Eric Sardinas plays ferocious slide blues guitar. His band Big Motor backs his fury with the same intensity for an awe inspiring concert experience. Eric Sardinas has toured with Steve Vai. He is currently signed to Steve Vai’s label, “Favored Nations” (http://www.favorednations.com/FN_allartists.html). Eric’s playing hits you like a freight train…he leaves you exhausted from just watching him.
Eric Sardinas is currently touring with special guest Joanne Shaw Taylor. She is a blues guitarist / vocalist who was discovered by Dave Stewart of The Eurythmics. You can check out both acts at The Winchester in Cleveland, Ohio on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010. Showtime is 9:00pm. Admission is $15.00. Visit The Winchester’s website at www.thewinchester.net for more information and directions.
Eric Sardinas
From Eric Sardinas’ website bio (www.ericsardinas.com):
“Eric (Sardinas)’s signature brand of Delta dynamite has been a long time in the making…Though born a lefty, he naturally gravitated towards playing the guitar as a right-hander…it’s actually been a major contributing factor in the formation of his unique style and specialized technique.”
“Both his 1999 debut “Treat Me Right” and follow up “Devil’s Train” were chocked-full of electrified Dobro thunder, but neither surrendered Eric’s deeply rooted respect for traditional blues. Mixed alongside his aggressively soulful, self-penned compositions were searing renditions of several obscure treasures from the back catalogues of classic blues artists.”
“…helping to shape his artistic direction were the soulful grounds in which he planted his earliest musical roots. Sardinas recalls that it was exposure to the likes of gospel, Motown and R&B that eventually caused him to seek out the emotionally charged acoustics sounds of the Deep South. Delta titans like Charlie Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Bukka White, and Fred McDowell were among his favorites.”
“Rural country blues players such as Barbecue Bob and Blind Willie Mctell were later added to his list, as was the electricity of the Chicago blues sound. Indeed, – Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Otis Rush and Albert King could then be considered responsible for setting Sardinas on a collision course with what would ultimately become the final contributor to his developing style, this (of course) being rock ‘n roll.”
Joanne Shaw Taylor
From Joanne Shaw Taylor’s website bio (www.pigs-ear.biz/jst/bio.html):
[As quoted by] Dave Stewart [of the] Eurythmics. “I have played with all sorts of blues musicians all over the world, I even made a film Deep Blues where I went to Mississippi and recorded with some legendary players such as R.L Burnside and Jesse-Mae Hemphill.”
“Last year I heard something I thought I would never hear… a British White Girl [Joanne Shaw Taylor] playing blues guitar so deep and passionately it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end!”
“When Dave Stewart had his big experience, Joanne Shaw Taylor was only 16. Her skills at the Telecaster were so perfect that the blues fan and Eurythmics-frontman asked her to join his supergroup D.U.P. to tour Europe in 2002…Today Joanne is 23…”
“When Joanne was a little schoolgirl, she was caught by the rough side of the blues: SRV, Albert Collins, the Paladins, Jimi Hendrix. At Christmas she got her first electric guitar. The old classical guitar, which she had played since she was eight, vanished from the children’s room. [Joanne says,] “As soon as I heard SRV and Albert Collins I knew pretty much that I wanted to do that full stop. That was the lifestyle route that I was going to go down. It was never a hobby. I was always very serious and dedicated to it.”
A video of Eric Sardinas & Big Motor performing live:
A video of Joanne Shaw Taylor & Band performing live:
