Delta Echoes – a duo which re-creates the country blues of the 1920s and 30s, played on acoustic and National steel guitars (most of them older than their players!), harmonica and kazoo. You can listen to samples of their music at www.lemonrock.com/deltaechoes
Richard Scruton, of “Rich Pickings” fame, is already well known on the local folk and blues scene and is an authentic interpreter of the guitar picking of the great Delta bluesmen – Charley Patton, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson and Reverend Robert Wilkins to name just a few.
“Stuart Cumberpatch has been playing lap style and bottleneck style blues slide on National guitars for most of the past twenty years. During that time he spent ten years playing slide in the legendary Kennet Sheiks, whose album ‘The Kennet Sheiks’ is one of the best traditional blues/hokum/old time albums you are likely to hear.
His playing is very accomplished and sensitive and sits in the territory occupied by people like Oscar Woods, Black Ace, Weaver & Beasley, Casey Bill Weldon and Washington Phillips.” – Michael Messer.