DANNY LOUISIANA ROTHI grew up in Nyc around the time of the big folk and blues revival...I heard lloyd Price..s version of "Stack-o-lee" on the radio when I was 5 or 6...and that was it for me!
I was already picking out melodies on the piano and guitar, and started to spend all my time with music...and still do.Id heard that bluesmen like Robert Johnson had struck a deal with the Devil to get their power, and I did the same in my own way. Call it Voodoo, or the power of suggestion..whatever. I knew what I wanted and put all my energy into it.
My friends and me used to search the stores for hard to find records of early blues.....all that stuff was out of print then, though later it was all re-issued. You had to search in stores, or find private collectors, just to get to hear those records.I was already gigging by the time I was 12, and played all the coffee houses in Greenwhich village where Bob Dylan and many others started, though they were a bit older than me.
I got to hear, meet, and sometimes even play with so many great artists back then...Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Sonny Terry. I remember my Dad took me to the famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem- I was only 12 or 13--on the bill: Muddy, B.B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Odetta...
there were 5 or 6 acts and they used to do 4 or 5 shows a day!!Later on I saw Jimi Hendrix several nights in a small club (the Cafe Au Go-Go) playing in John Hammond..s Bluesband-WOW!!He was just about to go to England and record his first record...and the rest is historyI met Robbie Robertson and the guys from The Band, I hung out with some guys from Muddy Waters.. band too...I was just a kid, but my eyes and ears were wide open.I hitchhiked out to San Francisco when the hippies were taking over Haight Ashbury. I liked traveling like the old bluesmen did, with my guitar, and playing in clubs, on the street, whatever i could find.
I still like to travel. Ive been all over the States and South America too, where I got into Brazilian music.
I went to school after that for a couple of years at Berklee College in Boston, where I got to play with some incredible Brazilian musicians..Rique Pantoja, Jacques Morelembaum, Pascoal Meirelles...and learned about Jazz, and how to write Big Band charts.After that I came to Europe...still playing with all kinds of groups and recording..I usually ended up as the musical director for different acts...organizing their music, until it finally came together here in Mallorca where i recorded my own first album, Louisiana Roth and Friends "Black and White"
It really feels great- I have a fine band with me now, and got to do my original stuff and some great covers-for example "Ive Been Hoodoed" by one of my biggest heroes, Dr. John.In fact Dr. John, to me, stands for the most important thing of all...being authentic!
Hes such a soulful,honest musician...which is all i ever want to be too!!So if ya hear that beat
You got to move your feet, Cmon!
Let your hair down and get Funky!
Thats what Louisiana Roth..is all about yáll!!
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