Colin Linden

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Monday, October 18th, 2010
8:00 PM

Colin Linden wears more hats than you�d find at a Royal wedding, and we�re not just talking about the trademark big black hat he favours on and offstage. This musical renaissance man is indeed a multiple threat - as a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer. He is in major demand by artists wanting him to produce, write for, and/or play on their records (he has played on 300 and produced 60 albums), yet somehow finds time to both pursue a prolific solo career and play a key role in Canadian roots-rock �supergroup� Blackie and the Rodeo Kings.

If forced at the proverbial gunpoint to come up with just one self-defining phrase, chances are he�d come up with�bluesman.� The form that first stirred Colin�s musical soul nearly four decades ago sustains him still. easin�back to tennessee, his tenth solo album, represents the fullest consummation of a lifelong love affair.

�I�ve been playing country blues, �20s style acoustic blues, since I was a really little kid,� the 45-year-old Linden explains. �When I was 11, I met [electric blues pioneer] Howlin� Wolf. One of the things he said to me that really got me onto this path was that �if you want to play this kind of music you should listen to the people I listened to.� He told me about Charlie Patton and Son House and that generation of artists. That was like opening the biggest door in the world for me, so I just dug in deep. I listened to it and have been playing it seriously for 32 years now.�

Colin�s thorough and committed exploration of the blues is, he explains, �at the core of everything I do. If I�m playing guitar on a Lee Ann Womack record or playing with Bruce Cockburn, I�m still thinking of Son House and Charlie Patton and Blind Blake. That is the foundation, the deepest root for everything that I do.�

http://www.colinlinden.com/

And... as a special guest...Justin Rutledge!