Black River Bluesman

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Jukka Black River Bluesman and his Cockroach Combo destroyed the woods and the mountains around their tiny hometown of Mustio Finland by carving their guitars, drums and harmonicas from whole ironwood trees with their bare hands and by using John Henrys twelve pound hammer (with four foot handle) they beat down those mountains for brass, silver and iron (and coal to fire this thing) to fashion the rest of the parts they needed. When they were finished they stomped their thirst with a bottle of RL Burnsides Bloody mthrfckr and sat down in the full moon light at that muddy crossroads between Holly Springs Mississippi, Mustio and County Kisko to play Their raw dirty beautiful Blues.Rick Saunders, Deep Blues (USA), August 2006.



Cds released:
- Rat Bone (2008) with the Croaking Lizard
-Cardboard and Plastic EP (2006) with the Croaking Lizard
-Ants in my Kitchen (2005) with the Cockroach Combo
-Not a Dog-gone Thing (2003) with the Cockroach Combo
-Blues from the Tower (1998) The Black River Blues Band
Festivals played include:
- Floating Cockroach Festival 2007 - Himalayan Blues Festival (Nepal) 2007
- Rawa Blues (Poland) 2003 - Bari Jazz Festival (Italy) 2010 - Molinara Crossroads Jukejoint Festival (Italy) 2010 -Augustibluus (Estonia) 2007
- Dundee Blues Bonanza (UK) 2007 - Torun Blues Meeting (Poland) 2004
- Lindalevi Festival (Estonia) 2007 - Carelian Faces Festival (Russia) 2006
- Sun7 Festival (Brazil) 2007 - Halloween Blues 2007 - Black River Music Festival 2010
- Aulanko Blues 2007, 2004 - Jämsession 2007, 2006
- Billnäs Revival 2006 - Scandinavian Blues Party 2006
- Elo Jazz & Blues 2005 - Amnesty International charity concert 2003
- Faces 2003, 2009 -Floating Cockroach Festival II 2008
- Shetland Blues Festival (UK) 2008 -Summertime Blues 2008
- Kaavi Blues 2008 -Dundee Blues Bonanza (UK) 2008
- Savonsolmu Blues Festival 2008 -Le Blues Autour du Zinc (France) 2009, 2010
- Blues News 40 years – cavalcade 2008 - Deep Blues Festival (USA) 2009 - Helsinki Blues Festival 2010
Gigs in France, USA, Germany, Italy, Czech Rep, Brazil, Nepal, UK, Estonia, Latvia, Poland…
Reviews, articles and interviews in dozens of international magazines and newspapers.
Radio stations in 25 different countries have played the CDs
Live TV and radio performances and interviews:
-Finland, Italy, Brazil, Nepal, Poland, USA…
Black River Bluesman and the Croaking Lizard play their Blues in the deep woods and frozen swamps of the muddy Black River Delta way up North in cold Finland. Their unrefined, electric and hypnotic Blues have been compared to the rough sounds of the Mississippi Hill Country artists as well as to anything between Tom Waits and Jim Morrison or psychoblues and garage. Whatever the influences may be, they play their animal Blues with no compromises - just the way they feel. Black River Bluesman now has his solo career too, playing his Lowebow cigar box guitars: a mean double-necker baritone machine and a 4-string Purgatory Hill cigar Box guitar. Plugged in two amps the cigar box makes the noise of a whole band.
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