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Brian - Blues is Truth

Bassist with BLUES IS TRUTH

About Me

I have been playing the Blues since the age of 10…I heard some Leadbelly records whilst standing outside a record shop in Paddington, where I was bought up…..not knowing what this music was and having nobody to ask, it took another couple of years and Lonnie Donegan to give me access to this wonderful music. I learnt guitar listening to Leadbelly, Donegan and Hank Marvin… The sixties came and to my surprise the blues was the music that was being played….I played with many blues bands because of my knowledge of this genre…….Jimi Hendrix came along and like most other guitarists played this style blues…only my rootes got in the way…. I was now too bluesy… I played with many bands in the 60s until a chance came to go to Hamburg in Germany. I went on a two week contract and stayed there for nearly 25 years playing with the German Band Madison and the Dutch band Friends…….After 14 years of touring…I then went into session work mainly on Bass …..In the 70s, on an American tour I met Stanley Clark (he wasn’t well known then) who showed me a few things on the bass…..that was it….I had moved to Bass. I play 5 string and Fretless bass with Blues is Truth Trio and Big Band and acoustic and slide in the Duo…….Blues is still and always will be my first love….but I can slip into a bit of smooth jazz very easily MyGen Profile Generator

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Member Since: 4/6/2006
Band Website: blues-is-truth.co.uk
Band Members: Ian McHugh (Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, vocals), Brian Soundy(Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar) plus many very special guests, Pat West, Bob Draper, John (fingers) Fairweather, and many more
Influences: life and all the great blues artists old and new
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Record Label: Songcatcher Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

PRESS RELEASE FOR BLUES IS TRUTH

FROM SONGCATCHER RECORDSArtists we represent : April Cantelo, Blues Is Truth, Brian Soundy, Chrys Davis, Benn SoundyPRESS RELEASE FOR BLUES IS TRUTH SEPTEMBER 22ND 2006ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DATES...
Posted by Brian - Blues is Truth on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:32:00 PST

busy times

Well it's busy times here at Blues is Truth Towers in the Thames Delta - The live recording was a success as was the video. I saw the edit on thusday - great - With so much going on, we hardly have ti...
Posted by Brian - Blues is Truth on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 05:57:00 PST

LIVE RECORDING JULY 22nd Bulls Head Barnes

Hi,My Band Blues is truth is recording a live gig at the Bulls Head in Barnes on the 22nd of July (saturday) from 4pm to 6pm -I would like to invite all the great people I have meet on MySpace. It wou...
Posted by Brian - Blues is Truth on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:56:00 PST

myspace

well, here we are just a few weeks after joining MySpace and totally addicted - It's great to look at my friends, even if some of them are dead, but hey, that's the magic of the web.On other sites and...
Posted by Brian - Blues is Truth on Fri, 12 May 2006 12:54:00 PST