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Erin Harpe & The Delta Swingers
Erin Harpe has been called one of the most dynamic, talented and exciting roots rocking blues women on the scene by Living Blues Magazine. Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers, her Boston Music Award-winning band, just released their second full-length album entitled BIG ROAD out on VizzTone! The self-produced album highlights Erins diverse influences, from her roots in acoustic delta and piedmont blues, to her electric side slide guitar, boogie blues, funk, and soul.
In the time since the bands debut album Love Whip Blues (produced by Dave Gross) Erin and the band have been touring the country nonstop honing their craft, and making plenty of new fans. Theyve driven countless miles (Erin behind the wheel) and had numerous adventures, and also (as you can imagine) trials, along the way. Subsequently, Erin has emerged into the limelight, taking on a more direct role as producer and playing lead guitar. Big Road is an apt name for her new, self-produced album. It describes where she and the band have been, traveling the highways and back roads, bringing people joy through their music. Its also the name of Erins favorite Tommy Johnson song, Big Road Blues, the one that Billy Gibbons said he liked her arrangement of when she opened for ZZ Top!
Its the album Ive always wanted to make, explains Erin, an authentic live-sounding set of songs, centered around my guitar playing, which is at the root of my music from acoustic finger-picking, to electric slide guitar, to wah-wah fueled funk, with a few guitar solos thrown in. The album was recorded (and mixed) in just 6 days by Pete Weiss at Verdant Studio, during a snowstorm in southern Vermont, and features Jim Countryman on bass guitar and ukulele bass, Matt Charles Prozialeck on harmonica, and Kendall Divoll on drums and percussion, with a little organ and accordion added by their friend Michael Casavant.
International Blues Challenge Semi-finalists (2017, 2013, 2011)
Boston Music Award Winners Blues Act of the Year (2012)
Boston Blues Challenge Competition Winners (2015, 2014, 2012, 2010)
Boston Music Award nominees (2012, 2011, 2010)
Recognized along with Bonnie Raitt, Susan Tedeschi, Shemekia Copeland, Rory Block, and Ana Popovic in Alternate Route Magazine's 30 Woman Burning Up the Blues
As a young girl, Annapolis, Marylandnative Erin Harpe learned the blues literally at the feet of the African American blues players of the Washington, D.C. acoustic scene. Her father, visual artist and guitarist Neil Harpe, was a mainstay at the famed Archies Barbershop where he rubbed shoulders with the likes of Archie Edwards, John Cephas, Phil Wiggins and John Jackson. Erin grew up as a friend to all, picking up the true blues from early on. Her father, Neil, is internationally renowned among guitarists as a Stella expert and purveyor of fine old time guitars. Frank Matheis, Living Blues Magazine
Erin's soulful vocal style and accomplished finger-picking guitar playing has earned her many fans, including guitar great Ronnie Earl, and she is quickly becoming recognized on the international blues scene. In fact, Erin completed her first European tour in Spring 2014 and is planning to head back overseas in the next year.
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LocationJohn Henry's Hammer Coffeehouse / 1st U. Church of Worcester (View)
90 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01608
United States
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