"That's not a slide on Roy Rogers' pinky, it's a time machine. With it, Rogers transports you to the Mississippi Delta's past and future." - Guitar Player
"He absolutely shredded that crowd [at New Orleans Jazz Fest].....and me too - the guy is frightening!" - Bonnie Raitt
"This is the album of a lifetime, the distillation of everything that has made Roy Rogers such an important blues artist over the years. The slide work is superb and the band rocks with white hot intensity. A masterpiece." - John Swenson, Author, Rolling Stone, Elmore, Stereophile
"The guitar master is one of the greatest slide guitar players anywhere." - San Francisco Chronicle
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Virtuoso slide guitarist and Grammy nominated songwriter/producer and recording artist Roy Rogers remains defiantly upbeat on his 12th solo album Into the Wild Blue.
Even though 64 year-old Rogers has lost longtime friends like blues legend John Lee Hooker, his recent recording partner of eight years, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, as well as his younger brother Robert -- he says "life's too short" to wallow in our grief or what we have lost. "I want to celebrate life through my music."
Into the Wild Blue wails, squawks, stomps and boogies with authenticity -- ready for the open road and the live stage. Years of working with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Sammy Hagar and Steve Miller has given him a pop musicality.
"I'm the guy that always likes to push the envelope," Rogers says, at home in Northern California. "We cover a lot of ground on this record."
Rogers says he had no "master plan" for the 12th addition to his solo catalog. "It's just putting one foot in front of the other." Yet Into the Wild Blue demonstrates a master's confidence and vision.
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Born in Redding, California in 1950, Roy began playing guitar at twelve years of age. A year later at age 13, he was performing in a rock 'n' roll band that wore gold lame jackets and played Little Richard and Chuck Berry tunes. He discovered the great blues players early on, especially when his older brother brought home an album by Robert Johnson. Thus began his love of the blues, slide guitar in particular, which had an immediate effect on Roy, who was indeed named after the King of the Cowboys. Through the years he developed a distinctive style of playing slide guitar that not only emerged, but one that is instantly recognizable.
Roy performed with various groups until 1976, when he and harmonica player David Burgin formed an acoustic duo and recorded an album Rogers And Burgin: A Foot In The Door for Waterhouse Records. They also played on the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest movie soundtrack before the duet ran it's course. Rogers then formed his own band in 1980, the Delta Rhythm Kings, hit the club circuit, played a few more movie and television gigs, and toured Europe with the 1982 San Francisco Blues Festival Revue (recording an album with that Revue in Paris).
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"He absolutely shredded that crowd [at New Orleans Jazz Fest].....and me too - the guy is frightening!" - Bonnie Raitt
"This is the album of a lifetime, the distillation of everything that has made Roy Rogers such an important blues artist over the years. The slide work is superb and the band rocks with white hot intensity. A masterpiece." - John Swenson, Author, Rolling Stone, Elmore, Stereophile
"The guitar master is one of the greatest slide guitar players anywhere." - San Francisco Chronicle
~~~~~~~~
Virtuoso slide guitarist and Grammy nominated songwriter/producer and recording artist Roy Rogers remains defiantly upbeat on his 12th solo album Into the Wild Blue.
Even though 64 year-old Rogers has lost longtime friends like blues legend John Lee Hooker, his recent recording partner of eight years, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, as well as his younger brother Robert -- he says "life's too short" to wallow in our grief or what we have lost. "I want to celebrate life through my music."
Into the Wild Blue wails, squawks, stomps and boogies with authenticity -- ready for the open road and the live stage. Years of working with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Sammy Hagar and Steve Miller has given him a pop musicality.
"I'm the guy that always likes to push the envelope," Rogers says, at home in Northern California. "We cover a lot of ground on this record."
Rogers says he had no "master plan" for the 12th addition to his solo catalog. "It's just putting one foot in front of the other." Yet Into the Wild Blue demonstrates a master's confidence and vision.
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Born in Redding, California in 1950, Roy began playing guitar at twelve years of age. A year later at age 13, he was performing in a rock 'n' roll band that wore gold lame jackets and played Little Richard and Chuck Berry tunes. He discovered the great blues players early on, especially when his older brother brought home an album by Robert Johnson. Thus began his love of the blues, slide guitar in particular, which had an immediate effect on Roy, who was indeed named after the King of the Cowboys. Through the years he developed a distinctive style of playing slide guitar that not only emerged, but one that is instantly recognizable.
Roy performed with various groups until 1976, when he and harmonica player David Burgin formed an acoustic duo and recorded an album Rogers And Burgin: A Foot In The Door for Waterhouse Records. They also played on the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest movie soundtrack before the duet ran it's course. Rogers then formed his own band in 1980, the Delta Rhythm Kings, hit the club circuit, played a few more movie and television gigs, and toured Europe with the 1982 San Francisco Blues Festival Revue (recording an album with that Revue in Paris).
