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B-J Hegen Blues Band
2+ albums
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Below was translated from Dutch to English using the 'Google Translator' application. The original text can be read here: Vanpan.nl - B.J. Hegen Blues Band Chicago Blues The Drentse Bluesband BJ Hegen (Assen 1942) is one of the few musicians who still dares to make blues music in a time of blues rock and all sorts of blues music as originally intended and according to tradition. BJ Hegen blues guitarist, singer, painter and cartoonist knows a changing musical career over a period of more than 50 years. BJ Hegen's musical journey dates back to the 1960s. Influenced by the then current musical norms he initially surrendered to pop music. In the meantime, he also came into contact with the blues and he was particularly attracted by the chicago style interpreters, including favorite exponents such as Johnny Young and John Little John. BJ studied the Chicago style and eventually went back to the archetypal primal forms of the blues. It was these influences that made him decide to definitively move to a formable blues band under his own name in the seventies. His band accompanied American artists such as Eddy Burns and Eddie C. Campbell during tours throughout Europe. In the 80s he and his Band provided the support act for BB King in The Hague. Hegen is an excellent documented expert on the blues, and Chicagoblues in particular to which he brings his own interpretation on stage. In Jan Warntjes (Drieborg, 1942) he has found his regular pianist for years. Warntjes learned the b
