Styles : Slide Guitar, Acoustic Blues, Delta BluesReleased : 1971
Lable : Blue Goose Records
01 - Crow Jane
02 - A Rag
03 - Make Me A Pallet On The Floor
04 - Brighton Belle Blues
05 - West Coast Blues
06 - Hellhound On My Trail
07 - Fightin' The Jug
08 - Detroit Blues
09 - Sloopy Rag
10 - Cigarette Blues
11 - Amanda Jane
12 - Kind Hearted Woman Blues
13 - Janda14 - Satisfied
Born in 1950 in Brighton, England, Roger remains one of the UK's major exponents of the slide guitar.
At the age of 15 he was starting to play at folk clubs in the Brighton area. In 1968, continuing an interest in Country and Delta blues, he started his own club above "The Lewes Arms" in Lewes, Sussex. Along with fellow musicians Sam Mitchell and Dick Wardell, the club featured guest performances by Jo Ann Kelly and her brother Dave Kelly, Simon Prager, Steve Rye, Bob Hall, Graham Hine, Andy Fernbach and Tony McPhee (who was later to form the Groundhogs).
The club later moved to Brighton. In 1971 Roger opened for Muddy Waters at The Gardener Centre, Brighton. He also appeared at the Cambridge Folk Festival and on the first pyramid stage at Glastonbury the same year.
In 1972 Muddy Waters was quoted in Sounds Magazine as saying,
"Roger Hubbard is as good as any blues guitarist in the U.K. or the United States".
His first album Brighton Belle Blues was recorded in 1970 by Nick Perls for his US Blue Goose label. Nick was a key figure on the American blues trail, rediscovering the likes of Son House and Skip James. Having played his 1935 National Steel Duolian for many years, Roger now plays an electric resonator guitar of his own design, known as "The Hub" as well as a steel resonator mandolin given to him by the AMI company in Munich.
Roger is currently gigging with his band Buick 6 as well as doing solo and duo work.
His song Home Lovin' Man was recorded by US blues man Eric Bibb on his 2003 album Natural Light .
Discography
Solo:
1971 Brighton Belle Blues - Blue Goose Records
2003 Danger Deep Mud - Deep Mud Records
2007 Out of my Hands - Deep Mud Records
Duo:
1993 Busy Bootin' (John Pearson & Roger Hubbard) - Taxim Records
(Band) Buick 6:
1989 Cypress Grove - Taxim Records
1995 Juice Machine - Taxim Records
1997 Foolin' With This Heart EP - Taxim Records
2008 Live At The Telegraph - Buick Records
original CD from sussex
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