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Rick Holmstrom
12+ albums
bluesblues rockUSAguitarWest Coast Blues
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Rick Holmstrom You might not expect to hear a twenty year veteran of the blues and roots scene say: "After all the time I've spent making records in front of computers, it was a blast to rip one out old school again." But things are not always as they seem and Rick Holmstrom is not your average guitarist. This is the guy, after all, whose last record is frequently heralded as one of the most innovative blues & roots releases of the last few decades. After blowing the gray felt fedoras off of hidebound blues purists everywhere with his sample-drenched, jump blues-meets-breakbeats Hydraulic Groove (2002), Holmstrom has in some ways come back to his roots with Late In The Night. Recorded, mixed and mastered in less than 2 weeks. Late... is, according to Holmstrom: "The sound of me left to my own devices." Holmstrom tells it: "Yeah, it's been nearly five years since Hydraulic came out, so naturally folks must think I've been sitting around eating cheeze whiz and watching Conan re-runs. Sounds good, but that's not the story. I've been plenty busy. In fact, Late... is the fifth record I've worked on since Hydraulic Groove came out. First, I got about half way through a super-raw garage recording back in 2003, then I spent countless hours on computers with Genome (his collaborator on Hydraulic Groove) working on a Hydraulic Groove follow up, then I started another all instrumental record, then in early January 2006 we recorded a live record that was slated to come out in spring 2
