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Artist
China Blue
12+ albums
AORmelodic rockhard rockheavy metalmelodic hard rock
about
China Blue is the folk and acoustic rock band formed by Ian Mauldin of the Atlanta band, Freezerburn, and features a rotating cast of friends and supporting musicians. The first release The Skeleton Tree (2011) was released on Ian's own record label, Silver Wreath Records. Bio for China Blue the Hard Rock/ Metal band: In the late 80’s keyboardist Eric Ragno (Takara, Ted Poley, Steve Grimmett, American Angel, Danny Vaughn, Hugo/Ramos and countless others) started a new band called China Blue with his best friend Tom Gasbarro. Eric wrote the music and Tom was the lyrical engineer. The songs written at the time used to explore those avenues of defining moments...decisions that were made in the “Twilight of Destiny”. According to Eric, “It is where you either won the girl or lost it all in a sea of regret; the pivotal epiphany that the thing you love most just got away. We did things on our own terms and even after Tom moved on, I swore I would pick it up again one day”. Eric’s career gained momentum with bands like Vox Tempus and moved in a different directions until he played some of the old China Blue demos to his friend Michael Riesenbeck. Michael encouraged Eric to take the best out of the songs and add new material to round out a complete album. He and Eric co-wrote some great songs together and he pushed Eric to start the job to put together a recording line-up for the album and just go out and do his own thing. On vocals, Eric recruited none other than the new TNT an
