PROFESSOR BOTTLENECK's program combines surprising interpretations of well-known traditionals and classics of the genre with original compositions. Defying the coming and going of fabricated "blues-revivals" and the omnipresent attacks of "digitalization" on the human ear, here is a down to earth musician who plays truely hand-made music to move your hearts and your feet.

ROLF HEIMANN (guitars, vocals, kazoo and the like) has learnt his trade in diverse blues groups. In Europe, particularly in Western Germany he is duely respected as an expert on the slide or bottleneck guitar.

His gigs in the USA together with the harp-vituoso Juke Joint Johnny (South Carolina) and the East coast picker Scott Perry have given him that suave Southern finish, and his versions of Southern classics such as Blind Willie Johnson or Robert Johnson, or, for that matter, the lap-steel style of the “Sacred Steel”-tradition have become his trademark sign.

PROFESSOR BOTTLENECK pays homage to all the blues people in the world. And if you have doubts about just another white European playing the blues, remember what Charles Mingus once said: "No one could sing my blues but me..., just as no one could holler for you if I decided to punch you in your mouth."

So, when all is said and done, just enjoy the music, and let's all share something good.

THE JUKE KINGS

Are:

Frank Born (diatonic and chromatic harps)

Rado Valjak (bass)

Ronald Jeurissen (drums)

Samples of their music you find them here.

Rolf Heimann, Geneschen 83, D - 41366 Schwalmtal T:+49-2163-10233

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