Stephen Two-Dog James

Stephen Two-Dog James is a British blues artist living in the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California, with his wife and daughter. He plays lead guitar, and sometimes bass, on the worship team at his local Calvary Chapel, in San Bernardino. His ministry is writing and performing his Delta blues songs about his relationship with the Lord. He is slowly working on his first CD release, and looking to take his ministry out into the world.His influences are many and varied, and include the powerful, rich Delta blues of Son House, Robert Johnson, R L Burnside, Furry Lewis and Muddy Waters’ earliest recordings, for the Library of Congress.Everywhere he plays, people are enjoying Two-Dog’s Christian Delta blues, particularly at his regular ministry gig, at the U-Turn for Christ ranch way out in Perris, CA. He has recently started ministering with his songs in an electric format, with a hard-edged Southside Chicago Blues flavour, in partnership with the excellent Sam Slide-Dog Carreras, blues guitarist supreme. When the two bluesmen first met, Sam paid Two-Dog a profound compliment by telling him, “You play the blues the way it should be played.” Two-Dog has never looked back.