"That's not a slide on Roy Rogers' pinky, it's a time machine. With it, Rogers transports you to the Mississippi Delta's past and future." - Guitar Player
"He absolutely shredded that crowd [at New Orleans Jazz Fest].....and me too - the guy is frightening!" - Bonnie Raitt
"This is the album of a lifetime, the distillation of everything that has made Roy Rogers such an important blues artist over the years. The slide work is superb and the band rocks with white hot intensity. A masterpiece." - John Swenson, Author, Rolling Stone, Elmore, Stereophile
"The guitar master is one of the greatest slide guitar players anywhere." - San Francisco Chronicle
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Virtuoso slide guitarist and Grammy nominated songwriter/producer and recording artist Roy Rogers remains defiantly upbeat on his 12th solo album Into the Wild Blue.
Even though 64 year-old Rogers has lost longtime friends like blues legend John Lee Hooker, his recent recording partner of eight years, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, as well as his younger brother Robert -- he says "life's too short" to wallow in our grief or what we have lost. "I want to celebrate life through my music."
Into the Wild Blue wails, squawks, stomps and boogies with authenticity -- ready for the open road and the live stage. Years of working with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Sammy Hagar and Steve Miller has given him a pop musicality.
"I'm the guy that always likes to push the envelope," Rogers says, at home in Northern California. "We cover a lot of ground on this record."
Rogers says he had no "master plan" for the 12th addition to his solo catalog. "It's just putting one foot in front of the other." Yet Into the Wild Blue demonstrates a master's confidence and vision.
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Born in Redding, California in 1950, Roy began playing guitar at twelve years of age. A year later at age 13, he was performing in a rock 'n' roll band that wore gold lame jackets and played Little Richard and Chuck Berry tunes. He discovered the great blues players early on, especially when his older brother brought home an album by Robert Johnson. Thus began his love of the blues, slide guitar in particular, which had an immediate effect on Roy, who was indeed named after the King of the Cowboys. Through the years he developed a distinctive style of playing slide guitar that not only emerged, but one that is instantly recognizable.
Roy performed with various groups until 1976, when he and harmonica player David Burgin formed an acoustic duo and recorded an album Rogers And Burgin: A Foot In The Door for Waterhouse Records. They also played on the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest movie soundtrack before the duet ran it's course. Rogers then formed his own band in 1980, the Delta Rhythm Kings, hit the club circuit, played a few more movie and television gigs, and toured Europe with the 1982 San Francisco Blues Festival Revue (recording an album with that Revue in Paris).
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"He absolutely shredded that crowd [at New Orleans Jazz Fest].....and me too - the guy is frightening!" - Bonnie Raitt
"This is the album of a lifetime, the distillation of everything that has made Roy Rogers such an important blues artist over the years. The slide work is superb and the band rocks with white hot intensity. A masterpiece." - John Swenson, Author, Rolling Stone, Elmore, Stereophile
"The guitar master is one of the greatest slide guitar players anywhere." - San Francisco Chronicle
~~~~~~~~
Virtuoso slide guitarist and Grammy nominated songwriter/producer and recording artist Roy Rogers remains defiantly upbeat on his 12th solo album Into the Wild Blue.
Even though 64 year-old Rogers has lost longtime friends like blues legend John Lee Hooker, his recent recording partner of eight years, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, as well as his younger brother Robert -- he says "life's too short" to wallow in our grief or what we have lost. "I want to celebrate life through my music."
Into the Wild Blue wails, squawks, stomps and boogies with authenticity -- ready for the open road and the live stage. Years of working with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, Sammy Hagar and Steve Miller has given him a pop musicality.
"I'm the guy that always likes to push the envelope," Rogers says, at home in Northern California. "We cover a lot of ground on this record."
Rogers says he had no "master plan" for the 12th addition to his solo catalog. "It's just putting one foot in front of the other." Yet Into the Wild Blue demonstrates a master's confidence and vision.
~~~~~~~~
Born in Redding, California in 1950, Roy began playing guitar at twelve years of age. A year later at age 13, he was performing in a rock 'n' roll band that wore gold lame jackets and played Little Richard and Chuck Berry tunes. He discovered the great blues players early on, especially when his older brother brought home an album by Robert Johnson. Thus began his love of the blues, slide guitar in particular, which had an immediate effect on Roy, who was indeed named after the King of the Cowboys. Through the years he developed a distinctive style of playing slide guitar that not only emerged, but one that is instantly recognizable.
Roy performed with various groups until 1976, when he and harmonica player David Burgin formed an acoustic duo and recorded an album Rogers And Burgin: A Foot In The Door for Waterhouse Records. They also played on the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest movie soundtrack before the duet ran it's course. Rogers then formed his own band in 1980, the Delta Rhythm Kings, hit the club circuit, played a few more movie and television gigs, and toured Europe with the 1982 San Francisco Blues Festival Revue (recording an album with that Revue in Paris).
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