So here it is, Guitar Man – Live, the long awaited new album by the leading Texas blues man, SHERMAN ROBERTSON. It’s been a long while coming but Sherman has not been idle in the intervening years.

Aside from gigging relentlessly across the States, Sherman has spent the last three years in the company of his European tour band BluesMove (Julian Grudgings – keyboards, John Moloney – bass and Mike Hellier – drums) road testing his songs, working up his famous funky soulful blues groove, and re-igniting audiences across Europe with his unique brand of Loutex: a potent gumbo derived of Louisiana Cajun and a kick-ass Texas blues groove.

Not since the days of the late Albert Collins and the rise of Robert Cray has such a convincing guitar/vocal talent lent itself to the blues genre with such passion and conviction.

The new album is, in effect, the continuation of an exciting recording career that matured under the watchful eye of Cajun star Clifton Chenier and hit pay dirt with the million selling album ‘Graceland’, on which Paul Simon asked Sherman to contribute guitar.

Following this, he went to record a brace of solid-selling solo albums that delivered commercial success but at the price of stifling his real on-stage persona.

Guitar Man – Live isn’t so much a comeback album as a timely rekindling of the fire of a talent that has still so much to offer.

So if you’d like to see some of the best soul-blues, potent singing with sizzling guitar, then catch him live on tour backed by BluesMove for some UK gigs in November.

SHERMAN ROBERTSON & BLUESMOVE – “GUITAR MAN – LIVE”

Movinmusic Records - Cat. No MM001