FCCJ Tokyo- Saturday Night Live Music Committee

[Rambling Steve Gardner]

The Foreign Correspondent’s Club Of Japan wrote, “Every once in a great while a performer comes along who not only perfects his musical genre, but becomes a walking personification of it as well. Steve Gardner not only sings Mississippi Delta Blues, he IS that musical art form, the real deal. Steve grew up in Mississippi and learned from many of the blues masters. He brings an authenticity to the Tokyo live music scene which is rare and historically accurate. The blues, Mississippi blues from the American South, are personal stories of love, broken dreams, gambling, drinking, good and hard times and lives and life times spent working endless, hard jobs. Steve Gardner tells these stories while he plays a National steel guitar and runs a brass slider or glass bottleneck over the strings in order to get that traditional blues bottleneck sound. Incidentally the name his band is the Bottleneck Blues Band, taken from his style of blues. Steve Gardner is a focused purist and it is his greatest strength as a performer and blues man.
His CD’s include Rambling With The Blues, Big Delta Crossing, Jessie Mae Hemphill And Friends and his latest release on Blues Cat Records, JERICHO.
Steve Gardner is also an accomplished photographer as seen in his impressive coffee table book, Rambling Mind , a fine collection of revealing and candid B&W photographs of the blues and many of its pioneering players rambling from the Mississippi Delta to the southern piney woods.
Be sure an catch Steve Gardner live at the club or around town. He is the real blues from Mississippi.”
FCCJ Tokyo- Saturday Night Live Music Committee