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Ian Siegal releases new live video for “Hard Pressed” (Live & Extended);Available exclusively as a free MP3 download with the CD & Vinyl editions of the forthcoming live album “One Night in Amsterdam”
Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist Ian Siegal has premiered the new live video recording of “Hard Pressed” from his upcoming live album “One Night In Amsterdam” released March 9 on Nugene Records. The track is available exclusively as a free download with the CD and Vinyl editions of “One Night In Amsterdam”.
In 2014 Siegal won Mojo’s “Best Blues Album” Award, and described him as “One of the most innovative, gifted and engaging blues performers on the planet today.” To support “One Night In Amsterdam”, Siegal will embark on a 12-date UK tour starting March 17 at Chester Live Rooms.
Ian Siegal is known as a bluesman, but it’s just one shade in the palette of an artiste who slips between continents, eras and expectations. They say you can’t sing the blues until you’ve lived the life, and when Ian Siegal steps up to the mic, you can hear the slings and arrows. Recent years have seen the songwriter catch fire, with British Blues Awards raining down and consecutive nominations in 2012 & 2013 for Contemporary Album of The Year in the Blues Music Awards – in effect, the Grammys of the Blues.
Ian was born in 1971 in Hampshire. It has been said that had he been performing and recording in the sixties he would today be accorded the same reverence as artists such as Van Morrison and Joe Cocker. Instead, he dropped out of Art College in the late eighties to go busking in Germany. From the streets of Berlin he progressed to clubs around Nottingham, then to London and ultimately to major stages around Europe.
Siegal’s forte is playing to an audience. Whether fronting his band, or alone with just an old acoustic guitar, he takes command of the stage in a way very few artistes alive today can match. Sweat, passion, humour, balls-to-the-wind slide guitar and a soul-infused voice big enough to fell trees! And as his BBC-recorded 2014 solo release MAN & GUITAR shows, he has a neat line in between-songs banter and humour.
His career got under way in 2003/04 with two successive European tours as the opening act for ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings (Wyman also invited Ian to record with the Rhythm Kings). This was followed by UK tours as a duo with Big Bill Morganfield (son of Muddy Waters). During this time Siegal was also capturing the hearts of audiences in Holland, Belgium, Austria and Hungary. In 2005 he topped the Soul/Blues/Jazz charts in Holland. And hasn’t looked back.
MARCH 2015 UK TOUR DATES
CHESTER LIVE ROOMS TUES 17
GLASGOW STEREO WED 18
ABERDEEN JAZZ FESTIVAL THURS 19
HARROGATE RIPLEY BLUES FRI 20
DERBY FLOWERPOT SAT 21
SCARBOROUGH TOP SECRET BLUES FESTIVAL SUN 22
NEWCASTLE CLUNY TUES 24
BOLTON RAILWAY WED 25
BRISTOL TUNNELS THURS 26
NORWICH ARTS CENTRE FRI 27
LONDON JAZZ CAFÉ SAT 28
SOUTHAMPTON TALKING HEADS SUN 29
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