Duke Robillard Roll With Me (CD)

(Stony Plain Records) 12 tracks, digisleeve

In the early 2000s I got the OK to make a new blues album for Stony Plain. Somehow, after recording nine hot blues tracks, a new album concept came to me, so we started another album session. I said we would return to the blues album soon after finishing the new project. As sometimes happens, we were busy with gigs, touring and life.

The early blues album we had recorded kept getting put aside and we kept coming up with new album concepts within months of the release of the last album. Finally, after two decades and dozens of recordings, we got to the point where it was time for my last Stony Plain album.

All along I knew we had to get back to the album we started with in 2005. I knew those tracks were really strong, but until I listened to them again, I didn't realize how strong they really were. ~ Duke Robillard.

Duke Robillard is a veteran blues artist who started his career in 1967 with A Roomful of Blues, joined the Fabulous Thunderbirds, played with the Legendary Blues Band, was one-third of the New Guitar Summit, leads his own band and continues to do solo shows in his 75th year. With 37 albums of his own and contributions to dozens more with other artists, Duke is a master of blues, swing, jump blues and jazz and has twice won the WC Handy Award for Best Blues Guitarist.

He is a two-time Grammy nominee, has won 4 Blues Awards for Best Guitarist, 4 Maple Blues Awards for International Artist, the Keeping The Blues Alive Award for Record Production, and is ranked among the world's top blues artists by Downbeat and Living Blues.

As a session guitarist and producer, Duke has recorded with Bob Dylan, John Hammond, Ruth Brown, Billy Boy Arnold, Rosco Gordon, Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon, Maria Muldaur, Pinetop Perkins, Joe Louis Walker, Johnny Adams and many others.