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Artist
Doghouse Sam & His Magnatones
12+ albums
bluesrawbluesrockbelgianharmonica blues
about
Vocalist, guitarist and blues-harp player extraordinaire, Wouter "Doghouse Sam" Celis, previously made his mark with the highly acclaimed Blues-band The Rhythm Bombs, with whom he played more than 500 gigs around Europe during the past few years. Now Doghouse Sam returns, backed by his Magnatones, he unleashes his debut album produced by Mischa den Haring of T-99 fame. "Buddha Blue", is an outstanding collection of pure and raw Blues, accurately reflecting the band’s high-energy live performances. An upright bass, drums and a hollow-body guitar, are this band’s tools of their trade. Instruments with which they scrape the music back to the bare essentials, playing their Blues pure and raw; hardly leaving meat on the bone. Sam; an aficionado of vintage hollow-body electric guitars, was originally influenced by players such as Rick Holmstrom, Junior Watson, Anders Lewén (the guy that wrote "Memphis Guitar Soul" for the very successful video game "Shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Vietnam"), Alex Schultz, Jonas Göransson (who played with Chip Taylor and Mike Sanchez), and Danny Kordelius – not exactly your typical household-guitarist names, but hey, by now you’ve caught on that Sam is a different kind of cat…huh…dog! Over time Sam has developed a playing-style very much his own now, and his wailing harmonica and distinctive voice furthermore confirm him as a talented multi–instrumentalist and Bluesman "pur-sang". And by the way - he writes all the band’s material: music and ly
