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Rambling Steve Gardner
Rambling Steve Gardner, Mississippi Roots and Bluesman, based in Tokyo, Japan, plays original, acoustic roots and country blues music; finger picking and slide on National Reso-phonic guitars, with harmonica. You know, Big Leg Acoustic Stuff.
With more than six CDs of traditional and original music, Rambling Steve Gardner plays and tours solo and with the JERICHO ROAD SHOW in the Southeastern United States, Austria and Germany as well as his home base of Japan, where many of his tours have been sponsored by the Cultural Affairs section of the United States Department of State.
Rambling Steve Gardner, based in Japan since 1980, grew up in Mississippi, listening to, learning from and sometimes playing with many of the legendary blues greats from: Sam Chatmon of the Mississippi Sheiks, Booby Barnes, and James “Son” Thomas in the Mississippi Delta; Jessie Mae Hemphill, the “She Wolf” of the Mississippi Hill Country; down to Central Mississippi Blues Man Jack Owens from Bentonia, to name but a few.
CDs to date by Rambling Steve Gardner include his latest and sixth release on Blues Cat Records(2012), HESITATION BLUES, which follows WOOLY BULLY EXPRESS (2010) and WALKING THE DOG (2009) both with the JERICHO ROAD SHOW along with JERICHO (2007); BIG DELTA CROSSING (2005); RAMBLING WITH THE BLUES (2002). (The JERICHO ROAD SHOW, a group of international musicians based in Tokyo, Nashville and New Orleans include Washboard Chaz of Playing For Change and Bill Steber of the Jake Leg Stompers).
The JERICHO ROAD SHOW release, WALKIN’ THE DOG, was chosen by New Orleans community radio WWOZ as one of the top ten best releases for 2009. The single, “Been On The Job Too Long”, Rambling Steve Gardner’s original tune from the CD JERICHO, was nominated for Best Political Song of the Year (2008) by The Just Plain Folks international music awards, Nashville, TN. Rambling Steve Gardner is featured in the DVD/Double CD, Jessie Mae Hemphill and Friends, “Dare You To Do It Again” 219 Records (2004).
Rambling Steve Gardner is available for workshops and seminars on American Roots and Blues music as well as house parties, live performances and concerts. As a part of the four member ACOUSTIC HOUSE PARTY & TRAVELING SHOW he will be playing a selection his original and traditional tunes including, “Summit Road”, “MS River Blues”, “Hesitation Blues”, “ Midnight Special”, his arrangement of “16 Tons” with Bill Steber on saw and the ever favorite “Walking The Dog”.
★♪♪ ★★--Press Quotes and Reviews --★★★♪♪★
..the gut power of Delta blues has had fewer finer exponent than Rambling Steve Gardner.” Michael Pronko-The Japan Times (Japan)
“Rambling Steve Gardner...storyteller, singer, bluesman... blues originale.”
Dietmar Hoscher- CONCERTO magazine (Austria)
Steve and his guys bring the best of the back porch to the front of the big stage” Peggy Lou WWOZ 91.3 FM Public Community Radio New Orleans (USA)
"Does it get any better than WALKIN' THE DOG or WOOLY BULLY EXPRESS? You bet it does when you listen to Rambling Steve Gardner's newest CD, HESITATION BLUES". James POE WABG AWESOME AM 960 (USA)
"Some of the coolist music that I have ever heard. Metal guitars and saws. Real blues from Rambling Steve Gardner. He is the real thing."
Andreas Dirnberger Blues Promotions (Austria) @ www.bluesfan.at
“Rambling Steve Gardner, rambles the lost highways of Hank Williams and Jimmy Rogers as easily as the flat delta of the Mississippi blues men whose music he carries on so very well.” Norio Higashi Radio Tokyo 954 AM (Japan)
"Mississippi's music ambassador to Japan" Al Brown WMOX Radio 1010 AM (USA)
"Rambling Steve Gardner's music is as Mississippi as the cotton fields and the dark, muddy river bearing the same name." C. Sade Turnipseed "Delta Renaissance" WABG-TV (USA)
"Great sound...Just my cup of tea." Barry Ivory “Melting Pot" 99.3 FM (Australia)
"Rambling Steve Gardner, Hesitation Blues, is one of my favorite artist, playing some of my favorite songs on some of my favorite instruments" Thomas Greener "Ragged But Right" KVMR 89.5 FM (USA)
"I hear cotton fields, Tom Sawyer, the Mississippi River and the great
American open road in Rambling Steve Gardner's music.”
BIG BIKE CRUSING Magazine (Japan)
“Rambling Steve’s arrangements bring something fresh to the roots and blues tradition and that is every blues man’s greatest responsibility.” Ry Beville, Ko-e Magazine (Japan)
