of an audience, with surprising success. At 18 he taught himself to play the guitar. At 20 he dropped out of art school and went to Berlin. There he perfected his guitar technique and decided to start a music career when he returned to England. He stayed in Nottingham for five years, where he and a newly formed band became an integral part of the local music scene. He later went to London to expand his music career and founded a new band there, his current one. He was inducted into the British Blues Awards Hall of Fame as he won the "Male Vocals" category in 2011, 2012 and 2013.[1] He received the "The Kevin Thorpe Award Songwriter Of The Year" in 2013 for the song I Am The Train.[2] He was also awarded in the "Acoustic Act" category in 2012, 2015 and 2016, in 2010 he won the title of best blues band with his band, and in 2013 he was awarded with the Mississippi Mudbloods for the album Candy Store Kid. In 2018, Siegal won two UK Blues Awards, in the categories "Male Blues Vocalist of the Year" and "Acoustic Blues Act of the Year". Ian Siegal was strongly influenced by the works of British blues rock of the 1960s and 1970s. Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys is a blues band from Long Beach (California) founded in 1994. The band was founded by Johnny Mastro in 1994. The band's first appearances were in various blues clubs in Los Angeles. From 1996 onwards they were the house band at Babe's & Ricky's, one of the oldest and most famous blues clubs in the greater Los Angeles area.The owner, "Mama" Laura Mae Gross, gave the band the name Mama's Boys.
Johnny Mastro & Mama's Boys play a rough Chicago blues.The sound of this band is unique, no other existing band sounds like the Mama's Boys.Rough, dirty, hard to the bone, but performed authentically, without clichs and without compromise. Johnny says of his music: "sledge hammer blues".Johnny Mastro can be found on stage on his knees, blowing the entire contents of his lungs into the harmonica.
Smokehouse Brown sometimes coaxes the strangest tones out of his guitar, straining the six strings to the limit.Jimmy and Mike provide the necessary solid foundation with thunderous rhythms. Between 2001 and 2010, the band released a total of five albums and one EP.From 2004, they also toured Europe, visiting Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany. In 2006 and 2007, they played at two of the major European festivals, in 2006 at the Moulin Blues Festival in Ospel, the Netherlands, and in 2007 at the Peer Blues Festival in Belgium.The first German tour followed in May 2009.
In 2010, they were again guests at the Moulin Blues Festival in Ospel, the Netherlands.
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