HELLO!Thanks for visiting. This is where we are supposed to put our bio, but our bio is posted in a few other places already. But we decided we might as well at least include a mini bio here, since here is where you are.
Blues Element
Main Ingredients:
Composers Jamie Browning and Iain Green
1 bowl of blues
1 pinch of pop
1/2 jug of jazz
1/4 cup of country
A dash of folk and a splash of funk
Jamie sings
Iain drums
Mix well (with others)
Toronto's Blues Element is the vehicle that has been bringing the song writing skills of Jamie Browning and Iain Green to the stage and into the studio with the help of the best session players money and barter can buy.
The duo has enjoyed working with an amazing array of talent for their first 2 album releases and live performances since they started writing together in 2004. Although never quite the Four Musketeers (all for one and one for all!), the guitarists' revolving door that was set in motion when Kenmi Chank had to return to Japan did stop spinning for a time. The amazing Adam Rawski thrilled Blues Element's live audiences, and the also amazing Russell Williams was a fine sub and 2nd guitar when budget allowed. We also added guitar whiz Mario Potestio to the rotation. Bass duties were filled in turn by 2 of Toronto's finest; Jason Farrar and Justin Snikkar.
There are a lot of new songs to choose from to hopefully join "Baby's Got The Blues" (2005) and "Are You Ready" (2008) in homes on and on radios around the world.
2004
- writing & recording
2005
- 10 track cd "Baby's Got The Blues" is released
2006
- BGTB track "It's Not You" included on the soundtrack of Canadian film "Chicknapping"
2005 - 2007
- writing, performing, recording
2008
- 12 track cd "Are You Ready" is released
- AYR track "Good Strong Drink" included on 272 Records cd comp "Blues Highway Vol 1"
- AYR voted 6 in the CHMR FM 2008 Blind Lemon Top 20 Canadian Blues Albums
- writing & performing
2009
- Blues Breaker feature on House of Blues Radio
- AYR track "(In) The City" included on the soundtrack of Canadian film "In Fear and Faith"
- writing, performing
2010 and beyond
- writing, performing, .licensing songs to other artists and soundtracks?! recording, releasing?
If you'd like more details you can also visit us here. There's also a bunch of reviews and feedback there about our 2005 (and 1st) release, "Baby's Got The Blues" (it seems our organizational streak faded just before we released "Are You Ready", so that page hasn't materialized yet) as well as a few other tunes. Admittedly, it is a rather boring website though. We've spent zero dollars and not much more in time on it. Sorry! Making music uses up all of both commodities :)
Here's another place to visit us and hear a few other tunes: Blues Element at MusicDirectx - Discover, Download, Watch
To contact the band remove the extra bits from: blues (at) blueselement (dot) com
MUSIC: We decided to take advantage of the full ten song limit here on MySpace and we've posted half and half; 5 songs from each cd are on our the player. We are pleased and amazed that BGTB received airplay in over 30 countries and is still receiving regular airplay, most recently/at the time of writing this in Belgium, The Netherlands, St. John's Newfoundland, Montreal and Kamloops B.C.
"Are You Ready" was released locally in January 2008, but what exactly is a "release date" anyway? For an indie band it is probably the day the boxes of cds arrived from the plant, because a worldwide coordinated release to radio and retail is just not something we can pull off. As of late 2009 the cd still hasn't been sent to all the stations that might play it, or to pretty much any of the media that might review it. Despite that we have been receiving radio play lists and emails from djs around the world (France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Italy, Australia, Spain, Portugal and the U.K., Georgia, Texas, New York and Nebraska in the U.S, and Kamloops, Montreal, St. John's, Waterloo, Hanover, Thunder Bay, Ottawa & Toronto in Canada so far) and we are raring to give it another go with our newest batch of songs.
VIDEOS
Here are some Blues Element videos neatly tucked into a YouTube playlist to keep this page tidy. Just click the arrows to scroll through the list:
Also, check this out if you have a minute!
BLUES ELEMENT WANTS TO FOLLOW YOU HOMEIf you'd like to add Blues Element to your record collection we'd be happy to be there! We always have cds with us at our gigs, so please come over and say hello! Also, this
link will take you to a page on our main site with digital download shopping links and info. (most likely we are available at your favourite online store)
Mail Order CDs
Also, for your shop at home comfort Blues Element is also available at CD Baby in hard copy cd for those of you (like us) who still collect cds but are perhaps too far away to come over and say hello.
