Mississippi Roots and Bluesman Rambling Steve Gardner profile

[Rambling Steve Gardner]

Mississippi Roots and Bluesman Rambling Steve Gardner, based in Tokyo, Japan, plays original, acoustic roots and country blues music; finger picking and slide on National Reso-phonic guitars, with harmonica, banjo, washboard and a variety of hand made instruments. He combines his music and story telling into a musical journey through the history of American music from the early 1800’s up to the 1950’s. He touches on some of the important lives, times, events and people that helped shape American music through its many forms from

broadsides and

 

ballads, spirituals, blues, folk, jazz, rock’n roll and beyond. American Roots 'N Blues at its best.

 

Rambling Steve Gardner plays and tours Japan, where many of his tours have been sponsored by the Cultural Affairs section of the United States, Department of State as well as  several Universities in Japan including Meiji University, Waseda University, Meiji Gakuin University. He also tours in: Singapore, Indonesia, Austria, Germany and the South-eastern United States. Rambling Steve Gardner plays solo and with the JERICHO ROAD SHOW. 

Growing up down in Mississippi, Rambling Steve  Gardner heard, learned from and sometimes played with blues greats: Sam Chatmon, Booby Barnes, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Jack Owens, Frank Frost to name but a few. On tour in Austria he opened shows for Kim Wilson and The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mojo Bufford, Shemekia Copeland; in Japan, Gate Mouth Brown, Howard Tate, Jimmy and Eddie Burns,  Jimmy Dawkins, Corey Harris, Harmonica Shaw. In the U.S. he plays and records with Washboard Chaz, of Play For Change along with Bill Steber of the Jake Leg Stompers.

CDs to date by Rambling Steve Gardner include his latest and sixth release on Blues Cat Records(2012), HESITATION BLUES, which follows WOOLY BULLY EXPRESS (2010) and WALKING THE  DOG (2009) both with the JERICHO ROAD SHOW along with JERICHO (2007),  Big Delta Crossing (2005) , Rambling With The Blues (2002).

Rambling Steve Gardner is  featured in the DVD/Double CD, Jessie Mae Hemphill and Friends, Dare You To Do It Again (2004).

“Walkin’ The Dog” was chosen by New Orleans community radio WWOZ as one of the top ten best releases in for 2009. “Been On The Job Too Long”, Rambling Steve Gardner’s original tune off of  JERICHO was nominated for Best Political Song of the Year (2008) by The Just Plain Folks international music awards, Nashville, TN.

Rambling Steve Gardner graduated from the University of Southern MS., BA in Journalism. He came to Japan in 1980 and had worked in music and photography since. He divides his time between Japan and touring in the USA and Europe. 

* Press Quotes *   

...the gut power of Delta blues has had fewer finer exponent than Steve 

Gardner.” Michael Pronko- The Japan Times 

 

“Steve Gardner...story teller, singer, bluesman... blues originale.” Dietmar 

Hoscher- CONCERTO magazine 

 

Steve and his guys bring the best of the back porch to the front of the big 

stage” Peggy Lou WWOZ community radio, New Orleans  

 

I hear cotton fields, Tom Sawyer, the Mississippi River and the great 

American open road.” BIG BIKE CRUSING Magazine 

 

“Steve Gardner rambles the lost highways of Hank Williams and Jimmy 

Rogers as easily as the delta of the Mississippi blues men.” Radio Tokyo, 

Norio Higashi 

 

 

For more information: www.stevegardner.info  

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