TOM SHAKA
Tom Shaka es un cantautor de blues estadounidense. En la década de 1970 se mudó a Europa y tocó en el club de jazz de Hamburgo 'Onkel Pö', con músicos como Udo Lindenberg, Louisiana Red, David Honeyboy Edwards, Abi Wallenstein y Al Jarreau.
TOM SHAKA – Mr. Delta Thunder
Tom Shaka, American bluesman Origin, learned to play the guitar at the age of eleven. Born in 1953 in Middletown, Connecticut, he is now regarded as a versatile and virtuoso musician and singer who, in addition to playing the guitar, also playing on the harmonica, the ukulele, the mandolin and the one-string git fiddle. Deeply inspired, among others. by genre pioneers Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and John Lee Hooker started his career in the early 70s when he - on the way to New Orleans - hanging in Nashville, Tennessee Remained. He spent the 80s in the music metropolis Austin, Texas. There are also artists like Ray Charles, Taj Mahal, Snooks Eaglin and especially David "Honeyboy" Edwards and Louisiana Red (he also had a deep friendship with the latter two) which decisively shaped his very personal style have.
Anyone who has ever experienced Tom Shaka on stage knows that he not only plays the blues, but that he lives it. His music is characterized by deep passion and intensity. During Tom plays and sings, stamps his left foot incessantly the rhythm of the songs in the ground. In this way celebrates he the blues; sweaty and rough and always authentic. Today Tom Shaka lives in the Lüneburg Heath in Germany and enjoys an extraordinarily high reputation in the international blues scene. His concert tours have brought him so far across Europe and the United States. The first LP released Tom Shaka 1979. Since then, two LPs and a good dozen CDs have been released. various labels. In 2013 he celebrates his 40th anniversary Stage anniversary and at the same time his 60th birthday.
In October 2012 he presented (after five years Release break) his current and at BLIND LEMON RECORDS released CD "Delta Thunder – The Fieldrecordings". This one, taken by blues researcher and photographer Axel Küstner, CD has not only enjoyed great popularity since its release in the fan community, but was also recognized by the professional world with great Respect received.
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Tom Shaka - Solo-Blues-Master
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