Blues de Garrafa
Blues de Garrafa
Genres: blues, guitar, slide guitar, blues rock, guitar blues
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About Blues de Garrafa
Genre: Blues / R&B Location Granada, Granada, Es Type of Label Unsigned Bio (translated to English using the Bing translator) Joaquín Sánchez López, was born in Granada (Spain). He began playing the guitar at the age of 25 years with a great illusion, which later became his profession (guitarist). Is in the black genre (BLUES) where it is recognized and discovers a few pure feelings that sprout from the soul, feature is, that part of the suffering and gait of blacks in the Mississippi Delta. Blues sings to slavery and cry freedom, and Joaquín is identified now throughout his life with this genre... In 1990, he recorded his first LP with the band of the BLUES BAND DE GRANADA, Joaquín being one of the founders of the group. On this album the Blues Band presents 8 topics where JOAQUIN SANCHEZ, with his guitars (acoustic and electric), harmonica, Bottleneck, participates as an author and co-author... Author: Best blues in the city, that gives title to the album. Co-author: Whisky in my coffee, Blues, sweat and Tears, Sweet little angel (adapted from B.B.King), Staggolee (of topic traditional Staggolee) where he participated actively in arrangements and adaptation. During this time conducted tours, concerts and festivals: • in Getxo (Bilbao), sharing stage with LOUISIANA RED and EDDY C. CAMPBELL, • Prime Festival of Blues Villa Madrid (Sala Galileo-Galilei), with the participation of 7 of the best national groups of the Blues, Blues Festival, Cazorla (Jaén) • has been support of great artists in the Festival de Jazz de Granada with Johnny Winter and Johnny Clay Copeland. • Festival of Antequera Blues... As the BLUES, a genre of deep feelings and the need for express it in more direct ways, musicians found the heat húmano, playing different premises of the Spanish geography... JOAQUIN SANCHEZ, artist of concerns decides to evolve in this genre, leaves the Group and founded a new formation, called BLUES DE CARAFE, with which he recorded a single, in the studies Quirios (Madrid) with the invaluable help of Luis Calleja (technician of sound, who accompanied on their tours to groups such as wood and others of the move of the National Rock) and Luis Cobos Manglis, as producer artistico (electric guitarist of Triana and Arrajatabla with Raimundo Amador.) Burn a CD in the studies Bernardi (Armilla-Granada) and edited in the Antequera Records (Málaga) studies. Their participation in the grouping is as guitarist (acoustic, electric), harmonica, bottleneck. The CD contains 10 songs, to which JOAQUIN SANCHEZ is author of Lazy Man (acoustic), So many times (electric), Smoking (acoustic) and co-author of Whisky in my coffee, Pig smile, Back to The mountain, Rumblin to me mind, It's around the mid night... The Group on their journey took part in the Festival de Jazz de Granada, opening to MIKE TAYLOR (Old Star Blues Band), a former component of the Rolling Stones in concert the Industrial Copera in Granada Hall, returns to depite to Jhonny Clay Copeland. Following in the line of direct contact with the public, organises bottle BLUES numerous tours through the national territory. The sensitivity that Joaquin, feel toward this genre, so heading towards an address seeking a mature, and own personality to express perceived Blues and risked everything and it is presented with his experience alone, playing with bands occasional and chosen carefully for each concert. In 2000, he toured in Belgium, Holland, and Germany, with the hispano-belga band "Dizzy Simples" and with which he recorded a CD (Belgium) live in the local T, Kauske. Tocarón in local Hotel, The Willen Tell Blues Club, ST-Lenaarts Jar Kercboon bij Ford in Genk (Belgium), The Blues Corner (Düsseldorf - Germany), The Blues Cafe in Apeldoorm (the Netherlands) and other concerts and 2004 with this band toured another Spain by different premises. It is support of John Mayall and Joe Satriani (Palacio de Congresos of Granada). In 2001, JOAQUIN SANCHEZ recorded live at the famous restaurant "Alexis Friday" of Santa Fe (Granada), a CD with the participation of the technician of sound Carlos JB, close friend and great Rock guitarist and doing the production, recording, mixing and cover design. This CD has a content themed own and traditional BLUES. TOBACCO blues of the Genil Vegas Festival, he participated as JOAQUIN SANCHEZ BAND, sharing stage with BEBO VALDÉS, Otis Grand, Dr. Feelgood. Acoustic he has played with different musicians and instrumentalists (SAX, harmonica, guitarras…) in the tobacco Blues Festival (Vegas del Genil) and again share poster with Johnny Winter, Antequera (Blues Festival), in Estepona (Málaga), sharing stage with Jane Carroll and the Cazorla Blues Festival in duo with harmonica and great colleague and friend Manuel Moreno.
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