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Paul Garner

About Me

I'm a guitarist and songwriter from New Zealand, based in London UK for several years now because it's a great place to be making the music I love. The music I'm most deeply involved with is the Blues, and I'm on something of a mission to make something new with it. That said, I am also in demand as a traditional blues guitarist and perform with bands like The Cadillac Kings, jump-jivers Oo-Bop-Sh'Bam and Chicago/West Coast harp maestro West Weston, among others.

My band features the superlative talents of Sardinian keyboard maestro, Claudio Corona on Hammond organ and sometimes accordion. His Sardinian compatriot, Sebastiano Dessanay, is on double-bass (taking over from John Allan who does an awesome job on the new CD) and Jason Ribeiro on drums.

Our new album 'What Colour Will You See' (2009) is out now, available at Amazon.co.uk, iTunes, or best option is direct from me .

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Member Since: 11/8/2005
Band Website: www.paul-garner.com
Band Members: Paul Garner Band:
Paul Garner..... guitar, vocals
Claudio Corona..... keyboards
Sebastiano Dessanay..... double-bass
Jason Ribeiro..... drums
Influences: Every blues guitarist who ever recorded. Sun Ra. Bob Dylan. Jimi Hendrix. Ornette Coleman. Ry Cooder. John Coltrane. Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, John Scofield, Bill Frisell. Joe Henry. Marc Ribot. Tom Waits. John Hiatt. Medeski Martin & Wood. G Love. etc etc
Sounds Like: With any luck we sound more and more like ourselves...
Record Label: Progressive Roots
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

CD Launch: 29 May

We're having a launch party for the CD on Friday 29 May. It's right in the centre of the city at "Ray's Jazz", which is in the cafe of Foyles bookstore at the top of Charing Cross Rd. We'll be playi...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:46:00 GMT

New album: out really soon!!

We have basically finished recording for the new album. There's still mixing, mastering, artwork etc to get done but I think it's pretty safe to say it'll be out by the end of September October! Nover...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:35:00 GMT

About the forthcoming album...

Well, I see my last blog post was last October, optimistically announcing that our new album would be out early this year...Here we are nearly April and it’s not yet forthcoming. On the other ha...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:45:00 GMT

Something in the works

Yep the band are currently rehearsing for a new album, which should be out at the start of next year. Once again it'll be full of original material, some of it we've been road-testing live for the pas...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:51:00 GMT

On Tour in Germany

I'm helping out my friends who were in Damien McCabe's Real Feel band after he had to drop out of their tour, for personal reasons. We are playing ten dates in ten days over in Germany and it should b...
Posted by on Sun, 06 May 2007 13:21:00 GMT

NEW VIDEOS posted

Hey folks,Last November we were playing at the 'Real Music Festival', organised by our friends from Elephant Shelf. They were shooting some video to promote future events at the venue, a pub in Batter...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:36:00 GMT

Fun in France and Sardinia

Got back to London this weekend. We had a fantastic time at the 'Blues at Bardies' festival in the south of France.  Was a lot of fun catching up with friends, many of whom are here on MySpace......
Posted by on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:11:00 GMT

Too many blogs

I have too many homepages on different sites to maintain all the blogs. Please see my main website for latest gigs and news: www.paul-garner.com
Posted by on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:11:00 GMT