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| Featured Artist Link REALLYMUSICRADIO presentsCOLIN LINDEN
Colin Linden is a man of many talents. Colin is an accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer. He has played on over 150 albums and produced more than 30 CDs. Colin has worked with artists such as Bruce Cockburn, Colin James, Leon Redbone, T-Bone Burnett, and The Band, just to name a few.
Colin began playing acoustic guitar before he turned eight, buying his first guitar from his older brother for $5. Developing a love for the blues at an early age, Colin met his hero, the legendary blues man Howlin' Wolf, a.k.a. Chester Arthur Burnett, at a Yonge Street tavern when Colin was only eleven years old. After begging his mother to take him to the matinee performance, they arrived three hours early at the Colonial Tavern to get a good seat on the balcony. As luck would have it, Howlin' Wolf was having lunch at the side of the stage and Colin walked right up and introduced himself. They spent three hours talking about the blues that afternoon. From that day on, the two developed a friendship that lasted until Wolf died in 1976, and to this day Howlin' Wolf remains Colin's biggest inspiration. A very similar experience presented itself to Colin when he was touring through Regina at the age of seventeen. He met an extremely talented eleven year-old guitarist who shared his love of the blues and immediately latched on to him. Today, we know this young man as Colin James and their friendship and collaboration has lasted for over two decades. Although Colin was born and mostly lives in Canada, he and his wife now spend part of the year in Nashville where Colin's profile is rising considerably. It was there that he received a call from his good friend T-Bone Burnett, who asked him to come to a film set and to teach a young man how to play the blues guitar. Not only did Colin teach the actor how to play, but he also ended up playing a version of "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" that was used in the film! That film is titled 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' Colin performs a version of this song as a bonus track on his latest release titled 'Big Mouth' which will be released in Canada on May 15th, 2001. Big Mouth is Colin's best recording to date! On this new release Colin returns to an old raw-blues style of music, with a few touches of roots-rock. Special guests who join Colin on this album are: Keb' Mo', Lucinda Williams, Jonell Mosser, Bruce Cockburn, Jessie Alexander and Lee Roy Parnell. Colin thinks it will be at least 20 years before people recognize him as a "cool, old, blues guy". However, with his countless contributions, and endless devotion to creating music, Colin is and will always be at the heart of the Canadian music scene. |
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